It turns out that...

...you can live at 6,400 ft. year-round and still get altitude sickness when you go skiing at 10,700 ft.

Badly enough that after one run down the bunny slope (it's your first time on skis), you spend the rest of the afternoon at the ski hill and then the whole 2.5-hour ride home in a neighbor's car vomiting, requiring six stops on the way home, the first time to clean out the car and re-seat all the kids, and the next five times to pull over to the side of the road every time you're getting sick. Meanwhile your little sister decides she hates skiing because the boots hurt her feet and it's scary to slide downhill like that when you're tiny, your dad forgets to put sunblock on his face, and he's totally exhausted and dispirited after the much-anticipated neighborhood Dads & Kids day at the ski slopes.

Cross that one off the Colorado Bucket List.

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...you need not have curly hair to play Goldilocks in the school play, as Edith had imagined. 

And it turns out you can put down Mama Bear, Chair #2, and the Bee Chorus as your top three choices for parts and still get cast as Goldilocks.

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...if you fly between Denver and New Orleans in the month of March, you could be surrounded on the plane in one direction by a crowd of Colorado students headed for Bourbon St. for spring break and in the other direction by Louisiana students headed to the ski slopes for spring break. As one passenger said, we might consider more spring breaks as an economic stimulus measure.