Personal Narrative: Red Rocks Amphitheater

My ears were popping and I was starting to feel light headed as we climbed higher and higher toward Red Rocks Amphitheater. Red Rocks is right outside the edge of the hipster, pot smoking, mile high city Denver. I was going to see the dirty rocking, alternative, up in coming band Cage the Elephant. When you are first entering Red Rocks park everything drastically changes. The sky starts to turn a darker more vivid blue as everything else turns a tint of red form the dust. The mountains around me are a bright dusty red, and the closer to the amphitheater that I got the rock walls turned into a dark clean red that looked like it was tanned by the sun and the dust washed off by the cool whirling winds coming off the giant white peaked mountains. …show more content…
These rocks were huge! They cast shadows that were miles’ long and would black out the sun for hours. As I drove closer to the amphitheater across the red dessert of dust that would create huge clouds behind me, the boulder would grow taller and taller until I couldn’t see the top of them anymore. When I got inside the amphitheater the first thing I noticed was I was inside the giant rocks. They surrounded me like huge watchtowers always in my sight anywhere I went. When I gazed upon the seats they had stadium style seating cut out from the red rock itself. I got as close to the stage as I could. When I sat down the rock felt cool to the touch like it’s been in the shade all day long. Looking past the stadium you see the flickering lights of Denver, but not all of its lights; they stretched for miles until they blended in with the horizon and the twinkling stars behind