This message is from: "Gail Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all,
Just to let you all know that my husband Jim (Halverson) and I will be there. Maybe we will see you there. So far, I think we will be staying until the 25th...have not got departure arrangements made yet. We arrive on the Amtrak train in downtown Denver about 7:15 PM on the 20th. The beauty of Amtrak is that one arrives downtown. We are taking the California Zephr.....with a room booked. We will stay in the Marriot City Center hotel (a block from the station) and take buses and cabs to the stock show. (A friend of mine who lives in Denver tells me the car rental prices at that time of year are sky high because of the demand for them by skiers and the bus schedules look pretty good to me anyway.) We have tickets to the dancing horses for Thursday the 22nd, and for the Draft horse show the next night. We may go to the rodeo on ensuing nights....who knows. If you want to stay at the Marriott City Center the cheapest reservations are available thru a stock show special. Go to the "plan your trip" section of the national Western Stock Show site.....and go into the part where it shows Marriott as hotel sponsor of the show. Attempt to book a reservation online. It probably will not work....but somewhere in there, there is a code that you can use when making the reservation over the phone. I think it was "stch". The room was $89. Other places they seem to be double that. It may be that this is a lousy room....that they reserve for these specials...but it is better than I could find thru all the other sites...hotels.com and the Marriott's own online site. Apparently the Angus folks are staying there too.......with whom I would expect Fjord people to fit right in. If you want to stay away from the center of the city the hotels are cheaper. I chose this because the transport to the show seemed easier. Get your evening tickets soon....the best ones were already gone when I reserved a week ago. Hope to see you there. If you want to know which section we are sitting in for the show...e-mail me privately and I will dig out my reservation. Gail http://www.theresgottobeapony.org/pony.htm The dates for the evening performances are January 21st and 22nd, 2004. We will be moving the horses into the National Western Events Center the evening of Jan. 20th..com
