What a day!

DAY TEN was quite a day. It began with the rosy light of early dawn on the freshly fallen snow outside our bedroom window

Dawn at 5657 Sunshine Canyon Drive

After breakfast, a repairman arrived to try to fix Rob's storage unit that keeps wine at a constant 55 degrees. It had started to malfunction and go down to 20 degrees. Not good for the wine! After he left, Ellen and I were free to do as we wished until we had to pick up Betsey at 3pm. So we decided to take a ride up Sunshine Canyon Drive, through the village of Gold Hill, and on to the Peak to Peak Highway and over to Ward, CO, a very funky little town that friends had told us about.

The General Store in Gold Hill

Ward, Colorado - an 1860's mining town revived in the 1970's by hippies

The drive to Ward and back was gorgeous - a blue sky day with great scenery. Here are a few shots from out of the car window:

These scenes are all just a few miles from Rob and Betsey's house

After we came back from Ward we went down into Boulder to the University of Colorado campus to Old Main where there is a museum of Colorado History that was featuring an exhibit of the UofC campus made out of Lego. It was amazing:

Everything in this scene is Lego - even the mountains

The Quadrangle with a whimsical excavation of a dinosaur skeleton in foreground

Folsom Stadium - the players are Buffaloes (the nickname of the UofC football team)

After we picked up Betsey, we came home and got ready to go out to eat at the Hotel Boulderado, and then - the highlight of the day - go to a dance performance by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, one of the premier dance companies in the world. The meal at the Hotel Boulderado was delicious, and they even catered to Betsey's macro-biotic diet. Here's the hotel:

Hotel Boulderado

Then we went to Mackey Auditorium on the UofC campus for the dance performance. Here's Mackey as it appears in the Lego exhibit:

Lego version of Mackey Auditorium

 And the real stage:

The prosenium at Mackey

Rob and Betsey before the performance:

Betsey's looking and feeling great!

They did not permit photography, but these scenes from the Bill T. Jones website are exactly what we saw in their absolutely stunning performance. The music was a live string quartet drawn from the College of Music, and the dancers were absolutely out of this world!

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

It was an especially full day for Betsey who not only went to work and then had her radiation treatment, but also had an hour session with an energy healer at noon, who she felt did good work with her and she felt stronger when she came out (she'll see her weekly), and also had her weekly appointment with her radiation oncology doctor, who feels everything is going well. Betsey is amazing!

We leave in the morning for Alpine, WY. Thor and Julia, friends from Columbia, MO, arrive tomorrow evening. It's quite a remarkable time at the Shay's!!!