Notes - today +the Stanley /

         Late Sunday morning. You are sitting in the Polaris Mall on the fake leather couch where you can see the kids playing at the area built to accommodate. Last night you and Carol took the family to Logan’s Roadhouse off I-270 near Dublin/Powell for Kim’s thirty-fifth birthday yesterday. Kim is on her way to Rocky Mountain National Park for a conference/work week in the mountains and called from Dallas, her first stop. She has a layover and then on to Denver where she is staying overnight at the Stanley Hotel. Owen was challenged to decide lunch, and he said “Potbelly’s” and received a unanimous family ‘yes’. Carol and Paul are walking the boys around selections of the mall and you have moved to near the Apple Store to be closer to the car. – Amorella

** **

The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room neo-Georgian hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley offers panoramic views of the Rockies. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, catering to the rich and famous, including the RMS Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a variety of Hollywood personalities. The hotel and its surrounding lands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Stanley Hotel also hosted the horror novelist Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining. Parts of the television mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, whereas Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation The Shining was filmed in sets built at Elstree Studios England (some of the exteriors showed the Timberline Lodge in Oregon, and others showed a set based on a truncated version of that hotel).

The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubrick's feature film on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia

The Stanley Hotel (photo from hotel site)

** **

         Mid-afternoon. After lunch everyone went home and had a nap. You are sitting in the lounger/rocking chair in Owen and Brennan’s room; Owen is playing with his transformer rescue bots and you are keeping him company while Carol is asleep in your room and Paul and Brennan are asleep on the couch in the living room. – Amorella

         1540 hours. I would like to complete Brothers - 4 today. It was fun looking up about the hotel. I can imagine Steven King sitting in a hotel room working up the storyline for The Shining. It was a great scary ghost story for a film and mini-series.

         People are up. Later, dude. Post. - Amorella

         1839 hours. Kim had made lasagna for supper; it was very good. I finished Brothers 4 so I’m feeling good, maybe I’ll work on Grandma’s 4 later tonight. Right now I’m sitting with Owen and Brennan and we are watching “Rescue Bots”.

          Evening. Post. - Amorella