On our drive from the YMCA Snow Mountain resort to Denver, we stopped in Boulder to have supper on the sunny patio of a microbrewery with some of our Hong Kong friends.
The menu was interesting and we ordered a variety of sandwiches and sides.
The guys decided to share a brewery sampler. 
It offered small portions of the fifteen kinds of beer the microbrewery carried. 
I never drink beer but our friend Mike read the descriptions of the beer and one had banana and cloves in the ingredients so I figured it was worth a try and I liked it!
It was called Sweaty Betty. 
At a microbrewery you can watch them making beer and see the various machines that are used in the process. 
There was a great band entertaining called Funkiphino. They did lots of covers but also some of their own music. 
We had tickets to a Barry Manilow concert at the famous outdoor amphitheatre Red Rocks for eight o’clock in the evening. As we drove up to the site a beautiful rainbow seemed a harbinger of good luck. 
But as we parked the car the first raindrops started to fall and then the downpour started. Lightening forked across the sky and the wind began to pick up. 
After waiting in the car for quite some time for the rain to stop we finally braved the elements and went into the theatre. 
The guys decided to explore the venue before the concert despite the bad weather but I took refuge in the Red Rocks museum that had posters of all the music groups who have entertained at Red Rocks in the past including The Beatles. 
I had been to Red Rocks once before in 1972 when I was in college and was leading a service experience for teens. The museum had plaques for each year Red Rocks has been a concert venue and all the concerts for each year are listed.
I found the 1972 plaque. The Pete Seeger/Arlo Guthrie show I had attended on July 1, 1972 was there. The 1972 list had lots of music greats like Sonny and Cher, John Denver, The Carpenters, Neal Diamond and Joan Baez.
The concert was delayed till there would be a break in the weather and we waited inside and outside till 10 o’clock still hopeful the concert would go on.
At 10 o clock we made our way to our seats along with about half the initial crowd, other die hards like us who were determined to see a concert. They started to set up the stage, but the wind was vicious and lights swayed, drums blew away and lightning illuminated the sky. We huddled under blankets our friend and former ICS colleague Emily who lives in Denver had provided.
Finally at 10:30 they said unfortunately the concert would have to be cancelled. We were disappointed but also wet and cold and I at least was ready to head to our hotel.
This proved to be another adventure since the storm had caused a power outage in the area of the city where our hotel was located and they refused to check us in for safety reasons. Luckily the power went back on just as we were about to leave the hotel parking lot and we were able to head for bed after a long day.
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