So today I woke up and it was really foggy. And it was really cold. By the time I was driving to the library, the temperature was still in the 40s. I think this means the growing season is over. Which is fine, because my tomato plants started rotting while I was in the deep South. So please excuse the pathetic brown things with red tomatoes hanging from them :). They are only my rotten tomato plants. Which are, as of today, down to only the tomatoes witch had no hope, because they, too, were rotting. Mostly green ones. But that's a shame. Oh well. I picked a plastic shopping bag full of tomatoes.
So Lea's son does a lot of acting and singing. He has a lot of talent for it. And pretty much all summer, he spent a lot of his time rehearsing for his role as Joaquin in the play Fame. Well, it opened the weekend I was at Julie's, but Lea had comp tickets that could only be used the first 2 weekends of the play, so that meant she and I needed to go this past weekend so we could go for free. And so that's exactly what we did. We both worked on Saturday -- different shifts, so that was a bummer. But I worked and then ran errands to pick up all the ingredients for the Coca Cola Cake I made for dessert for our Marvelous Monday Meals! Came home, cut the grass (which was in desperate need of it), and then got a shower to get ready for our fun night. I met Lea at her house at 6, and we rode to The Big Apple Diner where I got a cheeseburger and a cherry coke (they make the best cherry cokes there) and we enjoyed good conversation.
We got the the venue for the play at about 7:15. We already had our tickets, so we were all ready to go in. And then we ran into this kid outside that does ballroom dancing at the same place Lea's son does. And he said he forgot his money to see the play, so Lea ended up paying for him to get in, which meant we had to stand in line for a good long while. And the kid was very polite. Very strange, but polite. And hilarious. During intermission, someone asked Lea if this kid was her other son, and she said, "No." But Jake (the kid) piped up and said, "I could be a son." Lea looked at him and said, "Don't push it." And we all laughed. And then Jake turned to the guy next to him on the other side (whom we didn't know at all and seemed to be there by himself) and said, "You could be my dad." Which made that guy laugh and roped him into conversation.
The play was really awesome. One character in particular was hilarious. Lea's son (Xavier) did a great job also. But his character wasn't meant to be a funny one. In fact, his character gets slapped in the face by the teacher for being rude. I'd go see it again -- and even pay for it this time! It was just so fun to see!
So, after the play, the whole cast went out to the lobby, so we went out and took a picture with Xavier: (Yes, that's really Lea's son. I know she doesn't look old enough to have a 15 year old son).
So yeah, we had a really fun night :). Full of great memories! And so we continue our motto: It's only fun when it's fun!
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