Getting Together With Some Of The Old DU Gang

Speaking of DU (in my previous blog post), I got together yesterday evening at Las Delicias with some of my old University of Denver Bookstore colleagues and their spouses, as well as with my friend Mark, who works at DU's Anderson Academic Commons (the library) and his parents. It was a very pleasant evening, and fun to catch up with what everyone has been doing and what trips they are planning in the future. In the photograph on the left, starting on the front left side, is Renee, the wife of Bill, the former DU Bookstore Operations Coordinator. Bill and Renee are planning a trip to Monterey, California and from there up to Vancouver, British Columbia. Sitting next to Renee is Linda, wife of Wally, the former DU Bookstore Operations Manager. They are planning a trip to San Francisco to visit their kids, and from there are taking the train up to Seattle to attend a wedding. Sitting next to Linda is Mark, and standing behind him is his mother, Kay. Sitting in the back on the right is Mark's father Dale. The three of them, along with Mark's brother Mike, just returned from a vacation in Maui. Sitting next to Dale is Bill, then Wally, and finally my sister Susan, who has no connection to DU whatsoever. Probably for the best.

Darrel, the former Accounts Payable Manager of the DU Bookstore, along with his wife Linda, also dined with us, but due to a senior moment, I forgot about taking a photograph of the group until after they had left. Darrel and Linda just got back from a trip to San Clemente, which they say was a bit on the nippy side, but still had a fun trip. And fortunately, in keeping with the travel theme, I have a photograph of Darrel and Linda, seen on the right, that I took back in June 2014 at the Travel and Adventure Show, where none other than Rick Steves, my favorite travel guru, was giving a series of talks about traveling in Europe. That show, as I recall, was held at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, and the stage was set up beneath some windows, making getting a decent photograph of Rick with Darrel and Linda in the foreground pretty hard. But no problem - I found a nice spot to take their photo directly under a giant poster of Rick, which was almost as good as the real thing. It was a fun evening, and the food at Las Delicias in Glendale, Colorado was, in point of fact, delicious. Great to see all you guys again!