perldiver

Carrots: 5
Sticks: 0

Today's total was small because the only real item on the list for today was "spend it with avivasedai  celebrating her birthday!"

We started off with breakfast at Alice's Teacup; much tasty food was eaten, including a yummy omlette and a nutella-and-almonds crepe that was SO GOOD!!!! Ohhhhhh.  Yum.  avivasedai had raspberry with peanut butter, which she seemed to enjoy--at least, I noticed that both of us put the last bite in our mouths, looked blissful, then looked guilty and said "oops, I forgot to offer you some".  :>

From there we poked around a bit, then went over to see "In The Heights".  WOW.  That was an incredible show.  Quite possibly the best I've ever seen.  And we had what I think were the best seats in the house--row E (so, 5 rows from the stage, which put us just slightly above stage level), and dead center.  It **rocked**.

We had picked up an extra couple of scones from Alice's, and we had those for lunch during the intermission.  After the show, we wandered
over to Ruth Cris's Steakhouse for dinner (it was 5pm by then), where we had a **delicious** meal (steak and garlic mashed for me, multiple sides for avivasedai).  Then on to the Hirschfeld theatre, where we saw "Hair".  Very well-costumed, well-lit show, many great songs.  Really got across the feel of the 60s.  It was a fine show--had I seen it on its own my review would probably be higher, but I'm afraid it didn't really stack up against its competition which had (a) hordes of beautiful dancers doing red-hot Latin dance numbers (b) fantastic songs sung with perfect clarity so you could hear every word, where the lyrics resonated with pain and fear and joy and pride and many of the issues were things that the audience (or, at least me personally--I won't speak for anyone else) could personally resonate with from our own experience.


So, great day.  And now, I'm headed for bed.  Tired Dave.