Last weekend Sarah and I made two more trips to the Paramount Theatre downtown Denver.  One was for a rock show featuring Lifehouse.  Music fans have been Hanging by a Moment for seven years now, but it turns out the band does have a few other hits.  I thoroughly enjoyed the show, especially considering my affinity for popular rock music with undercover gospel lyrics.  As for Sarah, the theater was too cold, some of the rock too hard/loud, the stage lights too bright, and the show too late on a school night... but other than that she thought it was great!  (but I was grateful she was a trooper in subbing for a friend who was not feeling well enough to use his ticket.)

Thanks to our resident adventure expert (our bro-in-law Paul), we also attended the Banff Mountain Film Festival.  The festival is a yearly presentation of short films and documentaries on mountain adventure/sports.  Their "World Tour" is up to 30 countries.

While Paul says this year's edition did not live up to past presentations, it was still a pretty amazing collection of films.  Rock climbing, kayaking, skiing, base jumping, etc.  It brought back memories of my own backflip out of a plane at 13,000 feet back in the day.


A good excuse to break out these pics.




Makes you feel confident when your guide can't even keep his own helmet attached.  Sarah says don't get any more ideas, so anyway, the last film featured a world-class mountain biker named Ryan Leech.  You have to check out this video of a wild trail he helped build and then mastered.  This is some ridiculous mountain biking - nothing like you've ever seen before.

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