Dinner with Amanda-Boulder

Good People--2 of my favorites--Jan and Amanda. We met Amanda in Boulder after work. We were in north Denver, getting some "better" news about our 401K.
Good Food--as most of you know Boulder has lots of great places to eat. Our first choice was Frasca's but it looked too uppity and our 401k news wasn't that good for Frasca's prices. Our financial planner recommended Sunflower, so we stopped there for Happy Hour, price was right for beer $2.50-no draft though--so we left. Our planner also suggested The Med, she thought it was lively (crowded), very noisy, great food and a very long menu--she was right on! On all accounts. We decided to do tapas, you know the small plates, hanger steak, fried mozzarella cheese, cabrese salad, enpadilla (feta cheese, spinach in a turnover thing), Catalan shrimp, falafel (fried chickpea), bruschetta, prochetta with cantaloupe, cayenne chicken. Our favorites were hanger steak, shrimp, burschetta, prochetta, fried mozzarella and cabrese (your thinking that was almost everything-you are correct). They had a large dessert tray--we chose vabaglione (vanilla Italian custard with Grand Marnier & orange syrup topping) and chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream. The vabaglione was light, very tart and it only cost $4. The old stand by--chocolate cake was very good for us chocolateholics-$7.
Good Exercise--short run earlier that day but yesterday I took a cycle spinning class at another fitness center with the people from our church that are going to do Ride the Rockies. Learned some new things about heart monitors--women's hearts beat faster because their hearts are smaller, a good recovery rate is 15-20 beats in a minute from peak after you stop and Lance Armstrong has a resting (right after you wake up) heart rate of 36. I went from 152 to 135 and my somewhat of resting rate is 58, I say somewhat because it is difficult to get your heart rate when you first wake without already having your monitor on--I didn't.
Great Retirement--Our planner reminded us that we are blessed to receive a pension that we can live on.