When anyone says “Cinco de Mayo,” the first thing I think of is Colorado, naturally. (working on my sarcasm). Anyway, I wanted to visit Patrick in Colorodo before he moves (!) and dates that lined up for us happened to fall on the weekend Cinco De Mayo. Thus, Boulder for Cinco de Mayo.
I spy with my little eye…Patrick’s true love.
Thursday night when I landed Patrick picked me up and we stayed up chatting. SO fun. Bestie catch up! And then the very next day I got to shadow Patrick’s 6th grade class. Before school, we stopped at MINE coffee shop (all MINE MINE MINE). Though at 8am I already had the energy of a 12 year old and was bouncing off of the walls… so I ordered my first ever “decaf cappuccino.” It was delicious
Reppin’ Jamaica.
Patrick’s class was the science class I wished I had had in 6th grade. He literally grabbed his guitar, stood on his desk, and taught parody rap songs to the kids, which were tailored to the school/lessons of the day. The kids are also allowed to stand on the desks during this time. I considered enrolling, I have so much I could learn…is that legal or…?
Another perk was that it was flower day…which, was a day where we learned about flowers. Beyond the standing on desks and rapping to acoustic melodies by Dr. Marti, we got to go outside and collect, and then dissect, actual, real-life flowers.
Choosing favorites.
Being a kid is great but being a grown-up his even better. And at the end of the day, we were ready for some grown-up time. We went to Tim’s house, another teacher from school, to hangout on the lawn without an agenda.
…In fact, our agenda was to make an agenda. But first, a jam sesh. And after I laughed along as they planned their “detention party” for Patrick’s going away fiesta. The rule was that you had to come in an outfit that was breaking the dress code and the party slips were written up on real detention slips. Genius.
Pre-yahtzee: Introducing the band, The Nawtzees!
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Before Patrick was to move in a month or two, I asked him if there was any part of his house that he didn’t have any memory in and if we could make one. He said that he didn’t have a memory on the landing stairs next to his room. We decided to come up with some activity for that memory-less corner of his home. That afternoon we went on a hike in Gregory Canyon — one of Patrick’s favorite trails and it was easy to see why. As we hiked we brainstormed ideas. It was spring time and we were inspired to gather up flowers (it was the day after flower day, after all) and scatter them all across that landing spot at the top of his stairs.
Afterwards, we held led a laughter yoga session, complete with a lie down to really crush those wild flowers into the ground and make cleaning up harder, and also to fill the space with some really great energy. Voila! A broom and mop were needed and a memory was born.
Floor-al designs.
It was time to head to the Cinco de Mayo party that Alex was throwing!! She and I didn’t get to talk as much as I’d have liked (wish we had! She hosted a lovely party <3) but there were so many great guests in attendance and party games to play including HQ trivia as a group. Unbelievably enough the savage question was:
“Which one of these disputed territories is NOT claimed by Georgia?
- Transnistria
- Abkhazia
- South Ossetia”
If you’re a reader of my blogs, then you know that Patrick and I were freaking out. He was on the mystery trip and we were together in Transnistria!!! How CRAZY is it that one of the questions was about an obscure place that we went together this same year?!!!! Insanity.
Party people.
So maybe after like a margarita or two, Mckayla, someone I had literally just met invited me to her Halloween party. Excited, social Sammi was, like, really happy–I mean really happy about being invited. I was so excited that I literally asked her for her address right then and there. For a party. Five months from now. In a different state. But you know, we just connected…at least I thought we did. She may not feel the same way. I was over eager. Which I know, doesn’t sound like me. Someone, thankfully interrupted my aggressive friend making to ask Mckalya if she liked art and her answer was: I’m open-minded. What a great response! From now on whenever someone asks me if I like music, I’m just going to say “well, I’m open-minded.” Also, I’ll see her at that party in October.
Money, Glamour, Fame.
Another cool thing about this party (besides making new friends, laughing hysterically, eating good food, and mild debauchery) was seeing Patrick partially combine friend groups — success!
Cinco de Mayo, the only Mayonnaise themed holiday.
A meme that deserves a mention: During the party, I got a text from Bel who was at a seperate party back in Pittsburgh that (apparently) had some really amazing, fresh baked cookies. She was gushing about the cookies, how many she ate, on and on, and then…A SECOND BATCH CAME OUT!! She sent me a text that said:
“Here’s actual footage of me when the second batch came out.” – Bel
I laughed for like 5 minutes straight and started crying. How lucky am I to have a best friend who can make me laugh until I cry through text from a different state?
On Sunday morning Patrick took me to the airport and we left with plans to see each other again soon. Maybe this year we’ll go to another obscure territory that’s unrecognized as a country so we can win another HQ trivia question.
Hasta pronto,
‘mi
PS. Congratulations to our friend Liz D. on her upcoming wedding, bless up yourself!
Adventuresam 
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