day 36

this morning we went to marte's church, atlas, which is a very small but cool church. it meets in downtown greely in a cement building that is a church/art gallery/soon-to-be coffee shop. small tables and chairs make up the congregation seating and the pastor is a young exciting man. we talked with some people and grabbed some breakfast before service got started; kody, mallory, and mallory's brother met us at church and we sat together. he talked about paul and about ephesians, it was a cool discussion group than just a sermon. he'd ask questions or have people read sections so that made it feel more personal to me. church ended and we headed into denver to hit up the famous casa bonita! we jammed out to some mewithoutyou to get pumped up! i think evan slept mostly on the way. ha. we got a little lost but found our way to the bright pink building that would forever change our lives! we took some photos outside then entered in the pretty house. we ordered our "food" and got seated. so basically its like a mexican tourist restaurant/theater; its like a 2 story complex that is decked out like you are in a small mexican town with a waterfall where they perform skits and have people juggling fire (or dropping them on the ground) and cliff divers. its a fun atmosphere and just plain ridiculous; you don't go there for the food no matter what your father tells you (we heard a dad tell a little girl that they were their for the food not for a glow in the dark sword). evan and i for some reason got the all you can eat meal while marte somehow got a vegetarian meal. you couldn't tell when your burrito started and your rice and beans ended. it was one sloppy mess. we enjoyed a person in a gorilla suit run around the restaurant being chased by a zookeeper. it was wild. it was crazy. we enjoyed it. the sopapias were great but the rest of the food wreaked havoc on evan and i just like everyone says, even comments on google. we walked behind the waterfall, went through black barts cave, enjoyed little kid rides, and even evan enjoyed the arcade for a bit (i did almost have a picture of marte holding a shotgun but my camera died, would've been epic). we then posed for a pic at the bottom of the waterfall then left one of the happiest places in colorado. marte then took us and dropped us off at tattered covers, a sweet book store similar to powell's in portland. we said our goodbye's to marte and we can't thank her enough for all she did for us, hopefully all the laughing would be some sort of payment. i sat and read then fell asleep in the store while evan was hunting for cheap books. we both called and wished our padre's a happy fathers day and started walking downtown. this weekend was pride week so we thought we'd stop by and see how it was going; it looked like a wild and crazy time. it was shutting down when we got there so we meandered for a bit then made our way to my friend's, pat, apartment. we met up with pat and took refuge in his apartment where both his girlfriend and him cooked us up some wonderful spaghetti and we watched "blades of glory" (i think its one of my dad's more favorite movies for some reason. happy fathers day dad.). we sat around and talked for most the night just hanging out and taking it easy until we all decided to call it a night. always great to see old friends, pat and his family are wonderful family friends of ours and we used to all live in alaska together until they moved to idaho; luckily we got to stay in denver for the night so i could meet up with him. evo slept on the couch and i was out on the air mattress, these rest days seem to keep getting better.