As I mentioned a few days ago, my mom and her friend were supposed to go to the ballet, in Seattle, last week, but her friend double-booked herself so she wasn't able to go. She gave my mom her ticket and my mom asked me if I'd like to go with her.
Sure! Why not? The only ballet I've ever been to is The Nutcracker so I thought it would be fun to see something else. We had no idea what the name of the ballet was other than "Director's Choice". Soon after we arrived, we got the scoop.
But first, we went to dinner at a cozy little Thai restaurant in lower Queen Anne {Seattle neighborhood for those that aren't local}. It was a horribly windy and rainy day and evening, but we found street parking pretty close to the theater and the restaurant was right across the street from where we parked so we thought we'd try it out.
Because my mom has Celiac disease, that means that she can't have anything with wheat. This restaurant was very accommodating and the waitress was able to direct us to a portion of the menu that had wheat-free entrees. We got sweet basil chicken {or something like that}. It was delicious!!
After we ate, we walked to the theater {Pacific Northwest Ballet / PNB} while trying to guard ourselves from the pounding rain and keep our umbrellas from blowing inside out...or slipping on the thousands of
HUGE maple leaves that were scattered all over the ground. We made it, although there were some crazy drivers, especially at night, in the rain, that we thought were not going to stop for us, therefore running us over. Quite the adventure. Haha!!
Once inside, we climbed the stairs to the top level. We hung out in the lobby for a little bit, cooling off {since walking around in the cold then entering a warm building makes you roast to death when you're bundled up...we were also told that the dancers like it hot because it helps loosen up their muscles...it was definitely HOT in there! LOL}
I asked one of the ushers to take our picture and it was like he'd never held a camera before. SO the picture that he took of us together is not the best. Oh well. What're ya gonna do?
So we found out that "Director's Choice" was a combination of four different ballets: Petite Mort, Mopey, The Seasons and West Side Story Suite.
A quote from the Chairman:
"This mixed-repertory program offers four wonderful ballets so divergent in style that you won't believe you are watching the same dancers perform throughout."I had to be very selective in my picture taking because I did not have much room left on my memory card. Also, my camera does not like the dark, movement or zooming. It was also pointless to use my flash since we were so far away. Despite my camera, I think I was able to get some good photos.
Petite Mort:This one was pretty short compared to the others. Very pretty!
Mopey:My mom and I were laughing because the music was by "The Cramps".
Really? They {the band?} couldn't find another name? The PNB couldn't find some other music to use? It was just commical.
This was more of a modern piece. Very out of the box and different. It was just this guy for the whole piece. He did great, but it wasn't our favorite.
The Seasons:This one was probably my favorite, but it was really long and I started to get heavy eyes after awhile.
I loved all the costumes though. They were gorgeous and it was just a really pretty piece.
And can I just say that the audience was very clap happy?
Seriously, every time someone new entered or left the stage, as well as just other random times, there was clapping.
And then after each piece where everyone came out and bowed, etc...like 5+ minutes of clapping.
I
totally and completely understand wanting to give recognition, but seriously, it was crazy! I could feel my hands starting to vibrate.
There were also some
VERY ENTHUSIASTIC clappers in front of us. They made me laugh. I guess maybe we're just not refined enough for "the arts". Haha!!
West Side Story Suite:My mom has seen West Side Story in many different forms / remakes. I've never seen it at all. She said this was a VERY condensed version of it. It was awesome though and because of the singing, and more upbeatness {yes, it's a word...I said so... ;0P} of it, it woke me up a bit. It was really amazing and lots of fun!
If you ever get a chance to see this, it's wonderful and a great experience!!
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So sometime later in the week, we were finally able to go, but it was after Kyle got home from work so then it was almost dark when we got there and turned completely dark soon after we chose our pumpkins.
I really wanted to go during the day so I could get some fun pictures, but it just didn't work out that way this year.
But that's ok. I still got a wagon full of pumpkins and now they line my porch steps. ;0)
If we were to go through the corn maze, this is what it would've been like this year:
That thing across the middle is a bridge, then the water and trees and wind. Pretty cool how they are able to carve out a picture like this from corn.
And mine:
A few days before Halloween, I went to PetSmart and was able to score some costumes for Chewy and Milo {oh how they love me!!}.
And Chewy's devil costume was $3.97!! Woohoo!!
We tried to get them together, but this is about as good as it got! LOL
For Halloween this year, we decided to hand out glow stick necklaces instead of candy. They were a HUGE hit!! I pre-assembled 100 and once the kids started coming, we could not make them fast enough! We had over 300 kids {and parents...and a frickin married couple with NO kids} come through! It was madness, but tons of fun! We sit out in our driveway because it's better to be outside all bundled up than answering the door 300 times while trying to keep Chewy from becoming BFF with everyone!
I'm sitting up there in the driveway putting together light stick necklaces.
Our house last year. There's actually three songs that play but this is just the one. We had this again this year, minus the 2 straight sticks on the sides of the fence.
Six Word Saturday:
I was in 6th grade and my mom told me not to do anything funky with my hair for picture day. Obviously I didn't listen. Although, when I did my hair, I thought it looked great!
I'm tired of all of this wet stuff that's been coming out of the sky recently.
On one of the recent rainy days, it was raining in the front of the house and sunny on the back side of the house. I could tell that there was probably a rainbow out there, so I grabbed my camera and took a look and voila...there was!! I love rainbows and they make me smile any time I can see one.
Yesterday I had an interview for a job, and if I really wanted a job, it would probably be a good one. They want to make a decision by today so, we'll see.
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