Last weekend I had some friends come into town from our old stomping ground in North Carolina to celebrate one of their 30th birthdays. It was a jam-packed weekend and, although I was exhausted by the end of it, it was a BLAST. Over the course of a few days, we visited the Coors Brewery, went to a Rockies baseball game, hit up the Downtown Chalk Art Festival, and drove up to … [Read more...]
Frozen Dead Guy Days and the Stanley Hotel
This past weekend was Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, CO. I first heard about it on a How Stuff Works: Stuff You Should Know podcast about a year ago (while I was living on the East Coast). As soon as my husband and I decided to make the move to CO, I KNEW I had to go to this one. This was my first time going AND I was lucky enough to have an amazing friend … [Read more...]
Wolves for the Win!
A few months ago, as my husband and I were living a life without cable, we would watch this show called Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World on one of the public stations (video below). It's geared toward younger people, mostly kids, and a lot of the Disney television stars come along for the ride, but when one does not have cable, almost anything can be entertaining. One of the … [Read more...]
The Book Wheel Relocates
Last month The Book Wheel (meaning me) relocated from North Carolina to Colorado. It was a big move, but one my husband and I have been planning for the past year. The reason we moved was because I finished my degree in Political Science and will be attending graduate school. We were lucky in that my husband found a job out west much more quickly than we had expected, and so he … [Read more...]