Sorry everyone for the hiatus. I have been crazy busy with school. Good news though, I have taken my first test in each of my classes and got A's on all of them! I was really nervous about my Calculus test and my Psych test but I aced them anyway. Yay for me!
Last Wednesday was Phantom of the Opera day! I went to class in the morning because I had an English test and then we left for NY around 9:30. Once we got there, we walked to Grand Central Terminal to eat lunch. I was really excited because I thought it would be like Reading Terminal Market in Philly only bigger. It wasn't, incidentally, and I was disappointed. I found a turkey bone in my chili and my pizza was soggy and greasy. (I though NY pizza was supposed to be great!!... oh well, nothing can compare to Jersey shore pizza. I have 2 words for you... Mack and Mancos) Anyway, when we were done, we set off for the most important stop of the day... THE WORLD OF
DISNEY STORE!!! We stopped and the American Girl Store and St. Patrick's Cathedral on the way.
Once we got there, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven! I was dancing around and singing like a fool to every song they had playing. I didn't even care!!
DH and I with our AWESOME Hannah Montana Headsets on!
Everyone there must have been either thoroughly entertained or thoroughly annoyed. The store has three floors of Disney goodness and took us a while to soak everything in.
View from the third floor.
When we were done, we headed towards the car. We stopped at Jamba Juice and got smoothies (mine was gross but DH's was awesome! It was the chocolate peanut butter one.) Our plan was to eat at Chipotle for dinner and... what do you know!.. it was right next store to Jamba Juice. We had a fabulous dinner there (as always... why don't they build on around here?! We have to drive over and hour just to get to one.) and then walked back to the car to change.
When we got to the theater, we were about 45 minutes early so we just hung out in the lobby area and waited for them to open the doors.
My mom was curious to see how full the theater would be so I wen over to ask the woman in the ticket booth. The convo. went a little something like this:
Me: Hi, I was just wondering how full the theater will be tonight.
Ticket Lady (TL): Why do you want to know?
Me: Ummm, my mom was just curious I guess.
TL: Oh, because the theater isn't full and I might be able to give you better seats. Where are you sitting?
(side note: apparently this is common for people to ask for upgrades on their tickets. We didn't need them because I bought AWESOME seats for us.)
Me: Oh no, we are sitting in row J in the Orchestra.
TL: I can't give you any seats better than that.
Me: Well, I wasn't really looking for better seats. I just wanted to know how full the theater would be.
TL: It's a quiet night.
It was literally one of the most awkward conversations I have ever had in my life! So, finally, they opened the doors and we went into the theater. When I tell you we had the best seats... I mean we had the BEST seats. We were in the orchestra, about 9 rows back (just close enough to see the actors up close and far enough away to see the whole stage at once without having to constantly crane our necks.), right in the MIDDLE!!! It was incredible.
The first half of the show was great (as you expect Phantom to be). During intermission, I was singing parts of the show, unconsciously, and the person behind me said "wow, you're better than the people up there! We were very impressed!" Then, he said "I'm a broadway producer and I am casting for a new Disney show. We are going to be doing Snow White and I would like to personally invite you to come audition for us!" OMG!! .......Ok, ok you got me! The second part was a lie but that would have been cool, huh? I'm sure what he said was an over-exaggeration but it made me smile anyway.
The show was great. I really got goosebumps every time the actor who played the Phantom sang. It was a good day... long and tiring but worth it. The rest of my week suffered from not getting home until 2 am but everyone had a great time and I'm glad we went.
Monday afternoon, since the kids didn't have school, we had another Disney night... well, Disney day anyway. We watched Aladdin (which I found for sale in our local grocery store even though it's been in the Disney Vault for some time now.). Nobody likes middle eastern food except for, maybe, DH. So, we had baked potatoes with chili and popcorn chicken. We made chocolate chip cookies for dessert and played Bingo again... they sure love to play that while we watch the movies. I didn't take any pictures this time but we didn't decorate or anything to you guys are missing anything big. Stay tuned for next Disney night (either Hercules or Sword in the Stone.. it's my turn and I haven't decided yet.) Until then...
Look for an update of this post for pictures later today.
