Yes that's right: now that I am 25, I no longer am allowed to be on my dad's health insurance plan. Which, of course, means that I no longer have any health insurance. So, based on my mom's advice, I decided to go on a DANGEROUS spring break trip with some friends. We had to drive for 8-9 hours through the middle of the night and early morning...
... to make it to Denver, Colorado, where we spent two days skiing! And yes, I did ski some dangerous BLACK DIAMOND SLOPES (not shown) !!!
Also, we spent some time touring downtown Denver. We came across a large concrete area that explicitly indicated that swimming was prohibited...
...but I brazenly challenged the police to shoot me with rubber bullets, by SWIMMING IN IT ANYWAY!
Later, we went to the Denver Art Museum, which was an excellent museum. It had one my my favorite pieces of art, seen below, wherein I was attacked by no less than FOUR HUNGRY FOXES in restaurant gone mad.
After escaping that, we exited the museum, only to find that Rafael's car had been towed. Ouch! That costs an arm and a leg in Denver! This was probably the part of the trip that was the most dangerous, in fact. We arrived (3 hours later) at the impound place, where there was no building, no office, no lights, no nothing- just a chain wire fence, a ferocious dog and a 16-year old dressed up like a gangsta. We had to pay cash, no questions asked, and were frankly happy to get out with our lives (and our wallets [and our car]). Although, as we did have five men and a dog of our own, I drafted some mental contingency plans just in case we were forced to bust out of the place ourselves.
Later, Rafael and I went to a historic restaurant in Denver, where the dangerous things we ate included rattlesnake, alligator tail, and (don't ask) rocky mountain oysters. But we survived!
The final dangerous activity I chose to undertake during this spring-break-without-insurance was on the way back from skiing, when I boldly BROKE IN to Jurassic Park, where I posed with GIANT DINOSAURS!!! (or their foot prints anyway [don't worry it was legal]).
So yeah, I had a good time.
