It counts as an update if she was here when I started it, right?
Carrie is now back home (we're skyping), but this entry was started a couple days ago, while she was still here and sitting behind me on my bed. That still counts as a trip update, right?
Stupid LJ and their buggy scrapbook. It took me 3 days to get it to upload pictures!
But now, with no further ado, the update:
Been busy!
I have seen parts of my state I've never seen before (or was too little to remember). We've toured Coors Field (and walked on the warning track!), the Molly Brown House, and the Capital. We've also dropped in Tattered Cover bookstore, the Denver Art Museum, 16th St. Mall, Quebec Square & Northfield Stapleton shopping and countless other spots. We've done 5 major cities in one day (Georgetown, Idaho Springs, Golden, including driving through Central City and Blackhawk). We hiked up to Buffalo Bill's grave.
And we've seen 11 libraries in 5 major cities (plus, I updated my Denver card).
We've eaten out more times in a week than I do in a month (or 6 months), at Cracker Barrel, Beau Jo's Pizza (a CO classic), Old Spaghetti Factory, Famous Dave's and the incomparable Chick-Fil-A. Carrie even experienced Pizza Hut pizza delivery for the very first time (it's amazing when they come right to the door, ay kikiduck?
Carrie brought her wii, which eventually led to by brothers indulging in a highly entertaining trash-fest talk and my parents bemusedly competing against each other in bowling (Mom won, barely).
But perhaps most importantly, we baked. A lot.
Exhibit A:
It's a vegetable garden! Peas = lime tootsie rolls and chocolate M&Ms, radishes = frosting leaves and red and white tootsie rolls and carrots = orange starbursts. Carrie is the best candy reshaper ever! They even had signs:
OMG SO CUTE. We dropped them off at my work (how many Kohl's did we visit, Carrie? I'm thinking 5).
Then we (mostly I) did these for my family (exhibit B):
They're PANDAS. With tiny mini cupcake heads, a giant mound of frosting topped with crushed Oreos and little white piped frosting decoration. They were also probably more edible than the garden cupcakes. SO CUTE, MAN.
So another Jinnie/Carrie trip is over. Who knows where we'll end up next!
PS: More pics here! These are mine, Carrie has much, much more on her LJ.
Stupid LJ and their buggy scrapbook. It took me 3 days to get it to upload pictures!
But now, with no further ado, the update:
Been busy!
I have seen parts of my state I've never seen before (or was too little to remember). We've toured Coors Field (and walked on the warning track!), the Molly Brown House, and the Capital. We've also dropped in Tattered Cover bookstore, the Denver Art Museum, 16th St. Mall, Quebec Square & Northfield Stapleton shopping and countless other spots. We've done 5 major cities in one day (Georgetown, Idaho Springs, Golden, including driving through Central City and Blackhawk). We hiked up to Buffalo Bill's grave.
And we've seen 11 libraries in 5 major cities (plus, I updated my Denver card).
We've eaten out more times in a week than I do in a month (or 6 months), at Cracker Barrel, Beau Jo's Pizza (a CO classic), Old Spaghetti Factory, Famous Dave's and the incomparable Chick-Fil-A. Carrie even experienced Pizza Hut pizza delivery for the very first time (it's amazing when they come right to the door, ay kikiduck?
Carrie brought her wii, which eventually led to by brothers indulging in a highly entertaining trash-fest talk and my parents bemusedly competing against each other in bowling (Mom won, barely).
But perhaps most importantly, we baked. A lot.
Exhibit A:
It's a vegetable garden! Peas = lime tootsie rolls and chocolate M&Ms, radishes = frosting leaves and red and white tootsie rolls and carrots = orange starbursts. Carrie is the best candy reshaper ever! They even had signs:
OMG SO CUTE. We dropped them off at my work (how many Kohl's did we visit, Carrie? I'm thinking 5).
Then we (mostly I) did these for my family (exhibit B):
They're PANDAS. With tiny mini cupcake heads, a giant mound of frosting topped with crushed Oreos and little white piped frosting decoration. They were also probably more edible than the garden cupcakes. SO CUTE, MAN.
So another Jinnie/Carrie trip is over. Who knows where we'll end up next!
PS: More pics here! These are mine, Carrie has much, much more on her LJ.