All is going well, and my first two days here have been chockablock full of food, family and activity. (I'm really quite beyond exhausted.) I logged about 22 hours of awake time yesterday, and I'm still suffering for it. I anticipate a full night's sleep tonight, and hope that I'll be able to hang with the big kids a bit better tomorrow.
Anyway; last night! As it was, yesterday was a good day. The flight was uneventful (except for the 20 minutes spent on the tarmac waiting for the gate to become unoccupied); the lunch at Islands kicked ass; and cruising through Nordstrom is always a good thing.
Mom's "Theater Night" was last night though, and I was bribed into going to the show with a yummy dinner and delicious dessert at Off Vine. The show was one that we had seen before, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. From what I remembered from the first time, I did not thoroughly enjoy it; it was in Egypt; and there was a children's choir involved. Well, let me tell you that since the last time (about 10 years ago maybe), they've done a bit of modernizing to the visual effects of the show. I'll spell it out this way: Day-Glo cheerleaders; Jacob talking on a cell phone; a Western-themed Seven Brides for Seven Brothers dancing segment; Elvis as the king of Egypt; and a disco party finale complete with mirrored pants, short shorts, and a flashing neon backdrop that would make John Travolta proud. In a word: awful. But true to my paganist leanings, the part that offended me the most was not the farcical take on a Bible story, but the blasphemy of Elvis in an Egyptian skirt singing about goats.
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