July closed out with a fervor of activity. I wrote my monthly stipend of note cards and read one new book pictured above. I highly recommend this quick, easy read in which I stole my new motto: "Mary Poppins in Silk Stockings".
The day after my awesome, but headache and dehydration inducing birthday party, B and I rode in a sixteen mile, obstacle course laden bike ride. Yeah - that hurt. The New Belgium Urban Assault Race included such things as slip and slides into mud pits, bobbing for beers in a giant pool and adult size tricycles. I hated life for about the first twelve miles, but then we gave up and retorted to the free beers and food trucks allotted to us. I'm hard core. On that note: if you have a chance to try Stick it to Me go for the Korean BBQ. You will thank me. I even met a new friend while waiting for our snacks. Her name is Jeanne, she's a doctor from Wisconsin, and she's totally down to earth and cool!
Afterwards we hit up Rock & Roll Sunday at one of our favorite brunch places Japoix, whom never fails to impress (more on this in a later post), then on to the worlds shortest concert. Sister Hazel playing at Hudson Gardens for a mere $20 sounded amazing. Little did we know that they would only play for about an hour. It was odd, but I was too exhausted to be disappointed.
After my monthly travel to Oklahoma the next week, yeah, be jealous, I closed out the week with an amazing tweet-up at the Brown Palace Hotel including many drinks, delicious hors d'oeuvres, mini massages and some of my favorite people.
Friday was O.A.R. day at Red Rocks and I was a dancing mess singing at the top of my lungs. That was definitely my favorite concert so far. B had a blast, too!
The month ended with a bang: beer brewing! Denver Craft Ninjas held the event at Beer at Home in Englewood. We labored and sweated (literally) all day over, but not into, our concoctions, drank beer, learned and laughed. My group made the Jasmine IPA shown above, the Belgian Wit another group made is pictured beside it. I even made another new friend, Josh, and I'm joining his soccer team!
Anyone have a clever name for our beer? We are on the hunt...
So as you can see it was a busy couple of weeks. I'm definitely living up to my desire to get out more. August is already looking like it'll blow July out of the water. I hope to see your lovely faces along this journey!
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