Bachelor Party in Colorado!

My best friend Aaron, who I have known for twenty years, is getting married August 3. I have been asked to be one of the grooms men in his wedding and happily accepted. Aaron is going to marry a beautiful woman named Jenn who is a school teacher. They are both great for each other and I'm excited for both of them. Aaron is now officially retiring from the bachelor "rat race" and chaotic dating world -- lucky him!

We tried to decide between various places for a Bachelor party. Among the top choices were Amsterdam, Vegas, New Orleans, Vancouver, Colorado and perhaps one of the various Carribean islands. Since a dozen or so guys are going to be attending the party from all over the country, it would have been too difficult to make Amsterdam happen, so that was crossed off the list.

Sin City (Las Vegas, NV) was a natural second runner-up choice, but that's something that everyone has done before and we wanted to try something new. Besides, I am now able to get out to Vegas about 3 or 4 times a year, so there isn't any great need to do it again in June.

We went through the rest of the choices and finally decided that Colorado would be an exciting and fresh experience for everyone. We are flying into Colorado on Thursday, June 7 and staying at the downtown Marriott. The plan is to grab a few cocktails and drinks and get everyone oriented and ready for the big day on Friday.

On Friday, we're traveling one and a half hours to the whitewater rafting site located on the Royal Gorge (which is one of the country's best rivers for whitewater rafting). We'll spend 8 hours in a guided class and then go down 4/5'ths of the rapids on the Royal Gorge. Lunch will be provided for everyone and cold beers will be waiting for us once we kick that river's ass (or the river kicks our ass).

Saturday we'll take horses out and ride them through some mountain trails (please, no Brokeback Mountain jokes!) Once we get back, we'll check out the Denver nightlife downtown and hit a few bars and eventually find the upscale strip joints. I want to see some Colorado boobies!

Sunday is recovery day which will include a group breakfast and then some hugs and beers before the team splits up and heads back home.

Southwest fares are extremely inexpensive at only $99 each way flying out of Baltimore (BWI) and into Denver Colorado. While I'm out there, I'm going to try and find some local contacts to help me put Denver on the map for Zooplee (Zooplee is the name of my travel site that will be partially online in the early summer).

I'll make sure to take plenty of pictures of the trip and post my experiences with whitewater rafting (which should be quite interesting, since I've never gone rafting before -- especially not level 5 rivers). The horse trails will be a lot of fun because I love riding.

Colorado look out -- here we come!!!