Home again home again

Well I am back in Indiana after my vacation in Denver. On Tuesday before my flight out, Lucy, Josh and I went to downtown Denver to visit Hammond's Candies and The Molly Brown House Museum. Hammond's Candies in a factory that was started in 1920 which still uses most of the original machines to make the candy. They specialize in "old fashioned" hard candy which means they make ribbon candy, lollipops, and candy canes by hand as well at art candy (which is candy with a stylized picture in the center. It was amazing to see the people haul a 60 lb block of candy and then see them make lollipops out of it. I got some ribbon candy for my mom as well as some clove sticks and a lime "barber pole" (a pretty thick candy stick) while I was there. After the candy factory, we went to the Molly Brown house which Molly Brown (the unsinkable one!) owned in around 1910-1920. There was a lot of restoration that was done on the house and they were able to restore the house and belongs pretty close to the original. Some pictures were taken of the house when the Browns were having a large party (of 800 people) so those pictures were used in the restoration process. Mostly it made me want to watch Thoroughly Modern Millie because there was a short exhibit on life in Denver during the 1920s. After a trip to the spice shop and lunch, it was to the airport and back to Indiana. I flew to Denver and back on Frontier which has a free channel called Wild Blue Yonder. As a promotion, the was a little film festival of independent shorts. I had seen a little bit of one of the three shorts on the way to Denver and so on the way back I was able to catch all three. I highly recommend seeing the three shorts which you can by clicking here . All three are good, but I think my favorite is "My Name is Yu Ming" (the other two were "The Leeward Tide" and "The Climatic Death of Dark Ninja). And you can vote for your favorite as well. So I had a really nice vacation and an excellent time with Lucy and Josh.

King the Hill Quote:
"If I find out this was you and not some laundry accident, I'm going to be really mad"-Luanne Platter