There's GOLD in them Colorado hills!

Just got back from the Rocky Mountain Senior Games Basketball Tournament in Greeley Colorado with the Celadrin Tigerettes.  We all flew into Denver on Thursday Sept. 9th.  We stayed at the Marriott Suites and each of us had a room to ourselves with large TV in the room but with shared kitchen and bathrooms between three of us.  We had a great dinner at the Keg and since Loretta is celebrating a birthday (either 71 or 73 depending on who you ask), we shared an amazing chocolate dessert after.

Before we could leave Denver in the morning, we appeared on the DayBreak show for KWGN- TV.  You can catch the Celadrin Tigerettes news clip

The Tournament in Greeley was held in a beautiful city owned community center.  We played four games in two days and won them all though it was some of the toughest competition.  New Mexico Blue Jays won the bronze, Rocky Mountain High Tops from Colorado won Silver and by winning the Gold, we brought our 12 year record to 180 wins, 5 losses.  I have only been with the team for 7 years but this weekend I contributed well averaging 15 points a game.  We stayed at the Fairfield Inn in Greeley, and celebrated Loretta's birthday again at the Red Lobster restaurant.  More chocolate!  But after the tournament finished, before showering, I drove the 10 passenger van back to Denver.  I love my Magellan GPS which I bought at Costco.  It makes traveling in strange cities enjoyable, knowing you can never get lost or be late for anything.

Celebrating the birthday girl for the third time at another posh restaurant in downtown Denver, we laughed until chocolate came out of our noses.  Even though we had showered, we still wore our warm up jackets and medals and people continually asked us about the games.  Some had even seen us on TV the day before.

We were up at 4:30 AM this morning to get us all to our 8 AM flights and return the Van on time.  I flew with Air Canada though United covered the flight between Denver and Vancouver.  What's up with that?  Neither that flight, nor the one over to Nanaimo were filled so I had a seat to myself both ways.  So good to get home to my reupholstering and renovating projects.