came to dinner. Viki brought a lovely
carrot cake. We had a pleasant dinner and
evening. It's always nice to celebrate
someone Else's birthday.
Wednesday evening we went to Namaste where
RMBL was having an event. We had some lovely
food..actually, we could have eaten more and
skipped dinner. Ian Billick, the Director of
the Rocky Mountain Biological Labs (RMBL)
spoke. He is an excellent speaker and makes
the research come alive. We met several
interesting people, one who works for Namaste
and had heard of Robert's project and is
interested in coming to see it sometime. We
also met Allison who is the Marketing person
for RMBL. I've spoken to her several times.
It was nice to put a face to the voice.
Rochelle arrived here late Thursday evening.
We picked her up in Boulder after 11 PM. The
next morning we had a lazy morning and then
she and I went to town. We did a lot of window
shopping and a little browsing. Mostly to get warm.
It was the day we should have gone to Flatirons
shopping center. It alternately rained and snowed.
Not nice at all. But, we had a good time anyway.
We had lunch at the Cheese Cake Factory and
brought left overs home as well as a huge piece
of chocolate cake for Robert. It was so big that
it made 3 large pieces.
In the evening we watched "Death at a Funeral."
That was fun and we all enjoyed laughing.
Saturday, the day was nicer so we parked at the
library and walked to the Farmers' Market. There
we bought spinach and sorrel. I had never had
sorrel, but after tasting it thought that it would
be a green that Robert would really like. And I
was right. He says he used to pick it in the
wild and eat it. The taste takes him right back
to New England and his childhood.
We had planned to eat at the Tea House, but so had
everyone else. We walked to the Kitchen and had
lunch there.
As we headed back to the car we passed Tebo's new
enterprise, The Arete...as Robert points out it
should be L'Arete. This is a building with
offices on the first floor, parking in the sub-
floor and the top 3 floors have condos ranging
in price from ~700 thousand to more than 2 million.
We looked at them all. They are nicely appointed
and have lovely woodwork. The kitchen's were all
the same with stainless steel appliances including
a 6-burner range. But, I was happy to note that
I had absolutely no desire to live there. It
would be the same as living in an apartment except
that you owned it. I would miss being able to
just walk out the door and be outside. It was
fun to look at them though.
In the evening Martha and Ariel came for dinner. Carl
had to work so he missed out. That was disappointing.
We had a good evening. I was pretty tired and
managed to over-dress a lovely fresh spinach salad.
Aside from that, things went quite well.
We had brunch Sunday morning and a lazy morning.
I knitted and Rochelle studied a little, but
mostly we just talked.
We took her to the Broker for the 3 o'clock shuttle
to DIA for her 6:10 PM flight back to LA. She just
called to say all had gone well. The shuttle people
had really scared her when she changed her reservation
from 2 PM to 3 PM for her 6 o'clock flight. The guy
had told her she'd miss her flight and was quite
nasty. She got to DIA by 4PM despite the fact the
driver stopped to get gas. Her flight was bumpy,
but she arrived safely. She had an mid-term this
morning, but "It was easy." She has two more
this week.
