Tourists are here

The Aspen old-timers showed the tourists around a bit yesterday and today.  Yesterday we just spent some time hanging around the music school campus then town center for a while then had supper outside while listening to Umberto Fuentes sing some songs.  We wound down the day by watching an extremely mediocre movie called Leap Year.

Today Matt and Chris went for a high-altitude run and apparently did well.  Then Matthew walked over to the bakery to get some starch and sugar for all of us to eat for breakfast.

Maya stayed home with Prema to practice while the rest of us went by bus to Maroon Bells.  Appachen and I took the slow walk while the remainder of the group took a short loop hike.  It was quite a nice day up Maroon Canyon.  We ran into Miriam and Bruce, a couple of nice people from Florida whom I had met a few evenings ago at a concert.

Later we had lunch at Aspen Highlands and met a nice family from Denver.  The mom was from Thailand and is an allergist, the dad is a pulmonologist.  They had two young children in tow.

We are now at the condo saving up our energy for dinner.  Maya continues to practice with a young lady named Stephanie. She is a student of Mr. Kantor's who is in Aspen on a fellowship.  He obligation to the fellowship is to help other students practice.

I am going on my walkabout to the usual: PO, Clark's, library.