So me, DK, and the Aussie's leave Abigail's the next morning for Boulder, CO...the first place we actually got to hang out. We heard good things about Boulder but at that time, we were just excited to see some mountains (or anything besides corn).
We got to our new couch surfing spot where our hosts were Dan, Rick, Katelyn, and Christina (with occasional cameo's by Pat, the "other roommate"). They were all couples and a couple of years older than us. We found it interesting how they all managed to share a condo in downtown Boulder when only one of them had a job.
They set us up in the bedless/furnitureless basement so we had to use on our sleeping bags which was totally fine. Walking downtown was easy because they were only 8 or 9 blocks away from Pearl Street Mall, an outdoor mall that is absolutely awesome. That evening we had dinner with the Aussies and planned to meet up with our host’s afterwards. By this point we were really good friends with Nick and Josh (the Aussies) and the fact that we were parting ways after Boulder lingered in our minds.
We met our hosts at some cellar bar and lost track of them pretty soon after; the rest of the night is really just a blur. Oh! We did hide our leftovers behind a garbage can so we could bring them back to the house later which did come in handy but yeah, that’s about it.
The next day however gave us a real sense of the city. We spent most of the day on the mall just window shopping and people watching. From our observation, Boulder is split into four different categories of people: The young couples, who are incredibly well dressed and happy and have children named either Graham or Jackson. Then there’s the college students, who will likely join the young couples in due time. There’s also the street performers, there are so many of them that they deserve representation in Boulder’s demographic. Acts range from fire-jugglers to contortionists to hippies with guitars, which brings us to the final category…hippies. Well, hippies can be broken up into two sub-categories: classic hippies and sketchy hippies. Classic hippies are your typical hippies, but the sketchy hippies are the ones that usually only come out at night. They usually have face/neck tattoos and carry signs like “sparijuana” and “full of love, out of weed.” They seemed to really like our hacky sack but we had to put it away when we found out there was a $250 fine because it was a “flying projectile” or something.
So those were the first two days in Boulder. We only planned to stay for a that amount of time but we really liked the place and hadn’t even gone hiking in the Rockies yet so we had some unfinished business to take care of…
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