It has been one busy week and weekend! After we got back
from DC, we had to get Eric’s first draft of his Chapters 1 and 2 of his thesis
done and I started technical rehearsals for the musical Carnival!. I have had
technical rehearsals every night this week from 6-9:30. To say I’m
exhausted is an understatement! We didn’t get much sleep while on
vacation. We were up late every night and never really had a chance to sleep
in. So I’m sleep deprived from vacation and add the 4 solid nights of not
being home after work…I don’t how some people do it! On top of that, I
developed another f’ing cold. Where did this one come from? The rainy day
at Mount Vernon? The plane? The night we rehearsed in the
rain? I really don’t know but right now I’m very stuffed up.
So the musical Carnival! It is a 1961 Broadway show about a
wide-eyed orphan who comes to the Grand Imperial Cirque de Paris! There are
puppeteers, magicians, jugglers and circus performers. I have to say some
of the script is funny but really it is an odd duck of a musical. The
music is fun. I downloaded the soundtrack so I could listen to it and make sure
I’m playing it right.
This weekend Mom, Mike and Danielle came up. Friday night Danielle
and I went to the Twins game. They lost…again! Saturday we went to Como Zoo and
Conservatory. As always it was busy there. Here are a few pictures:
After that and some shopping at IKEA we relax at home, waiting for
Eric to get home from school. I thought
the musical was in jeopardy when a major storm came through but We had dinner
at Buffalo Wild Wings and then I made them go to my musical. I think they
enjoyed it. After hearing the musical
for 5 times now, I can tell when the actors screw up. It cracks me up too when I catch them. Eric
took a few pictures for me:
Yesterday we went shopping to Costco and I made Monster Cookies
for them. It was a good busy week.
