Cheyenne, Wyoming
Last week Christine and I decided we wanted to go to Wyoming. Since Cheyenne is less than 2 hours away, we thought "what the hey? Let's just go!" Why not oming?
So, the morning started with Christine picking me up from Mt. Ypsilon, the lodge where I used my comp night to take two showers and be alone (highly recommend such an endeavor). We drove to the Admin because you gotta check out when you do those comp rooms, you know?, and then we got in the car...where I made a few signs for the window, and Christine did some driving. The country music was ablaze.
We got to Loveland, and we wanted to get an oil change for Christine's car at Jiffy Lube. So we stopped at a Jiffy Lube, where we spent an hour and a half because something was wrong with something in Christine's car. But they were real nice, they gave her a discount on the oil change and didn't charge her for the part they got for it. We talked and watched the news and talked more in that Jiffy Lube. I think I used their bathroom three times. It could've been four, but I think just three.
Then we headed on to Cheyenne. We trashed the car somehow with nutella and pretzels and bag lunches during this two hour period of driving. On 25 we saw a cop drive by with its sirens on, we both paniced a bit and then this happened:
"It's the police" - me
"Good thing we're going twenty under" - Christine
Then we laughed forever.
We were driving and saw this huge bison shaped sign that said nothing on it in the distance.
"What is that? Is it a tree?" - one of us
"is it a bison?" - the other
Then we got to Cheyenne and we were trying to figure out what direction to drive in and Christine said:
"East, North, where are the boots?"
I proceeded to laugh a lot, and write what she'd said down in my journal.
You see, the only thing we could find to do in Cheyenne involved finding eight eight foot cowboy boots scattered throughout the city.
We parked the car, and walked. We stumbled across the State Museum...where there was a boot! So we took our pictures then went into what turned out to be a very very strange museum.
You see, the first thing we saw in the museum, fully encased in a plastic box, so we could not touch it, was a bright green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunch box. We pointed in confusion. The headline read "Today's fad is tomorrow's history"
Amidst a little exhibit with old time cash registers, a dictophone, an old typewriter, a broom making machine, a giant anvil, lie a plastic BigBoy and a Taco Johns Mexican Quencher plastic cup. Okay, what?
Also in an exhibit of old games (like old baseball gloves, sleds, chess sets) lie an atari game system and "dinkie dino" the "virtual pet" where they described it as "owners" who would "feed" their "virtual pet" (even the exhibit used the quotes).
I totally had a virtual pet in high school...pretty sure I killed it somehow.
In an exhibit about celebrations Christine pointed out that a blurb read: "Many Wyomingites celebrate birthdays with a colorful frosted cake." Huh. Also in that exhibt lie a diaper. The blurb read "disposable diapers feature adhesive strips to secure them."
Also, the Wyoming State Flag has a Bison on it.
We then went to the State Capital where the lady their talked forever to us...and then we went and looked at old senate pictures. In some of the really old ones absolutely EVERYONE had a mustache. And they were those curly ones.
Then we went to the bank for a little errand running. Then we walked to this AWESOME book store...
Books were EVERYWHERE, and some were FREE!!! I bought Animal Farm, and Mooch the Messy, and The Witches (Roald Dahl), and that Gnome Book that Paal and I looked at at Jess' friends party before I left for the summer. Then I got like 4 books that were free! They all look like they're going to be good too. Christine got one or two free books as well as The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis for one dollar.
That place was crazy though. Pretty crazy.
Then we went back to the car and got really lost, and out in the middle of nowhere Christine yells "Boot!" and swerves into a parking lot where there was another eight foot boot! So we stopped and took pictures of the boot and were convinced that we got lost for a reason.
Then we searched for cowboy hats. In our search we found this plaza area that had all the other boots. All six of the remainings! We found all eight boots!!! Amazing!
It was like the best day ever.
Then we drove back and stopped at a Shell station where I miraculously found a cowboy hat. Then we stopped at the Dam Store outside of loveland (love it), and there was a cowboy hat for Christine there! So we got our cowboy hats.
Then we drove home, and we got all dressed like cowgirls and went to LT.
But on the drive this happened:
"a tree" - Christine pointing at something in the distance (but her words were kind of incoherent)
"what did you point out?" - me
long pause
"...a tree..." - Christine
laughter
Also while we were wearing the cowboy hats in the car:
"I've never ridden a horse in my life" - Christine
"I never listened to country music before last week" - me
then we both laughed a whole bunch, and realized what giant posers we are
"we just want to be cowgirls because we're in Colorado" - Christine
But, here's the thing. We are cowgirls.
