Saturday, June 25, 2016

Day 14 - Denver to Loveland Colorado

First, a bit of choir expectations.  We treat hotels just like we do host homes. In the morning rooms are expected to be clean and beds made.  The Wesley Bell Ringers will be back again this way some day, and we want to leave a positive impression everywhere we go.  One pic of a hotel room as we were leaving is included below.

Another choir tradition took place this morning as Katie took all the Seniors and Super Seniors out to brunch since we didn't need as early a start.  Day 13 was our longest travel day of the trip, day 14 the shortest.

Once underway we stopped in the morning for a tour of the Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory.  We got a really interesting private tour of the facility, and were released into the gift shop.  The prices were more like an outlet store, so of course we all bought enough tea to last through the next decade.

We then traveled on and stopped for some free time at Boyd Lake State Park.  This was a nice lake and park.  Today was the annual tour picnic.  A selected group of kids go with Ed to shop for all the fixings.  Lunch was great.  The highlight of the afternoon was meeting Joe, a 60's throw back who joined us for a fun game of volleyball.  It was a really nice and relaxing afternoon.

We then made our way to First Methodist in Loveland, which is Steve and Bev Goodier's church.  Steve and Bev remembered many choir members from when they were much younger and it was great to catch up with them.   The choir got ready in the children's hall.

The choir played a great concert to our largest crowd of the trip.  They got another standing ovation after the star spangled banner, as well as at the end of the show.  Jenn, Marco and Ryan all had family and friends at the concert. Former ringer and Katie's friend Annie Wallin also made it to the concert.

Janette worked with Steve at CUMC and then at the District Office and Eric and Janette, along with Alicia and Alexis stayed at their house.  Steve and Bev have been at Loveland for a year and are very happy to be back in a church.  Bev's health issues have been resolved and she is feeling great.

Steve gave a great talk and prayer to send us on our way on Day 15.

In some museums, photos aren't allowed. Fortunately that isn't the case today:














































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