What a strange weekend! Thursday some friends came from NY to visit. I picked them up at the airport late at night and they stayed over. Friday I drove them up to Boulder and we walked all over town visiting old haunts, weeping nostalgia. That evening Ben and Nate came up to meet me and we played pinball and arcade games in Lyons.

Saturday was another busy busy day. We saw a matinee performance of Le Corsaire with Miranda and Nate. I’m not very familiar with this ballet, except for the famous pas de deux. I thought it was a fun show, if a bit too traditional. My favorite part were the three Odalisques, who each had a bright petit allegro. Gil Boggs is the new director of the Colorado Ballet and he is definitely putting more money in their sets and costumes than ever before. It was gorgeous!

We had dinner after the show at Sam’s No. 3 downtown. Then we went home to Lakewood to change clothes and feed the pets. Later that evening with Brian in tow we went the Asylum haunted house. Miranda and I screamed a LOT, and I don’t even think we saw much of it because we had our eyes covered and head dug into our husbands’ coats. Brian was giddy the whole time, practically skipping at parts. They had some really good effects, like a guy in an electrocution chair, severed heads hanging from the ceiling that you have to duck under, and a hall of hanging body bags, one of which had a moving person inside. At one point we heard a chain saw and Ben took off right, smack into a wall behind a curtain. He kept going and we lost part of our group. We were all screaming for each other and Brian got escorted into a separate room where we saw him behind a window frantically bumping around in some strange laboratory. In the end a clown told us to enter a hallway which you had to squish through. It was weird, like the whole was filled with two giant balloons and you had to squeeze them. You had to make a space with your hands to part the balloons as you walked and they sucked close before and behind you. You can’t see a thing. Very weird. Very scary.

Today I am blissfully doing some laundry, baking, and sewing. Later tonight some friends are coming over to make cheddar biscuits, drink cider, and play games. Happy October!