So don't come to town and talk trash about Elway, in other
words?
"Oh, no no no! You'll get kicked right out. Or if you say you've
never heard of
John Elway, or that you're not really into football.
Yeah, that means you're from out of town. You're just shot. Even my
mother eventually got into
football, because you basically have no
choice. Now she loves it. She was practically crying when they won
the Super Bowl."
Tell me more about the ChopHouse - that sounded great.
"It's right near the football stadium. It's in lower downtown -
people there call it LoDo. It used to be a not-so-nice area, but
it's been redone and now it has all of these great restaurants up
and down the row. There's also a great Asian-fusion restaurant
called
Mao in Cherry Creek, which is the cool shopping spot in
Denver. If you want to eat cheap, you have to go to Wahoo's Fish
Taco. It's kind of fast food-y. They've got them all over Colorado,
and they are yummy."
Let's move on to Boulder, which is the town you really adore,
right?
"Yeah, my mother has lived there for 12 years."
If you've got one day to spend in town, what
should you do?
"Well, I love to work out, so first I'd probably go to this great
little gym downtown called Boulder's Pulse. You just got off a
plane, so you need to stretch out, right? The only drawback is that
there's a mezzanine inside the gym with a coffee shop and bagel
store, so while you work out you have to smell bagels toasting. But
I guess you can use it as incentive - to jump off the stairmaster
and into the bagel store. You can go work out there just for the
day or you can buy a weeklong pass. Then I'd go to the Pearl Street
Mall, which is Boulder's great outdoor shopping area. They've got
live music, street performers, shopping, restaurants - it's
beautiful. The mall is also great for kids because there are cool
statues that kids can climb on. And don't miss the Boulder Book
Store, which is an amazing, three-story, yummy bookstore."