4/20/2011

We've been busy the last couple of weeks.  I got a last day of snowboarding, we moved everything out of the last storage unit, Kristen took Maddock to the Denver Aquarium, we moved stuff around in the garage, we did a lot of gardening and yard work.

The Indiana trip is coming up in about a week.  We saw in the news that southern Indiana was supposed to get high winds and possible tornados.  Perhaps this trip will involve cleaning up the wreckage of the tree house, instead of staying in it.  Time will tell.

Today is 4/20, and at exactly 4:20pm the yearly "smoke out" occurred at CU.  It has gotten fairly large and famous in the last few years, so a few co-workers and I decided to bike up there and witness the spectacle.  The crowd size was estimated at 10,000.  That's a lot of pot smokers, although at least 20% of the people were like us, just there to spectate.

Right at 4:20, a loud cheer ripped through the crowd, and large plumes of smoke billowed upward.  It was quite a sight, and would have been hard to imagine 10 years ago.  Afterward, people just sort of wandered off, probably looking for something to snack on.