a very busy day, and i’m about to go to rehearsal, which i’m sure will be fun and very exciting, with much rousing singing of “hand me down that can of beans,” plus dancing.
did i tell you about the dancing so far? we learned how to polka, except i already know how to polka. i polka’d with gil, who was in “you can’t take it with you” with me, and he’s a very good polka-er. it was quite fun. my polka partner, andy, wasn’t there, so i don’t know if he can polka or not. erica assured me that he knows how; she said that he’s a MUSIC teacher, so therefore he knows how. i don’t know exactly why a music teacher is guaranteed to polka, but erica is in graduate school right now (even though she already HAS a master’s degree), so clearly, she knows much more about what’s going on than me.
we also practiced sashaying across the floor. just us women, that is, the fandangos, we’re called. there are two high school girls who are fandangos, and they weren’t able to master the sashay or the polka, but i’m sure they’ll get better.
tonight, perhaps we learn the can can. can’t say for sure.
and tomorrow, TOMORROW – mom and i are taking the train to chicago, to see “wicked.” very exciting. except that it’s supposed to be only 61 with STRONG STORMS tomorrow, not such a good thing. i’m bringing my umbrella.
we’re leaving at 6:30 a.m., and we won’t get back till thursday night, and hopefully we’ll have a lot of fun doing fun chicago things, but for me that would mean lots of walking around, but i don’t know about the strong storms…perhaps we’ll sit in the hotel room and watch tv, or we’ll find a nice bar and sit around and drink margaritas.
i have to pack now. lots of reading material for the train.
ok then,
grace who would like to travel a LOT more. this is one of my new goals in life. not really a new goal, but one that i’m going to try to actually put into action, instead of just wishing that it’ll happen.