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I would like to formally apologize for the excessive use of exclamation points in the previous entry.  I don’t know what came over me, but it won’t happen again.  Also, I didn’t actually see a bear.  I just zoomed in on a postcard in the gift shop, and used the photo to try to make this trip sound more interesting.

Anyway, now that that’s out of the way!  Here is a list of some random thoughts and events from the past two days for you, since I am too deliriously tired to make an actual entry. 

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THOUGHTS AND EVENTS OF THE LAST TWO DAYS
a brief list by j. coppa

•  Took a bus Wednesday to Denver (by myself, thank you jesus) and met up with some of my awesome Denver buddies to chill
• Sarah S. is my new BEST FRIEND and HERO
• Saw “The Incredible Hulk”–sucked, as expected, however the story was WAY more touchingly romantic than I thought it would be.
• Hung out with Sarah, Erin, Cecilia, Maura, Jordan, and Gabe throughout the course of my time in Denver.  All of whom were totally cool <3
• Had a Special K bar the other day for the first time. The strawberry ones are DELISH, just thought I’d share.
• Thursday we went to the Royal Gorge, a gigantic Canyon in the middle of freaking NOWHERE
• We walked across a suspension bridge, and went on a cable car over the gorge, then we went on an incline railway INTO the gorge.
• Despite all of this, the gorge didn’t really get any cooler.  It remained a gigantic hole in the ground.
• I photographed an Elk yesterday.  FOR REAL too, it wasn’t a postcard.
• I am getting totally sick of Ron and Kathy.  They act like I’ve been living in like outerspace my whole life and have never seen nature before.
  “Oh look Juliana, do you see that mountain?”  “
  “Yes Ron.  I am not BLIND.  WE ARE STANDING NEXT TO IT. OF COURSE I SEE IT.” 
  “Oh look Jules!  A squirrel!  That would make a good picture to show your folks!” 
  “WHAT THE HECK KATHY?? ITS A SQUIRREL!!!!! THERE ARE SQUIRRELS WHERE I LIVE!!!!! MY ‘FOLKS’ HAVE SEEN A SQUIRREL BEFORE!”
  “Now, this is a little Colorado specialty that we like to call LEMONADE!“
  “WTF????? Lemonade is not a Colorado specialty you IDIOT, they have that everywhere.  I hate you both.”
  I could go on, but the Ron and Kathy bullet is way too long.  This was supposed to be a brief list.
• Today we went to “The Mollie Kathleen Goldmine” in Cripple Creek, CO.
• While we were in the goldmine, there were these two girls who kept whispering and pointing at me.  Finally, at the end of the tour, they came up to me and asked me if I was Jordin Sparks.  I almost wet my pants.
• Jordin Sparks is half BLACK
• WTF WOULD JORDIN SPARKS BE DOING IN A GOLDMINE IN CRIPPLE CREEK COLORADO?
• All the roads were closed in Cripple Creek, because this weekend is the annual CHILI COOK OFF! woohoo.
• If I eat anymore Mexican food at all ever again in my entire life, I will probably kill myself.  Cause other than that Strawberry Special K bar, Mexican food is all they give me here.
• While we were out at a Mexican restaurant tonight, I met my soulmate. 
• He was waiting on our table.  Looking into his eyes was like swimming in a bottomless, crystal clear lagoon of wonder and beauty.
• We also went to an old fashioned western theater this evening
• The title of tonight’s performance was “The Arrant Knave”
• We were specifically instructed before the performance to hiss and boo whenever the villain spoke or came onstage, and to applaud wildly whenever the hero entered.
• The hero and the villain had very similar costumes and body structure, so I kept mixing them up.  People kept looking at me like I was a totally psychotic promoter of evil and hater of justice.
• Right now there is a major lightning storm going on.  Huge forks of lightning are tearing up the sky all over the place.
• If this lightning storm keeps up, and my flight home tomorrow is at all affected in any way, I will kill myself.

Ahhhh this entry is so stupid and boring! But I am too tired to upload photos.  And I thought a list would be a good way to convey my fractured thoughts, but in the end it turned out dumb.

Anyway guys, if all goes well, I will be HOME! the day after tomorrow, and you won’t have to hear any more about all my boring trips to look at rocks!  I know you’re as excited as I am.