my colorado/meese adventure

SORRY it has taken so long to blog about this..it has taken me a while to be ok with it.  MY COLORADO/MEESE ADVENTURE!!

I found out that my favorite band, MEESE, was breaking up and they were doing their last concert after a COLORADO RAPIDS game. I called Ry, or text him.. and we decided to go. I hadn't even heard of the RAPIDS..and I was nervous to see MEESE in their hometown. I dreamed about meeting them again and meeting my other fav band and their close friends THE FRAY. Ry and I were excited to stand on the corner of first and amistad(FRAY song).  Well we started our adventure and we drove through Vernal Utah, were we stopped to have our picture with the PINK dinosaur, although it didnt make it into here, know that it is one of my fav pictures! HELLO, pink and a dinosaur, what else could be better? A SADDLED dinosaur maybe?! All the sinclair dinosaurs in colorado have saddles! Isn't that amazing?!?! There might have been a flashing incident while I was climbing the dinosaur..wind blowing + lifting leg over dinosaur = cars honking at me;) and ry had his back turned looking at himself in the glass window..why do I put up with him?

We continued our way into Co, we stopped in Vail for the night. Vail was simply magical!!! We went to dinner at this European place called Alpenrose. We dined outside on this amazing patio while this amazing man played the keyboard..mostly the fray! We had the most amazing waiter(brother to keyboard player). Dinner was amazing, desert was amazingX10 and overall, Vail was beyond amazing! We continued our adventure the next day by matching..didnt mean to!

first view of DENVER!

We found a hotel, then went sight seeing! I love love this horse on a GINORMO chair! oh and the fact that I am looking down!

Ry didnt appreciate the lay of the city streets and was complaining. I said to him, Well, not all cities could be as inspirational as Salt Lake! This town was made by cowboys and BRIDGETTERS(meaning jim bridger like people aka mountain men) well ry laughed super hard and when we found this statue, I had to have a pic!

ry on GIANT cow!!! ry, dairy farmer..get the funny?

My favorite statue!!! It is on top of an art museum. Indian and Cowboy fighting! LOVE it! There were so many giant statues! This BLUE bear was outside of a convention center.

We loved walking and driving around Denver and all of Colorado! It was so fun! We ate at good places, slept at good places..all thanks to mr fancypants. Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed every bit of it!! Before the game/concert, we went to this outdoor mall and it was so much fun! There were these statues of bears playing(looked like karate to me) hmm where is that picture??? anyways, we went to the game/concert and there were fun things to do outside the stadium but we went inside to try and catch a glimpse of MEESE!

Us waiting for the game to start! The reason I choose this picture is the boys in the background! I still laugh when I see this picture! Notice my cute new shirt to meet MEESE in! My cute hair was ruined because it was raining off and on and HAILED at one point. Biggest hail I have ever seen! It was crazy cool!

First soccer game ever = crazy fun lady sitting next to me screaming to the team about being pansies and other fun things I have forgotten. During half time, all the mascots from all the denver teams(bb, soccer, etc) played a messed up crazy game of soccer! It was great! Notice the clouds in the sky!! We were in the middle of a flash flood warning, severe thunderstorm advissory, AND a tornado advissory!!!!

Shortly after the half time game, the rain started..and man did it pour! By the end of the game(which was 1-1 and everyone just got up and left..apparently they can tie..I was NOT ok with it! But I didnt care cuz these girls next to us told us that we get to go out onto the field and watch MEESE and the best fireworks show in Colorado. It was the 4th of July afterall..anyways, we were SOAKED! But it was ok cuz the storm was awesome and I was so excited to see the loves of my life! *huge crush on nathan meese if you didnt know* Well, we ran out onto the field screaming/singing/dancing and having a good time. Everyone on the field was having so much fun! We were right up next to where they were going to play and the announcer comes on "due to safety precautions, meese will not be preforming but promise to play at another rapids game" ry and I were devastated!!! I was crying and ry was close to it, and everyone around us is still dancing/singing/playing in the massive rainstorn..it was horrible. We tried to talk to security people and a couple did talk to us and all they did was come to the next game..what part about us driving lots of miles to get here didnt they understand? We just wanted to go backstage and nobody would pity us and let us back! I was so mad that I walked out to the car (ry following a sobbing me) and wrapped in a DRY blanket and sat inside. There was a pole in the way so I couldnt see most of the fireworks but I was too upset. We finally got back to the hotel and changed and got all our wet stuff to take to the dryers which were forever away just to find out it was locked and wouldnt open til the am. Did I mention I had blisters on my feet from soggy socks bunching up and then walking everywhere.. yeah not fun! We got back and went to sleep. In the am when I woke up, my eyes hurt and were puffy from crying and my hair was everywhere cuz i slept on it wet.. we got ready, ate breakfast and went on our way.. we didnt find 1st and amistad, we didnt even SEE meese..only a picture of them on the bigscreen, my aunt and uncle werent even home to go see(oh i wanted to go see their house and where they lived but ry wouldnt take me, bum!), we were super depressed and grumpy so we had a couple fights on the way home...lets just say that it was NOT the best vacation I went on..