DOUBLE UP WITH LAUGHTER

 
 
Nicole and Ingrid are in Colorado Springs, Colorado's second largest city.  This place's full of the military.  This is the place the president will be taken too in case there should be a nuclear attack.  You can't imagine a safer place.

We didn't travel a lot last week, hardly 120 kilometers, from Denver upto Colorado.  We are blaming the locals... we were invited everywhere !

There was this French woman, named Angelique, living in Parker.  She was over the moon when she met us :finally some people with whom she could speak French.  She insisted that we should spent the night at her place, for she had prepared, together with her female friends, a special 'activity' that night.   And special it was ! 12 dauntless ladies, in their sixties, visiting eachother and babbling !  At 21.00 hours, the bell rang.  Five wild Chippendales jumped into the livingroom ! And you know what ?  The most wild were, yes, the ladies !!!   Some of them were pulling (with their teeth) the men's underwear down.....it set us off laughing like we never did before on our entire trip.

What a major contrast to our stay with Bill and Nancy, just before entering Colorado Springs a few days later.  They were very conservative. Their house was more of a convent.  We had to take our shoes off, they asked us if we had evening dresses (we had to dress for dinner !).   Are you joking ? We are travelling around the world with only one pair of shorts and one pair of slacks.

The following day we had to go to church with them.  It was a great experience.  The priest had a surprise for us.   He invited us to come up to the pulpit and asked us to tell about our trip.  For 30 minutes he allowed us to speak !!! God must love you, he said.  Because.... we were still alive after 4 years.  Later they made a collection, 350 dollars and it was given to us by the parishioners.  We were very touched by this gesture.  So, we are rich now ! An extra 350 dollars........ how many kilometers to the next church ?! (joking)