Boattown Friday.

Friday was an adventure. What was supposed to be a relaxing, chill afternoon/evening on the town with friends turned out to be much more.

The day started not early at all when I decided it was one of those days to not get out of bed until noon. After snagging some lunch with everybody's favorite cripple Eli, we decided it would be a good day to cruise around town, especially since Eli has been going pretty stir crazy in his room with a broken femur. So we met up with our friend and fellow Alpine Campus blogger Bobbie Jo, who was up at the school for some sort of meeting, a began our adventure.

It started off with us purchasing $2 movie tickets in the cafeteria after lunch so because we were going to see Wolfman at 5:30pm. From there we headed to Bobbie's car where our troubles began. Bobbie had left the lights on while she was at her meeting, and being that she has an older car, the battery was drained in no time and the car wouldn't start. So Eli and I headed up to the dorms while she went to maintenance to get her car jumped. As it turns out, maintenance gave her a dead battery jumper so she had to get someone leaving the lot to jump it.

After that already rough start to the trip, we cruised into town to a health foods store on Yampa and 11th called Bamboo Market Health Foods since Eli was looking for some calcium or tea to help with bone growth for his femur. He unfortunately didn't find quite what he was looking for as well as things there are a bit pricey, so we headed down the street to Rummagers, which is one of the three thrift stores Steamboat has to offer. Here is where the idea was sparked for the jacket contest still going on in the blog before this one, which you all will hopefully check out and vote on. So we all ended up buying a couple things for nice and cheap and then continued on around town.

Next stop was one of my absolute favorite places around Steamboat, Off The Beaten Path Bookstore. Bobbie Jo was looking for a book called "Bananas: The fruit that

shaped America (or something like that, I can't remember). They unfortunately didn't have it, and neither did Epilogue Book Store down the road. Even though that was a bummer, our spirits were certainely lifted when we went to Fuzziwigs Candy Shop. This is by far the craziest and most awesome candy store I've ever seen, so I'm sorry I completely forgot to take pictures of it. They have every kind of candy imaginable along with a bunch of toys including my personal favorites, Legos.

From there, we headed to another awesome store in the Boat, All That Jazz. This store is full of music and music attire, as these next few pictures hopefully illustrate.

Mad CD's.

Vinyl's for record collectors.
Some nice sound systems.

Reppin' Skullcandy.

Bobbie Jo couldn't get enough modeling.

After All That Jazz, we decided to take a break from walking around and chilled at Bobbie Jo's place for a bit. From there we rolled to Quizno's where the adventure went down hill. I was drove since Bobbie Jo was sick of driving. When I parked at Quizno's, I tried to pull right up to the curb, but little did I know that there was a hole full of snow between the ice and the curb. After grabbing the food, we were going to park closer to the theater, but our snow hole friend had other plans. We attempted to pull with no luck, even when myself and a kind Quizno's employee were pushing on the front bumper, trying to rock the car out of the hole. Wit h no luck and after my leg became soaked in muddy snow, we decided to just head to the movie and hope that our friend Corey would pull us out after with his Land Rover.

The following are our valiant attempts to get the car out and hole that followed.

Wolfman ended up being really good, even with a freezing cold wet leg. Thankfully, Corey did come to the rescue and we made it out with no damage. The adventure was still not quite over either. After escaping the Quizno's parking lot, we headed to one last stop at Urbane to check out the new stuff they had as well as some deals. While there, I found this gem that I just had to share with the world. It's a collaboration between Element Skateboards and The Mountain, the sick company that makes awesome wolf tees. Enjoy.


From Urbane, it was finally back to the dorms for us. I was completely exhausted and still wet and muddy, so needless to say I went to bed mad early that night. Overall it was a really fun day, and minus the getting the car stuck, I hope to do it all again soon. Peace.