Colorado 2010 (Post one!)

First, thanks for the comments about the hair! :) Yeah, I want to go darker, but thanks to a ton of ya'lls' (the plural of ya'll is funny. but I'm keeping it.) comments and sleeping on it, I've kinda gotten the mentality "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"... especially before I vacation. I tend to get my hair exactly where I want it and then promptly change it. Soooo maybe some lowlights and then go for the full effects after Maui, when I won't care if it takes 6 mos to get back to blonde again. :) Ah, girls and their hair...

Anyway, soooo yeah so it's been a week since I posted the 2nd half of our trip... My photo uploading is kinda ridiculously behind... *cringe* Do you have a macbook? If so, does it take forever to upload photos to blogger? Mine does. It's annoying. Anyhoo....

COLORADO WEEKEND STARTS HERE!

We landed at the Denver airport and I wanted to find the paintings I read about in the conspiracy theory (I dig conspiracy theory in case ya'll didn't know...It's weird. I love it.) Eric and I were walking back from getting our bags and...WE SAW THEM! <--seriously all-caps-excited! So yeah, pictures happened. Whatever. They're creepy. I mean...right?!

sword-wielding-gas mask-wearing-army-man-killing-dove?! AGH!

Or...the cultural painting of said gas-mask-wearing-man appearing dead?! What.the.heck.
Okay okay...enough of that...

We got our car, headed to the hotel, and then set out on a walk to lunch! Our hotel was in the heart of downtown so well within walking distance of 16th Street Mall, etc. On our walk, we immediately ran into a guy I was friends with in law school! BANANAS! Such a small world, right?

Had a fabulous lunch on a patio (the weather was SO much better there), had a random photographer ask take our photo for "her business." (I haven't looked it up, but our faces are prolly on some triple x site now. Awesome.) After all that, we headed to SHOP.SHOP. SHOP. I teased my boyfriend for being high maintenance finding a ton more things than I did, but it is what it is. Dont you hate it when everything on sale is nowhere near your size? Arg. Whatever. But, still a great time nonetheless.

Went back and got ready for dinner! Made a quick, last minute reservation at a local steak place and set off to walk there...

....til it started raining. Rain + white pants = not good.. haha.. Thank gawd for building awnings. :) 16th street mall view! :)
We got to the restaurant....er....wait...We ordered drinks at what we THOUGHT was the restaurant, but upon seeing no steak on the menu, realized we were in the wrong place.

**Oops**

Exchanged a few "what do we dos?", laughed, drank our beverages, and headed on to the real place... hilarious! Apparently Pr!me Bar and Pr!me Steakhouse are a block apart (who does that?!)...
Ah...at last...Pr!me Steakhouse. Or at least somewhere else named Pr!me that had steaks. Who knows how any more Pr!me places they have in a block radius? ;) *laughter*
Dinner was followed by a walk back to the hotel wrapped in fabulous weather. :)

Our hotel had a cookie buffet with milk and tea every.single.night. Every hotel should adopt this awesome policy/activity. Immediately.
Goooooood morning and rise and shine for some rafting!

I'd never been white water rafting and was absolutely psyched! This was the creek we rafted and that video pretty much had me terrified of every level except beginning....b/c I guess you flip on every other level...and beginner is freaking class 3 rapids for crying out loud! Despite the adrenaline rush of the intermediate level weighing on my brain, we opted for beginner. Something about getting cold/hurt/drowning seemed to make for a bad mental image. ;) Anyway, glad we went for the beginner route b/c it was absolutely perfect! Just enough rapids and plenty of space in between them to take a few pics and relax... Good times. :) And our guide was awesomesauce.

Ready.to.raft. (or rob somewhere, but whatever...the all black wasn't intentional).

Rafts going in the water! (ignore the poor quality of the disposable waterproof camera)
Awesome shot of oblivious me while the guide checks out the raft coming over the rapid we'd just finished...b/c a dude was falling in YIKES!
our guide to the rescue!
This is my sexxy, I-just-rafted pose. (or the "we're waiting on the bus" pose, but whatever)
Same goes for Eric. I make a kissy face. He mocks weaponry with his paddle. Awesome.
We rafted. We have helmets on and life jackets to prove it. :)
Post rafting lunch on the patio (loved eating on the patio.. it's WAY too hot here to do that now).
boiled peanuts. A specialty. They tasted as good as they look. *cringe*
Some exploring and driving around through the little towns.....


scary hole in the creek where rafters get stuck.. Ignore the hot mess hair and please be scared of this rafting hole. It's scary. Dangit. ;)
Our hotel!! :)
All the pics after this are in last week's post! :)

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!