Today we awoke in Boulder with a day full of fun events. Our day off could not have started better with a sponsored breakfast at The Original Pancake House. The guy sponsoring the breakfast works for Case Logic, a company who used to sponsor JOH, and has always been so impressed with the teams and the cause that he bought breakfast for everyone. In this type of setting where we eat at a restaurant the place will sponsor our meal or give us some sort of discount, but today this guy paid for all of us. There are so many sponsors along the ride and I am astounded at some of the generosity that I have seen. I had an amazing sausage, spinach, and cheese omelet with fresh orange juice. After breakfast all of us got in our swim trunks and headed down to the gas station to buy tire tube
s for us to use to float Colorado Creek. Once we got to the river the plan was to float it until we reached the burrito place that was sponsoring our lunch. Before starting our adventure downstream we all jumped off the rope swing which swung out over the river. We were informed that the damn had just been opened and the river had some rough spots but with 28 guys we weren’t about to let that prevent us from floating the river. As we headed down the river many of us began to figure out what exactly those people were talking about. The river was indeed much deeper than normal and some of the drops send you off your tube. There were lots of big rocks and guys were losing each other fast. I only got about ¼ way down the river when I called it quits after getting knocked off my tube multiple times and finding the sharp rocks a little intimidating. My buddy Dan who I was tubing with hit is back on a rock so we both walked the rest of the river as did about half the guys. No one got hurt too bad, just some scrapes and bruises. Though the river was a little rougher than we had anticipated everyone still had a great time, it will be a fun memory to look back on.
Lunch was sponsored by a Big City Burrito where everyone got these enormous burritos, pretty tasty. We then rushed back to lodging to get ready for a friendship visit with Sky’z the Limit, an organization that works with people with disabilities at the local high school. The CU Boulder chapter has worked with this organization before and so some of the kids knew our guys on the team. It was a great time playing volleyball and bbqing hot
dogs and hamburgers. I had the opportunity to sit with and get to know Matt, one of the kids with disabilities who had some mild mental retardation. This kid was so friendly, he has worked at Safeway for 6 years and was giving me some advice on the best ways to keep a job. I thoroughly enjoyed his company as we talked about how important working hard and respect is in a job. Matt really had has his head on straight and was a very neat guy who also knew a ton about sports. After talking sports for 20 minutes he was really stumping me on some sports facts, he then informed me that his favorite TV show is ESPN, aw that explains it.
That evening I updated my blog at the CU Boulder chapter house and later met and hung out with the guys staying there for summer sch
ool. I really enjoyed Boulder today and look forward to getting into the city of Denver tomorrow.
s for us to use to float Colorado Creek. Once we got to the river the plan was to float it until we reached the burrito place that was sponsoring our lunch. Before starting our adventure downstream we all jumped off the rope swing which swung out over the river. We were informed that the damn had just been opened and the river had some rough spots but with 28 guys we weren’t about to let that prevent us from floating the river. As we headed down the river many of us began to figure out what exactly those people were talking about. The river was indeed much deeper than normal and some of the drops send you off your tube. There were lots of big rocks and guys were losing each other fast. I only got about ¼ way down the river when I called it quits after getting knocked off my tube multiple times and finding the sharp rocks a little intimidating. My buddy Dan who I was tubing with hit is back on a rock so we both walked the rest of the river as did about half the guys. No one got hurt too bad, just some scrapes and bruises. Though the river was a little rougher than we had anticipated everyone still had a great time, it will be a fun memory to look back on.Lunch was sponsored by a Big City Burrito where everyone got these enormous burritos, pretty tasty. We then rushed back to lodging to get ready for a friendship visit with Sky’z the Limit, an organization that works with people with disabilities at the local high school. The CU Boulder chapter has worked with this organization before and so some of the kids knew our guys on the team. It was a great time playing volleyball and bbqing hot
dogs and hamburgers. I had the opportunity to sit with and get to know Matt, one of the kids with disabilities who had some mild mental retardation. This kid was so friendly, he has worked at Safeway for 6 years and was giving me some advice on the best ways to keep a job. I thoroughly enjoyed his company as we talked about how important working hard and respect is in a job. Matt really had has his head on straight and was a very neat guy who also knew a ton about sports. After talking sports for 20 minutes he was really stumping me on some sports facts, he then informed me that his favorite TV show is ESPN, aw that explains it.That evening I updated my blog at the CU Boulder chapter house and later met and hung out with the guys staying there for summer sch
ool. I really enjoyed Boulder today and look forward to getting into the city of Denver tomorrow.
1 comment:
Ryan,
You da man!!! Love reading your blog. Keep up the faith baby, you are doing great.
John
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