Tourists In Our Own City
That is exactly what Kiyomi and I became this weekend, starting Friday when I picked her up in Greeley. We witnessed an alley and Sweet Rockin' Coffee flood, we rode the 16th street mall shuttle, I set off the alarm in the Tattered Cover, we skipped through Virgin Mega to warm up. We entered the nearly abandoned Capital building with the express purpose of going up to the dome, only to find out the third floor is under construction. So we wandered around, taking pictures of statues, wanting to steal the little zamboni thing they use to clean the floors, before sitting at the One Mile Above Sea level mark for half an hour or so, making faces at people passing by. Then it was time to stroll up Colfax! We discovered a record store that had a life size cut out of Kenny G. Damn I wish we had gotten a picture with it! As well as the "Learn to Square Dance!" album.Cross the street to church! The big cathedral on Colfax we realized we had never been in. We finally find a door that is open and step into the seemingly empty church. 30seconds later the organ starts up scaring the crap out of us.
A few minutes later we step out on to the street and spot 3 other churches in the neighborhood that we had never been in. Well the Catholics must have called and told them we were coming, because the doors were all locked. I see how it is.
Time for food! We set off to Chead's, the grilled cheese restaurant. Hooray! Then back to the car and out to drop Kiyomi off. I ran home, changed, ran to the Bluebird for the Killers show I could have sworn wasn't for 2weeks. Pete's Kitchen afterwards with Rachel.
Saturday night.
Meet Kiyomi at St. Mark's around 7.30ish after talking to Rach and she decided she didn't want to go out (that was a mistake my friend). Quarter to nine-ish. Let's go see Huckabees! Can't find a paper, damn, well we know there is one starting between 9 and 10. Do the Swingers thing for the rest of the night and take seperate cars everywhere. Get to the Mayan, buy tickets, have an hour to show time. Walgreen's it is! We were just going off in search of candy, we ended up trying on bits of Halloween costumes and playing with as many toys as we possible could, not to mention the pillows, make up, hair spray cans and anything else we could find.
9.45 movie starts. Kiyomi and I love this movie. We laugh at parts that only the two of us seem to think are funny.
Movie ends, we stand in the parking lot decided what the hell to do next, but keep getting distracted by other things, ie our cameras, a guy that almost ran into both of our cars while exiting the parking lot, the thought of how funny it would be if we got in some sort of trouble with the police, then we could have them pose for pictures and that would really make the weekend complete.
We finally decide. We are off to the 24 hour Starbucks. It is packed! Mainly with people who are not from the US. It is like a little international club. We sit out side, trying to horde our 4 chairs for as long as possible, it doesn't work. We watch obviously drunk underage kids go up to the counter and order with their beer still clutched in their hand.
12.30 ish. We are frozen, off to Village Inn! Kiyomi leads the way, taking a very scenic route through various parking lots, and dancing around while waiting for the light to turn.
We get to Village Inn, Kiyomi makes sculptures out of the silverware (amongst other things). She points out that they can fork and spoon at the same time, but we can't.
2am or so. We leave Village Inn. Long tearful good byes in the parking lot. Back home to sleeeeeeeeep.
Fav. Kiyomi quote: after taking a sip of her mocca and a bite of butterscotch cheesecake "oh man. This is the closest I have come to an orgasam in a long time." I love you Kiyomi.
*click on the title and it will take you to my photos from this weekend. There should be a folder with the same title as this entry*
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