Saturday, Patt, Laura and I took the girls to see The Nutcracker ballet performed at the theater at NCSU. We arrived early, took our seats and carefully reviewed the story line, or rather Patt and Laura reviewed the story line with their partners, -- me I tried to figure it out from the game program. Julianna did not ask me many questions about the dances, scenes nor what stage of the story we were seeing. Now, Patt could respond, " Yes, that is the Sugar plume ... and "I think the Snow Queen is next", or "yes, that one is Clara" Julianna asked me "GrandDaddy, are you sleeping ?" "No" I replied, "just resting my eyes".
Now further down the row I could hear from time to time Lydia's running commentary. "Oh no !" she exclaimed loudly as the nutcracker is broken. and throughout the ballet, she kept a constant dialogue going, sometimes with questions, others with observations - always in an urgent tone. She was actively participating in attending the presentation of the Nutcracker. Immediately upon raising the house lights for intermission, Lydia asked, "can we watch it again?".
Just resting my eyes!
ReplyDeleteHow many times have we said that?
How many time have we heard that?
How many time have we actually rested our eyes during a show, etc?
Kelly