Monday July 3, 2006
Today was an adventure for myself and there are several reasons I supposeThe first reason is that today was my first experience travelling around Boulder by a roadbike
This idea all began through one simple myspace comment to angie, which was about my roadbike. Angie then replied to the comment with "the master plan"
Jun 28, 2006 7:41 PM
okay, so I have a master plan: we go on a road bike ride togeather (perhaps with lisi too cause I think she got one recently) and then we eat alot (cause I like eating more than most otherthings) and then we chill.
through leaving messages to Lisi and getting phone tagged everytime ..we finally settled on a date: MONDAY (thank you Lisi..i was off today
)and then Sunday I couldn't find Lisi..her father told me she was @ ultimate frisbee..so I called Kara...but she was actually in Utah (i cracked up) ...and so I called ben..but they were occupied with earning a point in ultimate frisbee..so i called back an hour later ...but ackkk Lisi left with becaa to go see a film...so instead I called Angie...who would call Becca's mobile and I left a message for lisi ..thank you mr. Kuester. You still scare me..but life goes on.
TODAY: I woke up around 5:22 AM because of two mosquito bites on my left foot...they get irritating. ..i went to use the facility and headed back to my room instead of Peter's because he made me spend the night. I sleep past my alarm and finaly rose up from my bed around 7, cleaned my room and tried to prepare myself before Ben came over. i was about to tell Dad that when Ben was coming when a knock came to my door..haha ben is here..damn he's on time (8 o clock sharp)
my dad was still on the phone with my 5th great uncle in china...and he had no shirt on when i opened the door..yeah not awakard at all
dad: HEY BEN
ben: why hello
dad: how have you been?
beN: good
(blah blah blah ..."should we take baseline?? okay good blah blah")
I ate a quick breakfeast of low fat strawberry pop tarts with some orange juice..ben decided to eat some too..and then we headed out to the garage to get the bikes and head out. Dad had to adjust the seat to the Peugeot for ben...damn ur height.
SO we headed out on Atlantis..and I haven't even got out of omy neighboorhood when I totally fucked my bike chain. luckilly my man whore of a friend fixed it..and I never touched the gears with such intensity. We went up Caria St towards Waneka lake..and then took Waneka Pkwy and headed onto Baseline...which we biked until we hit Angie's house in Boulder. aand we only took one water break during that leg of the ride.
When we got to Angie's house..we were quite punctual, we said the rendezvous time was 9:00 AM..and we got there @ 9:05 :) we rock. Lisi drove here and we just loitered in front of Angie's house until she realised we were there. It was hilarious.
We took off..on our awesome roadbikes...and u won't believe this: another fuck up ensued. Though it was Lisi's bike that took this blow ..and we just got on the South Boulder creek trail. ..we headed back to Angie's house and let her amazing dad try and fix the bizzare free wheel problem. Angie got another bike...a mountain bike to be exact and we headed out on one awesome bike excursion
Angie was wearing her snow patrol shirt..and i commented that she was lucky cuz..the guy got throat blisters and had to cancel the rest of their tour (angie managed to see them)
- onto south boulder creek trail, biked passed pearl, valmont and we got onto the diagnoal..where we took indenpendence road.....flew down and headed to Gunbarrel...on Jay Road...then onto Spruce rd and went passed the tea facotry...went onto lookout...and then went into gunbarrel using Lookout (i forgot how to adjust my gears right so I basically lagged behind many times..and i was on the highest gear on the hills...yeah that killed me.
- then got on 75th street...flew down...got back on Valmont and headed into Stedio st..right past the baseball stadiumm...and then back to Angie's house
- i had to make a life or death decision: Glacier...or angie's house
- ...we are not very decesisive
- got back to angie's and decided to go to Pearl st and see it from there...
- and we ended up getting these delicous fruit smoothies at the store right by Illegal pete's/starbucks. mmmmmm "tsunami blast" ..i was about to get a red alert..but all of us eyed that smoothie on the chalkboard menu.
- headed back to Angie's
- me and ben headed back to my place
when we biked towards my house i yelled "open the door!!" in mandarin
as we pulled our bikes in the garage door opened and ben commented "hmm good service here"
my came out and said " wow biking...fun how are you ben?"
