Auditions, callbacks, and a sunburn

This past week has been full of indoor and outdoor adventures! And by indoor, I mostly mean 'in car'. I had an audition in Littleton on Monday night for a production of RENT. Littleton is a town just southwest of Denver, about an hour north of Colorado Springs. Its downtown area is quite nice, and that's where the Town Hall Theatre is. I spent an hour in the car to get there, about 30 minutes waiting to audition, and then about 5 minutes actually auditioning, followed by another hour in the car home.

I also had an audition scheduled in Boulder on Wednesday afternoon, and then ended up getting a callback to the RENT audition in Littleton that was scheduled for Wednesday night. I left my apartment at 2pm ready for a long day of auditioning. I had no idea just how long it would be!

The drive up to Boulder was long (turned out to be 2 hours because of traffic), but very nice. I drove through Denver and got to see the Mile High Stadium where the Denver Broncos play.

Boulder is very beautiful as well, and I would have some pictures of it if I hadn't gotten stuck in ridiculous traffic and ended up 40 minutes late for my audition (which turned out fine since they had a lot of cancellations later that afternoon) which left me harried and worried about making it back down to Littleton in time for the RENT callbacks.

I needn't have worried. I arrived in plenty of time for the callbacks, and then proceeded to wait. And wait. And wait and wait and wait. The callbacks ran from 6pm to 10:30pm, and I had already been running about all day, (not to mention coughing my brains out as my body tries to force out the end of this stupid cold) and was exhausted by the time we were released. Don't get me wrong, I was happy to be kept the whole time instead of released since that's usually a good sign in the long run, but I knew I had to be at work the next morning at 4:15am, and I still had the long drive back to the Springs.

It all worked out for the best, though, as today turned out to be a gorgeous day, and I didn't mind being up so early since it meant I would be done at 12;45pm and would have the day to relax. Since it was so sunny and warm, I decided to explore outside a bit. Sick to death of my car for the time being, I walked back behind my apartment complex and found a path that lead to the park that is just down the hill from my complex. It's called Bear Creek park and it functions widely as a dog park/trail head that winds around for quite a few acres in the foothills. Here are some views from the highest park of the trail in the park. Beautiful!

A house being built next to the park. A HUGE house.

Makes me want to have a dog just to let it run around freely in this beautiful park!

Like the name says, there is a creek that runs through the park. It is a crystal clear, icy cold stream that falls over itself in lovely little waterfalls. Dogs and people alike enjoy playing in its rushing waters. It also makes a very soothing sound as it trickles past boulders and over fallen trees. This I discovered when I lay down on a boulder next to it in the warm sun, and ended up falling asleep for about 20 minutes. Just a powernap, a well deserved one after working 8 hours on 2 hours of sleep, but I still paid for it with a lovely sunburn, as you can see.

Roasted flesh aside, I ended the day with a trip to the movies with Mark and Sarafia; two of my friends from work. We saw Ironman 2, and I must say RD Jr is a bad ass. He just is. Can't be denied. :) Territory Days in Old Colorado City this weekend! It's a huge festival full of food, crafts, live music and more. I have to work, but will definitely be visiting it when I'm not slaving away at the 'Bucks. Have a great memorial day, all!

More to come!