This is me touching the really clean water

This is the bike ride on the rio grande trail

This is the balloon I got from the street artist

This is at the Maroon Belles

In June I went to Colorado with my dad, one place I went to in Colorado was Aspen. This was my first time going to Aspen in the summertime. In the winter you mostly go skiing, but in the summer there is so much to do. I first checked into the Limelight hotel, I always stay there when I am in Aspen. Then I went to a really good restaurant called Meat and Cheese, they have the best rotisserie chicken I’ve ever had. After we ate we walked around the area and went to a bookstore. It was rainy so I couldn’t do so much that day.

The next day we went on a 6 or 7 mile bike ride called the Rio Grande Trail. It’s not only for bike riding you can also jog or take a walk there. After we went bike riding we went to one of my favorite restaurants called Brunelleschi’s, you get to make your own pizza there. Soon we finished lunch and started walking back to our hotel because the hotel is in the town. On our way back there were street artists. One of them was a clown/face painter, she was better at being a clown than painting. She called herself Lizzy Dizzy and also made up names for everyone who stopped by her area. There was also a balloon artist who made really cool animals out of the balloons. And there was a girl who did hennas and tattoos on kids. The last street artist was a magician, he did really weird and cool tricks. That night we went to another magic show and he was a professional magician. He did a lot of card tricks and coin tricks too. When the magic show ended we walked around the Snowmass village and then went back to the Aspen town.

The day after we went on a hike to the Maroon Belles, everyone who goes there says it’s an excellent hike.  The water on the hike was so clear and fresh I couldn’t tell when my hand was going to touch the water. I learned that Aspen in the summertime is so much different than in winter time and you get to do so much more things. Also the views are really beautiful in the summer. The cool thing is that since there is no snow on the mountains the skiing mountains are covered in grass and they look so different.

I didn’t have a picture of me so I used this one

A few days ago I had an Alvin Ailey dance audition with Emma D. I haven’t done dance in about 3 years so I wasn’t very prepared. They said that I needed a tight bun and a good ballet outfit. At around 4:45 I went in. I was really nervous. A lot of the time the instructor/teacher would say moves that I didn’t know so I had to look at other people. A lot of us felt more pressure because the Junior Division manager kept on looking at us with a serious face, even though she was just looking to see our ability and what we could do. After the audition was over Emma and I both thought that we weren’t going to get in but a few days later they sent us an email that said we got in!