Last night was my friend Kelly’s birthday so a few of us went out to celebrate in Fort Collins with a girls’ night out. We hit up the Rio and then went to a couple of night clubs including Zydecos, Suite 152 and the Drunken Monkey. We had a pretty good time and danced a lot. It’s amazing how much busier Fort Collins is on a Friday night than Greeley. I am also beginning to notice how I can’t party like I used to. We were yawning and ready to come back to Greeley by about 11:30pm. Still, it was a fun night.
It was a busy four day weekend. First we had our party on Wednesday evening, then we had to clean and recover on January 1st. Then that evening we went out salsa dancing at Suite 152 in Fort Collins. We got there early to go to the lessons, but they weren’t open so we went to Lucky Joes (I think that’s the name of the bar) and had appetizers and peanuts that we got to throw on the floors.
Eating Peanuts at Lucky Joes with Shana and Lorena
Salsa dancing at Suite 152
We got a merengue lesson that could be a Larry David moment, I swear. Eets so seemple! There was reggaeton, salsa, hip-hop, techno and merengue played there. We were some of the oldest people there since it was 18+ night. But it was fun. I love to dance, Britton, not so much. We are also planning to take salsa lessons here at the Greeley FunPlex starting tomorrow night to prepare for our trip to Puerto Rico.
Then, Friday night, Shana invited me to temple and then to Island Grill to watch a co-worker’s husband play in a band.
Shana and Me at Island Grill in Fort Collins
Some of the girls: Lauren, Mary, Shana and me
A magician was even there to levitate some paper
Turn down your speakers because the sound quality on this is horrible…
Britton and I went to Fort Collins last weekend to see a movie because it wasn’t playing in Greeley but we got lost and missed the early showing, so we decided to go up to Horsetooth Reservoir and hike around a little bit. It was beautiful and perfect weather, probably the last nice weather (you might notice no coat on Britton) of the year.
Britton on a rock
Beautiful Vista of the Reservoir
The weather has definitely changed and the temperature has dropped. This weekend we hardly left the house -just for groceries and lunch on Sunday. It’s only about 40 degrees! Kitty kept trying to run into the house and the chickens kept fluffing up their feathers outside Uggh! Times like these remind me how much I want Puerto Rico! We keep checking the temperature differences (40 here, 84 there). Just wait till we get the snow..Brrr.
On Sunday Britton, Torrie (his sister), our niece and nephew, my mom, our friend Shana and I all went out to the Sustainable Living Event in Fort Collins that is in conjunction with New Belgium Brewery. Afterward we went to the Holistic Fair in Loveland before returning home. It was pretty cool. Our nephew kept saying this was where all the hippies were, which was somewhat true if your definition of a hippie is someone with long hair, or locks, and who cares about the environment. We learned a little bit about solar power, wind power, recycling, composting, gardening, and much more. There were plenty of interesting people, good food and beer as well. There was even a booth with chickens! There was definitely an underlying political atmosphere that was pretty cool. We seem to have had a lot of opportunities for training in Puerto Rico lately.
