March Fourth

After pulling an all nighter two nights ago and passing out at 3am last night, I managed to be up and ready to hit the road by 9am this morning. Lucky for me, there was a really nice bathroom to take a warm shower in the house that we stayed at.  I wish I would have thought to take pictures of the house while I stayed there because it was so interesting.  It was like 3 stories, amazing architecture, and the best feature was that the bathroom has one of those really vintage styled bathtubs.

So anyways, after everyone got ready we headed over to the gallery to check out what was going on.  On the drive over there I attempted to capture the little things things about Denver that fascinated me.

The gallery wasn’t open yet when we pulled up.  So we went around the corner and chilled a bit, then navigated around the neighborhood and enjoyed some street art that Ron English had put up.

As I snap the photo of Ron English’s piece, we hear a “hey!” from behind us.  We turn around and it was Jet Set Graffiti and Ron English in a car.  Pretty funny.

Got kinda hot outside.  Time to go chill in the gallery.

In walks these group of four ladies to the gallery.  Following them was a BET film crew.

Then, the entire gallery was blessed with the sounds of them singing gospel in front of one of the pieces.  Everyone was sheading tears.  It was really hard not to.  I just kept invisioining what they could have went through throughout their lifetime.  After years of singing in pain, I hope now they are singing for the joy and happiness in how much society has progressed.

Carlos and Armando were able to talk to the ladies and give them each a hug.

It got a little intense there for a moment, so we went around the side of the building and everyone started to release some tension by showing off their soccer skills.  Of course, Alf Alpha stole the show.

We decided to head back to the Fashion Denver headquaters to eat at that really delicious sandwhich shop that we ate at the day before. After eating lunch Alf Alpha and I decided to hurry up and make our way to downtown to rent some bikes for free to ride around town before watching Barak Obama accept the Democratic Presidential nomination.  

After biking around for about an hour, Alf Alpha and I had to hurried back over to the stadium to meet up with the Date Farmers to pick up our passes to get in the stadium.  We waited in line for only about..hmm..3 hours.  That is when, unfortunately, my camera died.  There is something to be said about the most memerable moments in your life not being documented.  The only place I guess where those memories can live is in my head, and that’s fine with me.  The one picture I did take when I got back to the house after the speech was this one.  You can see where we sat.  We were wwaayyy up in the nose-bleed seats.  But. it was all good.  Big thank you for hooking it up you guys, muchas gracias.

Back at the pad we chilled with the Date Farmers and Maya Hayuk.  To celebrate our experience and Barack’s excellent acceptance speech we went out and got a couple bottles of fine wine and apetizers from a nice bar down the street.  Cheers to today, tomorrow, and change!  Nite.

DAY 3 – DENVER, CO

Alf Alpha and I woke up to give the Date Farmers and Maya Hayuk a hug goodbye as they left to the airport.  We still had Brandi’s G-ride so we drove into town, ate some good breakfast, did some sight seeing and headed back to the Fashion Denver Headquaters.  We thanked Brandi for her hospitality and shared with her how much we grew to love the city of Denver within the 3 days of visiting.  It’s truly an awesome city, very progressive and the locals are the chillest, coolest peeps that you will ever encounter. Brandi and friends gave us a ride to our bus stop….

We took a group photo, gave group hugs and waved goodbye…

We’re going going back back to Cali Cali….