Colorado: SPJ Conference

This past weekend I went to Colorado for a newspaper conference. The first day was kind of tragic because when we were about three hours away from Fort Collins 1-70 closed so we had to stop in a town called Vail for about four hours. It was really annoying. While we were there we went to a McDonalds and the girls and I are the trip were looking at the video we were making about the trip. This drunk guy thought we were video taping him and decided to come and sit down by us. He was so creepy! I decided to interview him for a bit, but since he was drunk the only question he really understood was, "What's your favorite color?" Right when we were going to leave he tried to sell us drugs. It was kind of funny.

We eventually did get to Fort Collins and the next day was the conference. It was a pretty good conference and our newspaper actually won second for best non-daily newspaper. The past three years we have gotten third. After the conference we just hung out at the hotel and then we went and ate.

On Sunday we were heading back to Cedar, but on the way we stopped in downtown Fort Collins to get some footage for our TV station. We also stopped at Molly Brown's house (from the Titanic) we weren't able to tour it though because tours were full until two, so we hung out in the giftshop. The last place we went to was Buffalo Bill's grave and then to a German restaurant, which had the nicest owners ever! It was funny.

Here are some pictures:

This is from two nights before the trip. I was making my portfolio and as you can tell I fell asleep in the newspapers I was clipping.



This is my best friend McKenzie and me before we got stuck in Vail.



These are some pictures of us in downtown Fort Collins.







This is the girls, Captain, and me outside Molly Brown's house. Captain is our advisor and he is kind of like my Dad away from home.



This is at Buffalo Bill's grave. Me at the view finder is because we thought it looked like a face.







The last few pictures are of Christian and me. We are doing really well right now, but we are trying to decide what we want to do about the summer. The first picture is us at a callbox. Christian thought it was cool how Colorado had callboxes and we teased him a lot about it. We were by one when we went to Buffalo Bill's grave so he and I gave a demonstration to the video camera of how to properly use one. The next ones are us at a restaurant.








There you go! Love you all and see you in two weeks!