And those songs are mighty catchy and easy to sing along to.
So, the morning started with Christine picking me up from Mt. Ypsilon, the lodge where I used my comp night to take two showers and be alone (highly recommend such an endeavor). We drove to the Admin because you gotta check out when you do those comp rooms, you know?, and then we got in the car...where I made a few signs for the window, and Christine did some driving. The country music was ablaze.
We got to Loveland, and we wanted to get an oil change for Christine's car at Jiffy Lube. So we stopped at a Jiffy Lube, where we spent an hour and a half because something was wrong with something in Christine's car. But they were real nice, they gave her a discount on the oil change and didn't charge her for the part they got for it. We talked and watched the news and talked more in that Jiffy Lube. I think I used their bathroom three times. It could've been four, but I think just three.
Then we headed on to Cheyenne. We trashed the car somehow with nutella and pretzels and bag lunches during this two hour period of driving. On 25 we saw a cop drive by with its sirens on, we both paniced a bit and then this happened:
"It's the police" - me
"Good thing we're going twenty under" - Christine
Then we laughed forever.
We were driving and saw this huge bison shaped sign that said nothing on it in the distance.
"What is that? Is it a tree?" - one of us
"is it a bison?" - the other
Then we got to Cheyenne and we were trying to figure out what direction to drive in and Christine said:
"East, North, where are the boots?"
I proceeded to laugh a lot, and write what she'd said down in my journal.
You see, the only thing we could find to do in Cheyenne involved finding eight eight foot cowboy boots scattered throughout the city.
We parked the car, and walked. We stumbled across the State Museum...where there was a boot! So we took our pictures then went into what turned out to be a very very strange museum.
You see, the first thing we saw in the museum, fully encased in a plastic box, so we could not touch it, was a bright green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunch box. We pointed in confusion. The headline read "Today's fad is tomorrow's history"
Amidst a little exhibit with old time cash registers, a dictophone, an old typewriter, a broom making machine, a giant anvil, lie a plastic BigBoy and a Taco Johns Mexican Quencher plastic cup. Okay, what?
Also in an exhibit of old games (like old baseball gloves, sleds, chess sets) lie an atari game system and "dinkie dino" the "virtual pet" where they described it as "owners" who would "feed" their "virtual pet" (even the exhibit used the quotes).
I totally had a virtual pet in high school...pretty sure I killed it somehow.
In an exhibit about celebrations Christine pointed out that a blurb read: "Many Wyomingites celebrate birthdays with a colorful frosted cake." Huh. Also in that exhibt lie a diaper. The blurb read "disposable diapers feature adhesive strips to secure them."
Also, the Wyoming State Flag has a Bison on it.
We then went to the State Capital where the lady their talked forever to us...and then we went and looked at old senate pictures. In some of the really old ones absolutely EVERYONE had a mustache. And they were those curly ones.
Then we went to the bank for a little errand running. Then we walked to this AWESOME book store...
Books were EVERYWHERE, and some were FREE!!! I bought Animal Farm, and Mooch the Messy, and The Witches (Roald Dahl), and that Gnome Book that Paal and I looked at at Jess' friends party before I left for the summer. Then I got like 4 books that were free! They all look like they're going to be good too. Christine got one or two free books as well as The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis for one dollar.
That place was crazy though. Pretty crazy.
Then we went back to the car and got really lost, and out in the middle of nowhere Christine yells "Boot!" and swerves into a parking lot where there was another eight foot boot! So we stopped and took pictures of the boot and were convinced that we got lost for a reason.
Then we searched for cowboy hats. In our search we found this plaza area that had all the other boots. All six of the remainings! We found all eight boots!!! Amazing!
It was like the best day ever.
Then we drove back and stopped at a Shell station where I miraculously found a cowboy hat. Then we stopped at the Dam Store outside of loveland (love it), and there was a cowboy hat for Christine there! So we got our cowboy hats.
Then we drove home, and we got all dressed like cowgirls and went to LT.
But on the drive this happened:
"a tree" - Christine pointing at something in the distance (but her words were kind of incoherent)
"what did you point out?" - me
long pause
"...a tree..." - Christine
laughter
Also while we were wearing the cowboy hats in the car:
"I've never ridden a horse in my life" - Christine
"I never listened to country music before last week" - me
then we both laughed a whole bunch, and realized what giant posers we are
"we just want to be cowgirls because we're in Colorado" - Christine
But, here's the thing. We are cowgirls.
And those songs are mighty catchy and easy to sing along to.