....we headed up the porch stairs...I called out to peter ..who i thought was in the tent..but was sitting in a lawn chair reading harry potter...damn he's good @ camfouglage.
we got orange juice in our throats mmm delicous. And we ate watermelon with chopsticks on the kitchen counter..and then we migrated to the living room...ben placed food on the dinner table..but we usually don't eat there.
so we ate guacamole with chips, strudle, black cherries, water melon and..mmm orange juice. the joy of sitting was amazing...oh so comofortable.
I called peri ..and they (lisi/peri) said they could pick me up so we could go her aunt's place. Ben was going to give me a ride to Peri's ...but that wasn't necceasarry anymore...he's still very nice about it.
me: your amazing...i love you
my dad thought we were going on another bike ride..hheeh no
SUNDAY: i felt trashed when I woke up...but i swtiched on the radio and went back to bed feeling lousy..though I did enjoy the smell of breakfeast cooking several feet away.
MOm tried to wake me up through a tickle fest....grrrrr i am prone to such a pathetic weakenss
me: STOP!!!
mom: well...wake up!! (keeps tickling me)
me: ughhh bitch!!
mom: what'd you say?
me: go away
Later in the morning................
Ted gave me a ride to KGNU in his beautiful new black Toyota camry...i think I gave him horrendous directions to the radio station...but i'm glad he found my house
I was waiting for him at home...while watching a replay of the brazil v. ghana on TELEFUTRA, Ted called and said, "where is your house..I think i passed it ..cuz i just saw 1250 Atlantis"
me: keep going...i live in a green/white house..and there's a toyota camry with a bike rack on top
...the minute i got out..his beautiful car rolled right by and stopped....which was when i hung up the phone
we talked about tennis....world cup...the matches that made me cry (just the england v. portugal)
ackkkkkkkk about that: WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyways...we managed to get to KGNU and the only person standing @ the door was Natalie.
Natalie: no one is here!
me: what...that's pathetic
.....later....we headed inside...i gave ted a quick tour of the place ...he was awed by the amazing CD library
ted: nicce...
then Mer showed up...she's weird.
and then my favorite people in the world: Matan and Dan :-D
my mic didn't work so i didn't get any pre-recordings don for Dan's show..and that's beucase i sounded like an alien when you speak into the mic.
I"M SERIOUS
i'm gonna have to upload the sound clips
when i mentioned it to the group..they decided to go and try oiut this phenonomenon...and also try to get another mic and recorder so that they could go to King soopers and wander the toothpaste aile.
so matan tried it out and so did Erika. When they replayed it and listened to their voices...they were creeped out and ...shocked.
..then we uploaded into the computer..and yes it scared the daylights out of us.
later i left..since Aunt Dora picked me up ..so we could head to the Boulder resevoir. moments before my mom called and asked if i could grab some forks for the watermelon...hehehehe hoarding the KGNU community kitchen is my favorite thing to do
resevoir= swimming to the docks twice and watching some dumbass squirting lighter fluid onto the grill over and over again because the flame kept going out. .
the second time i swam to the docks was with my aunt...but the current got stronger due to the afternoon storm that started to arrive into the area. I tried to swim from the south dock to the middle dock..though i got stuck in the current and couldn't swim against the current..i nearely panicked since I coiuldn't get out. Then i heard the public announcement which forced swimmers to evacute the resevoir due to lighting. so my aunt yelled to swim back..i let the current push me back...i thought i could never get out.
we showered in water needles basically...and only two of the shower heads worked...and there were about 6 littles kids and two adults trying to scrub their heads with shampoo. oy a nightmare.
we came out ...and mom hitched a ride with us ...so much lightning.
and Dad told mom to make an errand: STEAK sauce...specifically A1 steak house.
so we decided to go to the king soopers on US 287..but Aunt missed the turn on diagonal hwy so we went to the south boulder rd king soopers...i was hoping to catch peri @ work..but we were 20 minutes early to her shift (@ 4 pm) we got klondike bars...4 for 10$ ..and i got pop tarts ...heheheheh ..and i had no idea how useful they came to be the very next day
Posted 7/3/2006 at 11:46 PM
