colorado day 2: prairie dogs and automation

We had time to kill between brunch with the groom-to-be and the arrival of Wisconsin, so we followed Kiara's directions to the Celestial Seasonings factory tour, pointing out prairie dogs along the way. We’d heard about the Mint Room, where boxes of peppermint are stacked floor to ceiling and a minute inside cleared out your sinuses for days. It was pretty amazing, though the rest of the tour (filled with old ladies and overweight tourists and hairnets) was standard corporate proselytizing. At least it was a nice corporation.

Before we could go on the tour (no photography please; proprietary machines and corporate espionage to worry about) we had to watch a film about the company's responsible, crunchy history. Employees sat around a table, brainstorming tea names and inspirational quotes to put on the packages. Kiara turned to me and whispered "You could do that, come up with quotes and flavor names." I'd had bad dreams the night before, and was grumpy and full of dark sarcasm. "Yeah sure," I said. "Like, 'We're All Gonna Die.'" Meg leaned over with a viscious hint of mischief in her smile. "No no," she said. "'We're All Gonna Die... Mint!'"
Even the guy behind us laughed.

Other winners from Meg: “Alone With Cats Mint” and “Sleepytime Never Wake Up"

next comes part two...
...or back to day one

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