{"id":16817,"date":"2019-03-11T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:22:52","slug":"florida-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/florida-3\/","title":{"rendered":"florida!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

it was just so warm and sunny there and i wasn’t thrilled about driving back to the cold and snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but i’m getting ahead of myself…before florida, there was the beginning of february, with sweet riley hanging outside as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and then, bev and i took a short and fun trip up to chicago to see the Blue Man Group. i’d been dying to see them in their original habitat, the venue where it all began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

here we are before the show started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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it was a pretty good show…but the problem is that i’d built it up in my own mind so much that i was disappointed. when kevin and i saw it a few years ago here at sangamon auditorium, i felt it was the funniest, most wonderful performance i’d ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

yeah, expectations too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this time it just wasn’t as funny. could it be because i’d seen it, i knew what to expect? but i feel that they did funnier things back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

my biggest complaint with the chicago iteration is that it was deafeningly loud. when we first got to our seats, bev noticed that the kid next to her had a pair of earplugs in his lap. he told her they were free, and they were giving them out. he graciously scrabbled past the tightly-packed row of seats to get us some pairs, and he certainly saved my hearing quite a bit that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i know it wasn’t that loud when we saw the show here – maybe when they take the show on the road they think the small-town older crowd won’t appreciate the ear-shattering noise? or maybe sangamon auditorium is so big that they couldn’t crank it up full volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

kevin suggested that maybe their sound people have been doing the show so long that they’re going deaf and so the show keeps increasing in volume over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

whatever the reason, it was annoyingly loud to me even with earplugs. at the end of the show i took them out and was amazed at how much louder it was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

we enjoyed ourselves despite this, and stayed at a lovely downtown chicago hotel. bev, because she’s a saint, drove us into the city, braving the crazy traffic, and then she decided she’d drive all the way home. nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so i guess this post isn’t really about florida yet…except here’s poor lester, who knew we were going to be gone and was desperate to go with us.
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i love how riley looks like he’s praying here…please don’t leave us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ok, soon, many photos and videos of florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

g.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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