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Memorial Day Weekend Part 2

Can you think of any better way to start your day than having a giant turkey leg and a chicken gyro?! Nope, I didn’t think so! These beauties were consumed at Day 2 of the Boulder Creek Fest. Sunday, my housemates and I walked around the festival for several hours, checking out all the Boulder craziness, eating tons of food, and buying random things.

One of the random things I bought was a geode! This bad boy came all the way from a city in Mexico. I picked out the size I wanted and Nicole was kind enough to barter him down! The geode goes into a guillotine type of contraption to be cracked open.

The inside is AWESOME! I’ll take a picture soon and post it. It has a cloudy white quarts inside with angel wings!

As if the breakfast we had in the morning wasn’t enough, I bought cheesecake on a stick as my lunch! Believe me, this felt great in my stomach during my soccer game later that afternoon. ICK.

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Monday was the Bolder Boulder 10K run! This is when the craziest of the crazies come out and put on a good show! There were runners dressed up as gorillas, runners painted completely in gold, tons of bands playing, baby pools set up, and my favorite, a slip ‘n slide! We all went through, but I had a BUCKET of water poured on top of me! My feet were squishing for at least 2 more hours!  People also give out food such as chips, fruit, cupcakes, bacon, marshmallows, and beer. I snagged a chocolate cupcake, a handful of bacon ran across the finish line with them for a post-race snack!  (The race for us was more of a fun event, rather than a competitive event. We all finished at the same tie at around 10 min/mile.)

After we walked through the expo at the end of the race, we headed to Mountain Sun on Pearl St. to see the professional runners go by, and have a FREE BEER!  The professional runners start later in the morning and they were sooo impressive. The first place woman hit 23 minutes at just around mile 5! Amazing!

My lunch was a BLT, a cup of tomato/corn soup, and a blackberry wheat beer. YUM!

To continue with the Memorial Day weekend festivities, we hit up the Creek Fest to see the duck race and of course eat delicious food. I bought 1 duck this year and really thought that he could beat out the 100s of other duckies he was racing against. We all sat by the creek and waited for them to swim by. Unfortunately, he lost, but he’s still a winner to me.

After having a cocktail on the roof top of K’s China, we headed home for a BBQ feast! The dinner menu consisted of: BBQ ribs, BBQ chicken, asparagus with tons of garlic, grilled/steamed veggies, and rice made with black beans and coconut milk.  The rice had so much heat from cayenne pepper and sriracha, I chopped up a mango to put on top. Sweet, savory, and spicy.  The veggie packages consisted of 1 zucchini, 1 yellow summer squash, 1/2 onion, 4 carrots, 3 orange bell peppers, all coated in tons of seasonings. These were wrapped up in foil packages and put on the grill for 5-8 minutes. If you haven’t done this before, I strongly suggest this method of cooking!

The photos of the food only represent a fraction of what I actually ate this weekend. If I actually showed you the amount of food consumed, you would never take me seriously as a dietitian. I’ll just say, I think I ate my weight in food.