The Zereps

yay for christmas!

gift giving can be a pain in the arse sometimes. but, eric and i have started using a wonderful new site called wishlist.com to publish our wish lists beyond the “dear santa” routine. we’re not telling people to buy us stuff (but it would be nice ;)) but for other people to sign up so we’re not so in the dark. plus, it’s super fun!

[if you would like to view our wishlists, just go to here and type in our names. :)]

this is the first chance i’ve had to post since before our trip, which, btw, was super fun. i loved boulder! mountainy, yet urban, relaxed, yet hip! 🙂

this here’s a rock. super, i know. i went for a walk/hike one day up into the flatirons (nearby rocky mountains).

while eric was doing his ‘training’ stuff, i was free to amble about town. mmmmm….nothing like a stop at ben and jerry’s for some dublin mudslide!

we got back from boulder at around midnight and eric’s dad got here for his visit the next morning around 6.30, so it was a busy thanksgiving day. we hit the parade, which eric showed you a pic of, and zipped up to the top of a building to look at the city, and then to our super yummy thanksgiving dinner at counter! it was SOOOO good! my favorite were the last 2 courses (out of 5).

Candice, my dad, and I (with Jabba tagging along) went to the far-east…side of Long Island to go to a Christmas Tree farm and cut down our own tree. It was very cold, but a fun ride. The trees are a little more expensive than in the fertile open spaces of California. $79 for any self-cut tree, regardless of size plus $20 for the base. The year we picked a silver-tip that measures about 7 feet tall. Pictures of the tree post-decoration to come soon…

Well… I would have thought by now that Candice would have posted some pictures of our recent adventures, but apparently she hasn’t, so here are a few that I picked out:

Me at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade:

Candice and me at the top of the Rockefeller Building, with the Empire State Building in the background: (Top of the Rock)

…Standing in front of our new Christmas Tree (deleted at Candice’s request):

Jabba is helping supervise the tree cutting:

Candice and I are safe and sound, back at home in New York City. We had absolutely no problems or delays getting from the Denver airport back to Laguardia (which is only about 2 miles from our house.) We flew on Frontier Airlines… I have to admit I usually don’t care much for air travel, but I really liked flying on Frontier. And so much for hectic holiday travel.. I think it’s way too hyped up by the media. There was hardly anybody on the roads in Colorado today. We flew out there on the Sunday before Thanksgiving; we left our house at 7:00am. By 7:15am, we were already through security and sitting in the terminal waiting for our 9 o’clock flight. And for our return flight, the plane we were on wasn’t even full… and there weren’t any delays and everybody seemed to be in a good mood. 🙂

We had an interesting experience for lunch today.. Right behind the hotel where we stayed these past couple days was a Domino’s Pizza joint.The checkout time at our hotel was 12 noon, so we packed up our stuff and wanted to grab something quick for lunch. We headed to the Domino’s, ordered a medium pizza with olives and 2-20oz sodas–and the guy there only charged us 5 bucks! Props to Domino’s in Boulder–that made my day.

Hello All. This is my first post from Colorado. It’s been a challenging, but productive couple of days here. Candice has had quite a bit of time to run around and check out the sites. I, on the other hand have been stuck in an office all day, but I’ve been learning web production from my company’s team of developers and designers. Boulder is a very beautiful city. It has about 100,000 residents and is about 50 minutes from Denver. Candice and I are flying back to New York Wednesday afternoon (yes, the day before Thanksgiving!!) Oh.. my title. Yeah.. as previous Subaru owners, Candice and I both noticed the uncanny fact that almost 10% of the cars in this town are Subarus–it’s weird. Anyway, it’s been fun. Wish us luck on our way back.. Thursday is the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and dinner at a vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan for us. Pictures of Boulder to come soon…

we’re here! we landed in denver at approximately 10.45 am local time. our airline was Frontier, which was a pretty nice airline, btw. low cabin noise is always good. and free muffins, i hate it when they charge you $3 for a muffin. we then took a shuttle from denver to boulder which was a little scarry. the driver was going 85 mph in an econo line van over potholes and around corners. but we made it to the university inn at last. let me just say one thing….i love it here! this is a great place! it’s not what i was expecting. sure there’s the occasional cowboy hat, but there’s more hippies and normal people here in downtown boulder. it’s totally not a normal suburb. for one thing there’s the university right in the middle of town. where we were today, on pearl street, it was like a giant downtown santa rosa. anyhoo…this place is super cute. and there are TONS of subarus! yay! and the cost of living is cheaper, too. 😉 i’ve been looking at real estate prices for this area…pretty low. oh, and we ate lunch at illegal pete’s and grabbed dinner from the wild oats across the street from our hotel.
anyhoo…tomorrow starts eric’s training, the main reason we’re here.
i’ll take and post some pics tomorrow! or at least i will try!
goodnight.

So, you’ve waited all year long for the holiday season.. you don’t want to wait until December 20th to buy all of your Christmas presents like you did last year, so you decide to hit the streets on Black Friday to get a head start (like 50 million other people.) Well, everybody knows that the best deals in town come out in the newspaper circulars for companies like CompUSA, Best Buy, Target, etc. Now you don’t even have to wait until Thanksgiving to find out all the best deals. Somebody has compiled all the after-Thanksgiving deals from about 30 major retailers into one very long web page. Check it out:

Black Friday 2005 Complete List

welp…we’re headed to boulder! yay! eric’s going for job training and i’m tagging along. 🙂 the main tech office for his work is in boulder, so he’s going to go for some intense training, or something. we’re leaving tomorrow morning and won’t get back ’till wednesday night. i’ve never been to CO for more than a layover so it should be fun. i’ll take pics and post tidbits along the way.
off we go! we’re taking jabba to lorrie’s so he can have a 4 day party with his pals, frankie and freida. 🙂