good times never seemed so good

This week just got so much better.  With just a little reminding the sea horses rocked out all of their parts.  The scouts did the best sinister soldiers scene of any of my casts ever, completed all of their scene changes in approximately five seconds, sang loudly, and didn't miss any entrances.  Though the leads are only adequate, and the majority of the gigantic younger aged kid group have been affectionately deemed "muffin heads" by Shirnest, we easily made it through the show in about an hour ten during the second session.  Mind you we did have to stop and had no seahorses, but I was still impressed with how smoothly things went.  Especially because we stopped letting the kids call "line".

This is not going to be our best show (that honor still probably rests with our first week up in BC- hoping all the kids in BC are so good and fun!).  But our scouts are amazing and our sea horses (p.s. I always thought that that was one word...) are smart and we are definitely going to have a show tomorrow.  It will probably get better for the Saturday show.  We might even have a good show by then.  But the important thing is that tomorrow, I am confident that we are going to have a show.

Now whether or not my voice is going to be up to performing that show remains to be seen.  This was HARD group to control and yesterday I was competing with a woodworking class that was double booked with us in the gym while I tried to teach a bunch of six year olds.  Ouch.  Well vocal rest until dress rehearsal tomorrow ought to help...I thought I wasn't gonna be able to perform in Kansas this summer, but that turned out to be my best performance all summer! (it helped that our leads were rock stars)

And also...THE RED SOX ARE STILL HANGIN' IN THERE!!!! It was touch and go for a while, but they pulled through!  I got a text from brother saying "I hope you're not watching the game" and I feared the worst, but I got home from work, caught the end of the game and BAM! MAGIC!! Time for game seven.

Yesterday I played slots for the first time in my life.  There are tons of casinos out here.  It was such a blast- we met up with the mom from my last homestay, had the casino brunch for lunch, and then spent the afternoon playing slots.  I lost $10, but I had a good time.  I should have stuck with that darn "Enchanted Unicorn" game...I was doing pretty well on that one for a while!  Today Shirnest and I started playing McDonald's Monopoly- we are one green piece away from $50,00.  So keep your eyes peeled for Pennsylvania Ave and send it our way if you find it!  One annoying thing though: they are putting tokens on less and less items these days.  I mean you can't even get game pieces on an egg mcmuffin!  Geez!  You gotta get the hash browns and the coffee for that.  Why back in the day, you'd get pieces on every single item in your breakfast value meal...what a rip off!