We woke up around 8:30 and had some cereal and an english muffin with pb for breakfast. Since we were in desperate need of doing laundry we took some time to do that this morning while we planned out our day. Once the laundry was all finished we jumped on the one speeds Ed was letting us use and headed towards the Verizon store to switch over Joey's phone. Jesse, our Warm Showers host from Fort Collins was nice enough to give Joe his old "tough" flip phone since he had moved to a smart phone. This was a life saver because Joey's phone hasn't worked all that great in a while and would turn off whenever it felt like it and not hold a charge very well. This got even worse after the sprinkler incident in Kimball, since his phone was in the pocket hanging from the ceiling of the tent (it got soaked like everything else). After Joe had the phone all switched over we went to the grocery store to get some lunch meet and bread for lunch along with some more Ramen, some yogurt, and a carton of Thin Mint ice cream! We headed back to Ed's and enjoyed our lunch. While we were eating, I was looking at the newspaper and saw that Obama was coming to Colorado University to speak tomorrow and they were giving free tickets out to the public today. When we looked up the information, we found they had just started giving them out at noon and it was only 1pm. We decided to give it a shot and ride over to the college to see if we could get a ticket. Sure enough after about a 45 minute wait we were one of the last 30 people to get a ticket! So we are going to see Obama speak tomorrow, what an interesting story to add to our tour! We ended up being in a video from the local newspaper too, which we found out thanks to Grammy (you can see us walking away with bicycles around 14seconds... here is the link: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_20461453/members-public-wait-hours-tickets-see-obama-at?source). We almost couldn't believe that we ended up being able to get tickets since it was such a spur of the moment thing. Before we knew about the Obama tickets, we were planning on going to another brewery called Avery Brewing Co. So after we had our tickets, we rode over so we could take another tour. We called family to share our excitement for tomorrow and then each got a glass of beer before the tour. Even though I am not a beer drinker, the glass I had had was good, it had a little fruity tint to it. It was interesting to be able to make comparisons between this brewery and one of a much larger size such as New Belgium Brewery that we went on the other day. After the tour we rode back to Ed's to figure out what to do for dinner. We decided to go out for pizza at a pizza place in downtown Boulder, right near the walking mall. We had some amazing pizza and then went for a walk around the Pearl Street walking mall. Since I had a box of brownie mix left because it was buy one get one free the other day, I made some brownies when we got back to Ed's. We went in his amazing hot tub before bed which definitely helped sooth any sore muscles I had. Tomorrow morning we plan to go on the hike that we ended up not doing today because of deciding to try for Obama tickets. It should be another fun filled day tomorrow. We rode quite a bit around town on the single speeds, probably around 10 miles or so total.
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