I came home late this afternoon from a 4 hour meeting, lunch with a friend at a great Korean restaurant, and a quick trip to Robert's for a particular color of cardstock. I went through the mail, cleaned off the table, and looked in the refrigerator to help me think about dinner. I was accosted by a foul smell coming from inside my frig which reminded me that I needed to throw some stuff away today to discover and eradicate the source of the smell. I put my laptop on the table, fired up my iTunes and blasted "Aida" while I bucked up and started the unpleasant job of tossing out leftovers. When I had gotten rid of some stuff including the bad, smelly tomato, I thought I had done a great job. But Amneris was belting about her "Strongest Suit" and I thought mine would be to get my vegetable drawers clean. So I yanked them out and gave them a good washing in my sink. When I put them back, I stepped back and admired my work. But they looked so sparkly clean that the other shelves paled in comparison. So "The Gods of Nubia" looked fondly on me while I removed and washed my shelves. Once again, I stepped back to admire my work and became slightly stressed out while contemplating the inside of my frig door. I decided it was "Written in the Stars" that I should complete the job, so I tackled those little shelf-box things that hang inside the door. I tossed out some salad dressings that nobody actually likes anymore, along with some marinades, because they just don't last forever. I washed out all the thingies and then organized what was left so that like items were in the same shelf-box and then I felt just GREAT! It was amazing how doing that commonplace chore made me feel so satisfied. And now my frig is so clean it's ready for company. Or maybe just ready for the people who live here and use it on a daily basis. And that's "Enchantment Passing Through".
Tuacahn 2007
This year we went down to Tuacahn to see “My Fair Lady”. We did the pre-show dinner because that’s become our tradition and watched the pre-show on the plaza. They had constructed some pretty awesome sets for this production. They made a large iron bridge that spanned the stage and was used for several things. It was the columns for the Covent Garden scenes below, it was the vantage point to see the Ascot race, it held up the Higgins house set, and was just really cool. They had horses do the race on the road in back of the stage and that was fun. Great show.
Mark and BYU
Mark received his acceptance letter from BYU the day after his 18th birthday. He has another semester of high school left, and he needs to keep his grades up for possible scholarship opportunities, but he can breathe a little easier knowing that his first big grown-up hurdle is over. He's going to the university of his choice!
Tuacahn 2006
This year we had an adventure at Tuacahn. We went down to see “South Pacific” and there were some wildfires going on in Southern Utah. We had a little bit of rain and there was some smoke but we didn’t think it was going to be too bad. But the fire was in a nearby canyon and the smoke increased steadily during the pre-show dinner and pre-show on the plaza and we were getting a little concerned when we started seeing ash fall on us. The show started but the smoke was getting worse and worse, and finally during the first act they called off the show because it was getting too dangerous and the actors couldn’t see very well. That’s the first time we’ve gotten a rain check there.
We had a busy rest of the summer and couldn’t go again until early September and Mark ended up not being able to go with us. We were all sad about that, but they gave us a gift card to use next year for the price of his ticket. We found out it’s very pleasant weather at the end of the run. Note to self. The show was great and we loved it!
Tuacahn 2005
Here’s a photo of us leaving the hotel in St. George to drive out to Tuacahn. We saw Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” which was really good and had wonderful sets and costumes. We also saw “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” which was super fun. It was set in St. George and started with the Narrator telling her one-room schoolhouse about the story of Joseph and the brothers were local farmers, the Ishmaelites were bikers, and Joseph gets sent to Egypt which is Las Vegas. It was totally hilarious. Potiphar was a casino owner, his wife was a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, and the Pharoah was Elvis, of course. It was so fun! When the brothers remember “Those Canaan Days”, they sat at an outdoor movie and watched a B&W of themselves. So clever. The whole show was great.
After enjoying two days there, we headed off to New Mexico to see where Scott is living when he’s not with us in Alpine.