Veg Out III: Day 2-Boulder Preparations

Woke up early in the morning and headed out to Boulder to pick up our ski rentals. We had a relatively uneventful drive to Boulder and proceeded to first settle down into our Boulder “Mansion” The house we rented was a relatively antiquated house. The design was pretty standard with 2 floors as well as a basement. Unfortunately, the centralized heating was pretty craptacular and so the house always felt pretty cold. The owner was very artsy and had strange paintings and pictures of nude women hanging from the walls. There was ample space in there though. I doubt we would have any trouble fitting 8 people in there.

The next order of business was picking up our ski rentals and buying lunch for the next day of skiing. On the way there, BlueBerry mentioned that Google was an awesome place to work because of the free food they provided and how he loved to drink blueberries because they were the best berry. He also mentioned that there was no point of going out to eat because the food was worse than the food Google offered and he had an amazing DS that did everything but cure cancer.

The ski rentals went very smoothly. While Kira and I got our gear from Christy’s, Catnipped had to get her equipment from Crystals because Christy’s didn’t have shoes in her size. After the rental we picked up some sandwiches from Safeway and headed back home.

For dinner, we decided on getting delivery from a Thai placed called the Siamese Plate (The Best Thai place in Boulder for 18 years in a row and sanctioned by the Thai Government). Most of the food there was pretty decent, but Kira and I made the wrong decision on what to order. We both ordered their special, the “Three Taste Chicken.” The description reads: “Sauteed crispy chicken, tofu, shrimp or fish with three-taste sauce (sweet, sour, or spicy) and sesame seeds.” Sounds tasty right? Well, it just ended up being deep fried, dough around tiny pieces of overcooked chicken. Apparently the three tastes in the description were all “acquired” tastes since the food itself tasted absolutely terrible.

Unfortuately for Kira, the combination of the cold, lack of sleep because of my buzz saw-like snoring, and the “Three Tastes” was too much for his immune system and he started developing both flu and stomach flu like symptoms.