We wanted to get our weekly chores like laundry and grocery shopping out of the way before the fun starts this week.
We took a short ride to downtown Gillette, its just a couple of miles away from the CamPlex, to learn the lay of the land, find out where things were and to make that beer and Pepsi run.
It seems like every road in Gillette is under construction.
One curious thing we saw was this ostrich. We looked around but couldn't figure out why anyone would want this here. There were no other bird statues or even any animals. It was just all by itself.
Bob dropped me off at the laundromat and went in search of a barber. He still doesn't have a haircut and let me tell you, he is getting pretty shaggy!
About an hour and half later Bob returned to get me just as I was finishing up and filling the laundry bags with clean clothes. I took notice right away that Bob's hair was still way too long in the back (there was almost enough to put it in a rubber band!) and he said that he found three barbershops and NONE of them were open. This is at one o'clock in the afternoon!
We headed back to the CamPlex to finish up some more chores and get dinner out of the way.
This evening I joined George and Nancy Reid, our Quail Run friends, at the Energy Building here on the CamPlex for a play put on by PAW. PAW stands for Performing Arts Workshop. We watched kids from age 7 through 17 put on Cole Porter's Anything Goes. Bob isn't really into musicals so he opted to stay home on this one.
This is a picture of some of the kids who performed for us. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some of these kids aren't household names in a few years.
This was our Friday. Let's see what Saturday brings.
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We were fortunate to have a local school teacher on our Devil's Tower HOP and she explained the artwork. Seems as though Gillette is trying to live down their "dirty coal town" image. That is being accomplished by various organizations adopting corners and keeping little gardens updated (I saw a lot of those). Plus they now have artists that donate sculptures and they are displayed all over town. Some are western appropriate, some...not so much. My guess is that the ostrich is one of the not so much. LOL!
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