Baseball and Ballet

I believe that yesterday may be one of those days you look back on and say - hey remember that really random day when we went downtown to watch the Tigers in the World Series and then went to the Ballet...after a full day of randomness? It was awesome and totally crazy all at once.

I started the day off with a snowy walk to Panera for coffee with Wendy. The sun was out and everything looked beautiful - although the snow was already beginning to melt. Vivian met us there a bit later and we walked down to the Library for a cooking demonstration. This installation was tapas from a restaurant here and was really quite fun. It was like being on a cooking show and there were even samples and a recipe packet to take home. From there we went back to my place, grabbed the ghetto cruiser I'm currently driving, and went up to the Denver Merchandise Mart for an antique show. It was gigantic! And to celebrate a successful week one I picked up this fantastic purse!

That random enough for you? Good...cause it keeps going! While we were there Sheralee called because she had locked her keys in the car at the Zoo. So after we finished up at the antiques we headed home to grab her extra clicker and then over to the Zoo. From there we went down to S. Gaylord Street to try a bakery/cafe Sheralee had found called Devils Food Cafe. It was tasty! And the block it was on was cute so we poked around there for a while.

Don't worry. It gets better. From there Vivian and I changed into nice clothes for the Ballet and headed downtown for the Tigers game. I had heard that the Blake Street Tavern had these cool things that let you choose which TV to listen to if the game you wanted to watch wasn' t on the big screen. I thought it was on the block right by Coors Field and we looked and looked and couldn't find it. While we were text messaging Google this homeless guy started harassing us for 90 cents and wouldn't leave us alone, so we just went into Sports Column. Which was showing the game and was totally packed. So we eventually found where Blake St. Tavern was...about 4 blocks from where we were...so we walked down there and it was packed for the CU game and we couldn't get a seat near the TVs that were showing baseball. So we ended up at Breckenridge Brewery...after what seemed like tons of walking.

We watched the disappointing game fora while and then caught a cab back to the performance hall where I realized the Ballet started at 7:30 and not 8:00 like I thought it had. They graciously stuck us in the back and at the first intermission we found our real seats. Which were pretty good actually - front row of the Loge section - dead center.

From the Ballet we entertained the option of continuing on with the random random day...but Vivian and I were both reaching the end...so we just went home. It's days like this that make me realize I have a pretty darn fantastic life!