Denver->New Orleans->Galveston

It's been awhile hasn't it? I don't know if anyone is even out there anymore in blog land. Life sure has been busy. For those of you that weren't aware, I moved to Denver. Sure, it happened like 2 years ago but I really haven't posted since then. Getting to know a city is also an adventure, even when you are not vacationing there. I learned this about Denver from moving here by myself and having to go to every single bar around my neighborhood and apply for work as a bartender. I have been doing it for years and I am confident in my abilities to be behind a bar and function even in stressful, busy moments. After finding a couple that I liked, I kept returning to drinks and good company. A specific one that I went to every few days was called Bull and Bush Brewery. It opened back in the 70s when the Glendale area of Denver was booming with night life. Nowadays Glendale is quiet with a lot of a lot of apartments and older folks but Bull and Bush remains strong and very popular among Colorado beer snobs. I would sit at the bar and talk to the regulars and get to know things about my new city. I had some money saved up and lots of time on my hands, but I had to find a job and really soon. I honestly had forgotten how hard it is to put yourself out there. It took me two months to land a job at a sports bar in my neighborhood. Luckily for my birthday being in he middle of it all I had a little extra cash for meals and bills. That was a struggle but I feel like it made me stronger. Moving to a new city can be super hard but can also be so much fun. I have made so many great friends and have even fallen madly in love since moving here. Before this fact, I was always the one making adventures for myself. Now there is someone in my life who loves going on adventures as much as I do and we make a great team. Some of the fun things I/we have done in this wonderful city include: *spending hours walking around the Museum of Natural History. *camping in the Winter Park area. It was June and it was 28 degrees that night. Be prepared. *seeing Furthur at Red Rocks Amphitheater TWICE. Such a great. Scenic venue with so much to offer. We also saw Blues Traveler and My Morning Jacket. *tubing down the river in Boulder and watching college kids on their summer break set up beer pong tables in the calm parts of the river. *went to about 10 games at Coors field. Mostly Rockies vs Giants of course. TheGiants won every time. :) *went to a preseason football game at Sports Authority Field. Home of Peyton Manning. Yet, my Niners still managed to bet he Broncos. *played 80s arcade games while drinking cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. This can be found at the 1up and 2up bars here in Denver. *laid out our blankets for Jazz in the Park at City Park. Unfortunately the day we were there a young man murdered a female police officer. Sad day, but was fun while it lasted. *many nights of pub crawls or bar hopping around one of the most beer happy sites in the country. Many breweries in the area including Breckenridge, Wynkoop, Great Divide, and Oskar Blues to name a few. *a trip to the Stanley Hotel for my birthday. Complete with a ghost tour, a cocktail at the bar where Jim Carrey sat in Dumb and Dumber, and watching The Shining while drinking red wine and eating KFC/Taco Bell. I didn't sleep a lot. Every noise I heard I thought was a ghost. *spending an extended weekend in Fort Collins visiting New Belgium Brewery and ODell. Went fishing on the Poudre River and saw someone I went to high school with in Pagosa Springs. Small world... These are just a few of the awesome Northern Colorado things we have endured. Last month we were informed that Nate had a great job offer awaiting him in Louisiana. He was gone a week later for the next few weeks. I worked extra hard so I had money to come see him in a place on my bucket list, New Orleans... To be continued.