Monday 17th October, 2005
Today has been designated a day for shopping with the primary aims of getting the boys some school shoes, trainers and the odd shirt at US prices.
Cherry Creek Mall provided the venue but only a couple of shops visited. Foleys was popular.
I visited John Fielders shop in the Mall; never ceases to amaze me how these US photographers make sales of their photographic prints. Huge prints, framed up and costing thousands of dollars.
He had a vast array of books also from his company Westcliffe Publishing including his own Colorado retakes ... (together with a new volume II) and books of other states by other photographers, including Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming. These were not nearly as nice as the Colorado one. Sadly he’s out of town at the moment, so I’ll not be meeting up with him.
A late lunch; steak sandwiches and then another quick shop at Orvis where Anne topped up her wardrobe with sale items and then back, late in the afternoon.
All the adults are out for a meal tonight so there was a general showering and changing scramble and we were underway at about 6.30.
Great nosh at the Cherry Creek Grill. A long wait for a table but a good chance to catch up further with everyone. Danny it transpires had managed two or three shoulder dislocations today on nothing more dramatic than jumping out of a truck and digging a hole … there’s old age for you!
When we did get our seats, we were really well looked after by a delightful waitress called Ebony who advised us, served us and entertained us all evening.
Back about 10; a couple of games of ping pong with the boys … for the record I beat Ben on a tie-breaker and somehow Nick managed to beat me twice; I reckon it’s the altitude.
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