The view from 5400: January 2008

Dinner

Our house came with a double oven in the kitchen (where else would it be???). Fabulous right? Well, personally I would have preferred a double MICROWAVE oven. How can you cook a quick meal with only one microwave? With one microwave, it takes a good 15 minutes to make Dan's dinner. If I ever have money to remodel my kitchen... one can dream can't she?

Congratulations Jordan!!!

Congratulations to Jordan Romero, age 11, on his successful summit of Mt. Aconcagua. He is attempting to become the youngest person to successfully summit the eight highest mountains in the world (I thought there were only seven, but apparently there is some controversy about this so he is covering his bases and climbing them all). Four down, four to go. Props to Karen and Paul (his stepmom and dad respectively) on summitting all four with Jordan as well.

Titanic

We (Deb, Dan and I) went to the DMNS on January 1 to see the Titanic Exhibit. I highly recommend this to everyone if it comes your way. I learned so much about the ship, the happenings prior to the voyage and the passengers and why they were traveling on the Titanic. The artifacts they recovered were amazing and some were still in very good condition. It was an incredible history lesson. We all received a "boarding pass" of one of the passengers at the beginning of the tour. At the end of the tour we would find out if "we" lived or died. This boarding pass actually told a lot about the passenger - their age, class, cabin #, reason for traveling and other passenger facts. My lady, Helene Baxter, survived along with her daughter and son's fiance. Unfortunately her son died. I actually was very sad to learn of his fate. I really became engrossed with this ship and its history. Later that night, I went here to learn more about Helene, the Titanic and the stories of the other passengers. Deb's lady, her husband and brother-in-law all survived; and Dan's guy, his wife and their son survived. Go see this exhibit, or check out this site to learn more! (gee, I sound like a commercial.)

On a sidenote, Dan noticed this very funny sign at the musuem.

Happy New Year!!!

Ok, a little late, sorry. We hope everyone has a healthy, happy and adventurous new year!

Broncos and Socks

Deb and I went to the final Broncos game of the season last Sunday. We had our usual treeline seats.

Our QB played pathetically at the beginning - no surprise. Ugh! He drives me nuts. Run forward with the ball, Jay. Don't try to throw the ball if no one is open. You can run with it. Ugh! It was a cold and super windy day. Thank goodness the stadium blocked the wind from us. But then the temperature dropped and brilliant me, I wore thin socks with my sneakers. I don't have warm fuzzy boots yet. Don't ask why. So my tootsies were getting very cold, in fact two were frozen. With only 6 minutes left in the game and ahead of the Vikings by 16 points, I told Deb we had to leave. My toes were done. We ended up going to the Broncos store on the bottom level because I had to see if they had warm, thick socks. And yes, they did! Of course I grabbed the imperfect pair and I didn't realize it until I got home. The word Broncos is in the wrong color on one side of the socks. Awesome. I insisted on putting on the socks before we left the stadium. As I was doing that Deb was watching the game on one of the TV's and noticed that the score was now 11-19. Huh??? There was still 4 minutes left. We are not a cheating/come from behind/stay in the lead team like these guys, so we knew we could still lose. I said lets just walk into section 100 (field level) to watch the rest of the game. Then we casually walked over to some empty seats, end zone view, and sat there to watch the Broncos beat the Vikings in OT. Woohoo!

From all this excitement of attending the Broncos games, we decided to put our names in for season tickets. There are only 24,000 people in front of us, an approximate 12-14 year waiting list. Cool. Does anyone have connections???

Because I know you all are so interested, here is a picture of my imperfect sock. The picture on the left is what it is supposed to look like (and that doesn't even look that great) and the picture on the right is what it actually looks like.