Expedition 5280: Getting Close

Friday, September 26, 2008

Getting Close

With Will's arrival right around the corner, Steve and I are "living large". As large as a full-term preggo woman can at least! Obviously we're super psyched about William joining our life, but we know it will no longer be "just the two of us". This evening we enjoyed our waning freedom by hitting the movies (Eagle Eye).

Tomorrow night though will be the creme de la creme! Steve has wanted to see a concert at Red Rocks for as long as I can remember. I checked the concert schedule for the next couple weeks and noticed that Sigur Ros was going to be passing through this weekend! They haven't been to the states since 2001! I found what I think will be fantastic seats on Craigslist. The woman we bought them from said she had other offers but liked my email which essentially stated that "even if I go into labor, he'll just have to wait..."

This is the cover of the first Sigur Ros cd I purchased. Oddly enough, I learned of this great band while in a skate shop at Vintage Fair Mall. When I asked someone from the store about the artist, I had to have them write it down for me. I went strait to the Wherehouse and bought this cd.

Here's a link to one of our favorite Sigur Ros songs/video Hoppipolla. Steve found the video and made me smile in a moment of crazy hormones. Thanks love!

1 comment:

lizcannon said...: dang you, if i would have known about that concert, i woulda pused you down to steal your tickets. Sus told me about that band forever ago and i made fun of her for so long, but eventually fell in love.... luckyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. hope you had fun!; September 29, 2008 at 11:42 PM

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A Recent Rare Phenomenon

Last night we were at a local coffee shop with some friends. While sitting by the widow, we noticed that it had unexpectedly begun snowing. A few minutes later we all looked up to notice bright flashes, similar to that from a camera flash reflecting in the window. Since you never see lightning (or hear thunder) during a snow storm we all looked around for the abnoxiously bright flash from someones camera. It was nowhere to be found. Next thing we hear the boom of thunder and immediately car alarms start sounding. At this point we all look outside to see what looks like hail....but its not. It is simply pea sized snowballs that are falling like rocks from the sky. Needless to say, this was the first time any of us had experienced anything like this. The snowballs were not hard but soft...just like snow. The lightning and thunder continued for a while longer, as most everyone who was in the coffee shop either was glued to the windows or went outside for closer inspection. Bethany, who was sitting with our group, said that she had heard something like this happening before and said it was called a "thundersnow storm". Well, it is a true and rare event that is even more rare in a "land locked" state like Colorado. Here is the local newspaper headline from the Rocky Mountain News: "We were enjoying the lights, sights and sounds of a thundersnow that rolled through downtown around 9:30 p.m. And, we didn't make up that word thundersnow, either. It's a real, but rare phenomenon (and very rare in landlocked Colorado), according to a quickie Google search. In the simplest of terms, cold air meets warm air. As those two air masses interact, it causes friction, or a convection (up- and-down movement of air), which if violent enough, can cause lightning and thunder".

If you are still interested, check out the Wikipedia article for it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow