Downtown Date

Saturdays are one of my favorite days because Jared gets home areound 4:30 or 5!! When he got home yesterday we decided to go to the pool and swim around a bit! I love swimming and it is a thousand times better with Jared!

After swimming for a couple hours we, ok I, decided I wanted to go dancing, and Jared was just dragged along. => So we set off to downtown Denver to find a place to dance!
We were going to crash a Young Single Adult dance, but we couldn't find where it was. So I had the brilliant idea to just go to a dance club, because I was sure there were many in downtown Denver. And Jared being the loving and kind husband he is protested slightly, but gave in and started driving around to find a dancing place for me.
And yep, we totally got lost! It was a fun lost tho, and Jared is a human GPS system so he got us back on course in no time! But it was interesting seeing the slums of Denver. =>
We meandered our way into the heart of downtown, and found some place to park. I had givin up on the dancing idea because we were not finding any attractive places to dance, only the ones that you would get shot if you were a white girl => And I wasn't really in the mood to get shot. =>

While driving we saw a bunch of people walking around this one street. For more like 20 blocks there is a mall! The street is even called "16th Street Mall" And at 10 o'clock at night there was a lot of hustle and bustle around there, so we decided to walk it. And boy, whas that an eye opener or what!! I can honestly say, I had never been so grateful to have standards. We saw many things, that I never thought were real. There was a guy that was so drunk he passed out, cut his hand on the way down, and peed like a gallon out of his pants, right in the middle of everyone. There were skanky musslims, yeah, I never thought you could be skanky with every part of your body covered, but trust me, you can. A restaurant caught on fire, yes real and true!

These are the fire trucks that came. Jared and I had walked by the restaurant and an alarm was going off, and it was very annoying, and a funny smell was comingout but we didnt think anything of it. Then we went up a couple levels of this structure and we saw smoke coming out of the roof and then these fire trucks pulled up, and it all made sense! Very intersting! We also say 2 lambourginis, a fricking sweet lotus, sweet mercedes & bentelys. And we saw a real Cyote Ugly. Yes, I was still nieve enough to think it was just for a movie, but no, they are real!

I wanted to go in, just so I could get the experience, but alas, I am too young! That adventure will be saved for a later day, maybe. => Then Jared and I found a gelato shop nestled in between like four different night clubs, and these were the nice kinds, not the get shot kinds.
So we got ice cream and a milk shake and parked ourselves on a bench and people watched. Let me tell you, some weird people go to night clubs! I am glad I don't party at those scenes! But, they do make for some entertaining people watching! And the bums. Haha, those guys were hilarious. One even had a sign saying "Trying to get drunk as hell, please help" Oh so funny!! Looking back on it now, we totally should have taken a picture, but we didn't. All in all, this was a very enlightening experience. I know it is hard to believe, but this was my first time in a downtown night life! Jared's favorite part of the night was just watching my reactions to things! It was fun to go visit and see "how the other half lives" but I am very grateful for my standards and values that keep me out of places like that!