I had a really annoying night … though it started and ended pretty well. It was just the bit in the middle that sucked.
I was in class all day and we were set to pick up our first CSA share in Boulder (a good 30 min from our house) so we decided to eat out instead of cooking. So we picked up T from her sitter's and went to Sweet Tomatoes. It was fun as usual (I'm a huge fan of buffets with toddlers since you don't have to wait for food and decreause the likelihood of a hunger-induced meltdown). After that we headed off to The People's Republic of Boulder.
Boulder is a hard thing to get if you're not from the Denver area, probably. It's our own little slice of California. Northern, not southern. Fruits and nuts. Granola. Hippies. Green this and that. Organic. Extremely liberal, bordering on socialist. Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se. That's just how it is. It brings a lot of neat stuff … like CSA. Well the CSA people we've been dealing with have been a bit flaky all along. Their phone was disconnected for quite a while. And their voicemailbox runneth over the rest of the time. Their website is down or screwy sometimes. Not the most professional operation … but what the heck. They're modern farmers not dotcommers, so we were fairly forgiving. Our share pickup was supposed to be at 19th and Violet.
We had a bit of trouble finding it. This was partly due to us misreading Google Maps … and partly due to the fact that Boulder (unlike Denver) is not laid out on a grid system and numbered streets and named streets arbitrarily change direction, change name and end for no apparent reason. This makes navigation spotty at best.
Pick-up was between 4 and 7 PM tonight. We arrived at our destination right around 6:50. No one there at all, let alone anyone who looked like they had a sack of produce for us. So basically we drove (over) an hour out of our way for NOTHING. I was not pleased. Either we were at the wrong place, or they left before we could get our share. Either way, not terribly impressed this first week. And of course, we couldn't reach them. And they still haven't called us back.
Hopefully we can get this sorted out. Otherwise, I'll be asking Discover Card to refund our $$. But at least the night has ended nicely. More Wii fit fun … and a nice run.
** This is a quote from a movie. Bonus points if you can tell me which one. Also, I harbor no ill will towards hippy Boulderites or hippies in general. So don't hate mail me, plz.