Fantastic day

The girls and I went to Munchapalooza at PTE. It was a great show. I can't remember the last time I saw live anything ('cept for school concernts, which have their own kind of charm). The energy is so different than looking at a screen.

At times I was enraptured watching Ashlin rather than the play. She gets so into these kind of things - bouncing her head up and down, clapping not at all in time to the music, laughter and wanting to point everything special out to me (whispering in my ear, just like I asked her to do). After than we wandered down to the 1st floor and watched the fountain. Then proceeded to the warm underground parking where we had left all manner of coats and mitts behind. (Menno would be displeased, but it was worth the extra loot.)

In college (the first time through) I was part of music and drama groups every year and toured 1-3 weeks in March or May. There is nothing like being jammed in a bus with up to 30 people day after day, working, playing, eating, developing the jokes and stories that will never be understood outside the immediate context. A fatigue and an energy that combines into something spectacular rather than cancelling each other out. I'd love to do that again, anything really, where I can be creative in a group. Now that I've left some of the neurosis of my late teens and early twenties behind I think I could enjoy such an experience in a way I was never able to before. (Course, now that I'm married there could also be no group/tour romances which add a certain spice. But I digress.) Is it possible that I'll get more chances to do something that fun again? I hope so.