20 steps to having a great saturday in boulder (or, what I did yesterday)

1. Wake up early and eat a bowl of cereal. (Yes, I'm still on the cereal kick.)
2. Park downtown, and walk the Creek Path to the Farmer's Market, and check out the wonderful array of produce, flowers, hippies, and organic products. Be sure to sample the organic peanut butter--it's amazing.
3. Walk down Pearl Street, eat lunch outside, while listening to the local musicians playing on the street.
4. Visit an old coworker/friend, who now works in a store on Pearl Street. While talking to him, learn a new phrase, "out where Jesus lost his sandal," meaning "out in the middle of nowhere." Also, convince him that he must get in a photo with you, taken with a Polaroid camera.
5. On the way back to your car, stop by the Trident to cool off with a refreshing and delicious iced vanilla latte. Then browse the poetry selection at the attached bookstore.
6. Head towards the Hill and drive by the house that you will hopefully be moving into at the end of August. Drive by it several times. Pray hard that your application is approved.
7. Drive just one block down the street to your friends' house. Think about how fun it would be to live so close to these friends. Stop for awhile, visit, catch up on life, and talk to a traveler from France about how great craigslist.com is.
8. From there, head towards Longmont, home of the Boulder County Fair.
9. Upon arriving at the fair, take lots of Polaroids of the ferris wheel, carousel, chickens, and longhorn cattle.
10. Play a game, and win a fish (pictured here)!
11. Name the fish "Gordon" after your long lost friend, Josh Gordon, who has recently moved to Bosnia.
12. Don't leave the fair without first conversing with a true carnie (born and raised in the funnel cake booth), eating a funnel cake, and drinking a fresh lemonade shakeup.
13. Eat a delicious pasta dinner at home.
14. Drive to Pearl Street, and buy a book of haikus by Jack Kerouac.
15. Sit outside at the Book End coffee shop, sip some iced green tea, write a letter to a friend, and read some haikus while listening to tribal drum beats coming from the hippies pounding on buckets and other random objects just a few feet away.
16. Participate in the Zip Code Man's show. Test his knowledge by throwing out the zip code of your tiny hometown in Ohio. Be amazed and entertained when he knows where you live, calling it "the farm just outside of Chillicothe, Ohio."
17. Stop by Ventana Maya, the mysterious window in the wall, just off of Pearl Street for a little midnight snack of tostadas and salsa.
18. Stare in wonder at the miniature size of your snack. Ask yourself how they get limes to grow the size of cherry tomatoes and why you gave the man $3 for it. Be tempted to go back to the window and say, "What is this? A snack for ants? It needs to be at least three times this size."
19. Go home and crash on your roommate's bed for awhile. Share lots of laughs.
20. Sleep.