grace.kindness.peace.disruption.pain.processing.rinse.repeat.have a nice day.

The long hours of practice have finally paid off. Today I played my first concert at Red Rocks. Lucas and I visited, hiked, learned at the visitor's center that a visit to higher altitude should not begin with a beer and followed up the following morning with a run (oops), and played guitar at the world-renowned concert arena. This place is so loved by musicians that it won the musician's venue award umpteen times in a row. It won so many times, in fact, that they took it off the ballot and renamed the award the Red Rocks Award. So you can imagine my excitement to "finally" get some playtime there.

Lucas and I quickly became an attraction for fellow visitors. We obliged by performing "Rocky Mountain High" (RIP John Denver) … well, we sang the chorus several times. We enjoyed our first concert at Red Rocks. Maybe I'll be back some day.

We followed up our concert with a (free) cold one at the Coors Brewery. The tour was quite interesting. The set up at the brewery reminded me a lot of the pharmaceutical manufacturing process I love so much. Unfortunately, the tour guide didn't know the answers to my beer testing and laboratory information management system questions. She was great otherwise, but I guess she missed that day in tour guide training.

I'm writing this entry from Boulder, having paid another visit to this beautiful town to see friends. Hopefully I'll figure out how to get back up the hill to snap a picture of the breathtaking view I toolishly was unable to get two days ago.