Dream Project in Denver

Brukab, Katherine, and I made it to Denver yesterday afternoon for our Dream Project workshop presentation at the College Board Western Regional Forum in Colorado, but our hotel doesn't offer complimentary Wi-Fi. So sadly, I had to wait until today when I actually had a chance to go to Starbucks to use the internet.

I'll keep it brief since I don't want to stay out here too long. Kinda sketchy. :P

We flew in yesterday and just explored the city for the afternoon and evening before finishing up our presentation. I'd never been outside of the airport in Denver, so this was really my first trip to the city itself.

So first at the hotel I took a picture of the view. They said it's a mountain view, so that's pretty cool. But Denver is crazy flat with mountains way off in the distance.

We decided to walk around the city center--it feels really small compared to Seattle. But we found a giant bear outside the convention center.

We then walked towards dinner in another part of the city and saw a view of the Pepsi Center, where the Denver Nuggets (NBA team) play. We're aiming to go to the Nuggets vs. Celtics game on Monday night, so that's where we'd head.

Finally, we went to dinner in an Italian restaurant that was pretty packed. In fact, most restaurants were packed because, I guess, there's some sort of restaurant week special happening this week in Denver. Food was good though.

We had some appetizers at the bar first because we were waiting for our table to clear--delicious!

Then we had pizza for dinner, which we had to box up for our midnight snacks.

But then we got dessert too since it looked so tasty.

The restaurant itself was located in a nice little square that's supposed to be kind of historic, so that was cool.

Then we went home and worked on our presentation. It was pretty fun working late into the night.

This morning we woke up and decided to work on our presentation more and actually practice, so we missed the morning and early afternoon sessions.

However, we did see some of our friends from UW such as Kay Lewis, the director of Student Financial Aid who really helped us to get out to Denver and also Jim Rawlins, who was formerly the Associate Director of Admissions at UW before taking the executive director of admissions job at Colorado State.

Our presentation itself went from 2:45-4 pm, but we started a few minutes late waiting for folks to trickle in. It went very well though, and we had a blast.

Tonight, we watched a bit of the Academy Awards and then Brukab and I headed out to Starbucks (for internet), while Katherine stayed back to do homework. Brukab just left to head back too, so I'm about to leave in a bit as well.

Dinner out again tonight and then probably gear up for tomorrow. Should be another exciting day. Hopefully, I'll have access to internet again and can blog. It's been great so far though. TTFN.