We’ve now resumed our regularly-scheduled programming, bitches! I was a tad drunk still when I wrote my last post, but I think I emerged from it unscathed. It was a great dinner to say farewell to one of the most incredible team members our group has ever had. In that spiel I wrote, I promised pictures – and pictures you’ll have! You’ll need to click on the MY PICS link above and a Colorado Springs 2010 link will be awaiting you there. Here’s a little bit from a previous post where I took a bit about what we did during the trip too.
Sept 10, 2010 – Day 1 Return to the Springs
I believe this was the Fortress of Solitude
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Larry eagerly awaits getting to CS!
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Our reception crew, Susan and KD!
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At Noodles!!!
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Looking at KD’s vegetable garden in their backyard
Stunning Susan
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Touring Garden of the Gods
The narrow road pass
Me and Susan
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The great CS landscape
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The glorious CS landscape
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Sept 11, 2010 – Day 2, Touring the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO
Larry welcomes you to …..Coors
It was a glorious blue sky in Golden and KD fit right in
Susan expectantly awaits her chariot
A very familiar feeling to this pic!!!
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Larry and me in front of the giant beer vat
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All the Coors brands!
The vats within
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I do love my Mash Tun
She’s gonna jump!
Strolling towards where you get your first direct-from-the-tap taste of Coors
The swiftly traveled cases of beer
Laverne & Shirley are there somewhere, I presume
A great pic of me and Susan
Enjoying 1 of our 3 free “samples”
Confused that the Coors beers don’t taste shitty when you drink them right from the source
Sept 12, 2010 – Day 3, Driving up to the top of Pikes Peak
Up atop Pikes Peak, Larry rode with Eric in his Lotus
It may have been a touch nerve-wracking for Larry
I sat in it just to say I’m a poser
Too much car for me, I think
Ready to say goodbye
It was a pretty stunning day for being up top of Pikes Peak
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Lots of rocks
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Larry and the vista of Colorado Springs behind him
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Have to do this or else it doesn’t count
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Aww, it’s me and Larry
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Larry hiked all this way!
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KD stands, waiting
Eric’s hand is not to be seen
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America the Beautiful plaque; it’s there because it’s from this vista that the poem was inspired
Larry is ready for his ride back down the mountain.
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A cool pic of the Lotus and Eric
Off we go!
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Lotus
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Sept 13, 2010 – Day 4, Visiting the Royal Gorge
Looking down the vertical railway’s track
At the main village of Royal Gorge (all burned down now!)
There be the bridge
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Susan is nuts
Far below you can see the river
Down below is the Arkansas River
It’s a very high-up bridge with just wooden planking….and bouncy too
Susan
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Yep – there’s the gondola that crosses the canyon.
In the funicular that takes you down to the Arkansas river
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Larry at the Arkansas River
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The bridge WAY up above
KD and Susan
Calm rapids
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This weekend was sooooo necessary – finally a time when I didn’t have to fly anywhere. It is pretty exhausting to have to continuously fly – rest suffers greatly. This weekend was thus a nice lazy time. Made it over to JG Melon’s on Friday night for a splendidly wondrous burger experience on the Upper East Side with Lawrence. He’s trying to figure out just what furniture he’s gonna want to keep before moving to Los Angeles, so I went over to help decide. It seems like pretty much 80-85% of it is coming. We’re going to need a decent-sized apartment in LA, that’s for sure. Then on Saturday, we spent time with his family for Yom Kippur and saw his sister Alyssa who is ready to pop out that baby girl of hers! Today was a very nice lazy day and we saw the movie Easy A which was hilarious and well worth seeing.
And now it’s evening and Larry is making Baked Ziti, we’re watching Contact on Blu-Ray, and tonight will be a new episode of Mad Men. It’s truly a nice Sunday. BTW, so bummed that Big Brother 12 is over, although gotta say I’m going to miss Britney mostly. LOVE her. She needs to come back on TV on the Amazing Race. Her and Lane can be a team. Would…be….awesome.
