DNC ya later!

Get it? Someone is funny. That person is either me, neil, or shane. I can't remember though because there were a few beers involved.

Denver is full. or at least it is 50,000 people more full than normal. i find this funny because the first time i ever came here, i thought "where are the people?". there are skyscrapers and restaurants and salons and coffee shops but the streets are relatively empty. not now. not now at all. so we ("we" consists of us, j, noelle, and greta) hopped on a bus on sunday to see what was all goin' on downtown.

here is something awesome that you can do to/for/with a three year old. but it only works if a) you are willing to trick your three year old for adult amusement and b) you have a reliable public transit system. We live all of 8 blocks away from J, N, and G. They got on the bus a few stops before us and did not tell Greta we were meeting them. So when i stepped on the bus, i was greeted with her yelling "REBECCA!!!!" as though the world is chock full of grand coincidences like these. When neil got on the bus behind me, it was almost too much for her. She might grow up thinking that life is as wacky as a Meg Ryan romantic comedy, if her parents keep this kind of stuff going.

Noelle and i are girls....ahem....Women. so apparently we are genetically predisposed to shopping. yeah, bite me if you think that is true. but i did get my second place t-shirt. i was hoping for hope, but i settled for progress:
If you are unfamiliar with the artist, get yourself familiar here.

So we walked and walked and walked around. There was a "green" festival that had *everything* you could possibly imagine to lower your carbon footprint.

Solar Oven, anyone?

i Loved this :

Freewheel lets you "rent" bikes for free! you just ride around all day and then bring it back to one of their many staions about town when you are done....for FREE. dig it, people! It's something J has seen before and he did mention that sometimes you see some douche from Kansas with a Freewheel bike in the back of his truck at the end of the day. oh Kansas, must you ruin it for the rest of us? was Wizard of Oz not enough or do you need further recognition as "the free bike stealers"? seriously.



well, Kansas has another thing coming this week. we have all of the police here. ALL of them.

They hang outside of SUVs~

They ride around on bikes~

And they also have buggies!~

The ones that freaked me out were the foot patrol. It is weird to walk so close to a group of people who are carrying on their person at least 7 different ways to completely immobilize, if not kill, you. and they were on every block. i was almost going to ask to get my picture with a group of them but i realized that if they said "no", i might cry and maybe piddle, too. but even worse, what if they said "yes" and THAT was when some neo-con fruitloop decided to take matters into their own hands? yeah, i'm not going to carry that one on my back. no pics for me!

We found MSNBC's home base. Here is Chris Matthews, doing what he does best:

And here are hundreds of people screaming over what he does best. Denver is quite exciteable, people.

Greta is a fan of Hardball, apparently:

I totally have DNC fever. As I type, there is a pot of chili on the stove and Nancy Pelosi is being tivo-ed. I plan on hunkering down and watching each and every minute of coverage i can get my hands on.

Politics are sensitive. I have no plans to argue or try to convert. But i really wasn't kidding about that "hope" t-shirt. I feel it and it feels goooooood.

and also, i am kind of convinced i might see Susan Sarandon driving Kanye around in a rental Prius. How rad would that be?