I'm off on an adventure!: Denver Snapshots

The Denver sky put on quite a show for me as a welcome home.

I went almost immediately into rehearsals for the Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit. (Out of character manicure courtesy of my Aunt.) It was great to be back.

I was reading stage directions for Tira Palmquist's play Two Degrees, which went on to be picked up for a full production the following year. It was great to be in the room with the writer, actors, director, and dramaturg as they brought this show to life.

A slightly different Smaug than the one at the Wellington airport, but I still chucked him under the chin for good luck. This one guards the Education floor in the Tramway building, my home away from home whenever I'm in Denver.

This is Denver these days, still a mix of old and new, but construction is everywhere.

I went to visit the art museum on my birthday (it was closed).

So instead I went to the Colorado History Museum.

I especially like this display, the time machine. You could move it to different places on a map of Colorado, then the screen would play short videos about events from different years that happened in that area. It was cool, and definitely appealed to the Doctor Who nerd in me.

Being back in Denver meant being back in proximity to my stage combat teacher. Last year's Rumble in the Rockies (an annual weekend stage combat intensive) was Three Musketeers inspired. I am an absolute sucker for any and all adaptations of this story.

There was a freak spring snow storm that dumped a ridiculous amount of snow in a very short period of time toward the end of April. I barely made it home, and essentially parked by ramming my car in the direction of a snow bank.

My housemates and I bonded by building a giant snow dragon, who guarded his treasure chest.

And I made this tiny snowman.

Of course the next day was bright and warm, and as you can see above my snowman was suffering on the mailbox I'd placed him on the night before. Never fear, he was happily rehomed.