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Rassling the kids
Family Photo
Last night we went out with our friends Leslie and Al to the Little Theatre of the Rockies, UNC’s performing arts theatre, where we saw “Chicago”. It was performed by students from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley’s university, and my alma mater. It was great! The props, costumes, singing, dancing, everything was well-done. There were two who really stood out from the rest and that was the actress who played Velma, McKayla Marso and the actor who played Mary Sunshine -Joseph Young. Both were graduates of UNC and came back as guest artists. We had a lot of fun. Leslie was able to get the tickets for free from a customer she knew, so that was cool too! Thanks guys for inviting us!
With our friends at the theatre
Last night we decided to go to the Greeley Moonlight Bike Ride sponsored and put on by the Greeley Police Officers’ Association. Registration was at 8:30pm and the ride was to start at 9pm. Unfortunately for us, we are now on the chickens’ schedule because we have to lock them up at night to protect them from attack which means we had to wait for them to go in their coop at dusk. When they finally put themselves to bed, we closed them up and were on our way to the Greeley Police Station on bikes.
On my bike on our way there
The Police Station is only probably about 1-2 miles from our house, so we were there in short order. They had an acoustic guitar band called Girls with Guitars playing when we arrived. We signed in, grabbed a free snack and enjoyed the music.
We had encouraged our friends Matt and Jamie (and their daughter Hailee) to come, but didn’t think they would. They surprised us by showing!
Matt and Britton at Starbucks
Me and Jamie with Police Car
The whole event is free and sponsored by area businesses in addition to the Greeley Police Department. They said they’ve been doing it for 16 years! How did we miss this all the years before? The police rode with us and police cars blocked off whole streets as we rode.
This is route- about 12 miles round trip
We rode from the police station on 10th Street went east on 8th Street, rode past downtown, rode up through UNC’s campus and Reservoir Rd, through Sanborn Park where boy scouts had set up luminaries down the path. It was really cool because they glowed as we rode past the lake. Then we stopped at the Starbucks in Westlake Plaza where they served us free drinks. That was our half-way point. At this point we could see how many people came out by the sheer number of bikes!
And of course, all the people. Here they (we) are waiting for them to call out the door prizes of which Britton won one!
Police guy is on the table yelling out prizes
From there we rode up 20th Street to near 47th Ave and then turned into a neighborhood near 16th Street, rode through Bittersweet Park where the sprinklers were on! Everyone got soaked, it was pretty cool. Then we headed back in a round about way to the police station. I was amazed at the number of people who crashed going that slow. It was kind of funny once you knew they were ok. Now I know why they wanted everyone to have a helmet and light on their bike although they didn’t turn anyone away if they didn’t have either.
Once we were back at the police station they had free sandwiches from Jimmy Johns and drinks from a company called Oogave. They gave out a few more prizes and showed some biking clips on the big movie screen -a bike-in movie! We said goodbye to Matt and Jamie and headed back home by about midnight. And yes, the chickens were sleeping safe and sound.
Our friend Shana invited us to go out to the Greeley Blues Jam 2010 this year. We thought about it, but it is an all-day concert series on a Saturday and we always have so much to do on Saturdays because we work all week. Plus it was $30 a piece and that seemed a little steep to us. However, we did get to go to the preview night last night that was also part of Greeley’s Summer Friday Fest. Which I think was great! They have all the different bands that would be coming out on Saturday perform at local bars in the downtown area free of charge.
So we met at Shana’s house and went to the Rio for dinner. There was quite a long wait, so we hung out outside and watched one of the bands on the 9th Street Plaza while trying to avoid getting wet from the rainy night.
One of the bands (Plus Orphan Annie!)
After about an hour wait, we had dinner in the Rio with Shana and some of her friends.
Out to the Rio on Blues Night
We stayed and listened to the blues band that was assigned to the Rio then we decided to mosey out through the rain to listen to a few others. We passed briefly by Dutch’s Bar, Patrick’s, and the Penalty Box. We then walked to Roasty’s. I haven’t been to Roasty’s in probably over 10 years. It is kind of a rundown old working class bar slash breakfast place owned by an interesting Greek family. We listened to a really good singer and some bare bones blues.
We also met some VERY drunk people with some pretty funny stories and antics; it was kind of strange actually. They just joined us at our table and hijacked our conversation. When we grew a little tired of their stupor, we called it a night.
Overall, it was a fun time. And I think we made the right decision. We got to see a bunch of bands, have dinner for two and not spend the whole day in the rain for less than one ticket would have cost at the Saturday event!