For Christmas Michael got me a trip to Los Angeles to see the Iris Cirque du Soleil.
Let me just say that I was so excited! I have been wanting to see a Cirque performance for a long long time (and not just because my middle name is Soleil). We had originally scheduled the trip for the end of January, but of course the day after we purchased the tickets Michael got called away to Taiwan. So here we are three months later - yay for extended Christmas.
We knew traffic would be bad in L.A. on a Friday evening so we attempted to leave early (1pm) in order to avoid it... apparently we didn't leave early enough as it still took us four hours to get to the hotel. No worries though, we grabbed a quick bite to eat and then headed to the Kodak Theater.
It was super fancy
The show was even better than what the preview made it seem like. Our favorite part was when they would film some of the performers as they were moving and have it show up on a screen behind them with a lag so that it looked like there were a dozen people doing the same thing only each a second after one another. I also really enjoyed when they would fly out over the audience. The whole show just leaves you in awe at what some people can do.
On the way home we were walking along looking at all the stars on the sidewalk when we came across this one...
Michael loathes Nicolas Cage more than anyone, so naturally we had to take a picture of them together.
We tried using the timer to get a shot of us together, but it just wasn't working out so we had to resort to the usual arm reach.
It was a great weekend!
In other news, we woke up Sunday morning to a tragedy.
One of our beloved blueberry bushes had fallen off the ledge. Imagine our surprise when we looked at our balcony and only saw two bushes.
Luckily the bush (and the majority of blueberries) survived and only the pot was cracked.
Michael was devastated.
Naturally, Lily was our first suspect. Michael often cares more about the welfare of the blueberries than Lily and so the tragedy may have been a result of jealousy. For example, during the last storm Michael was worried about the blueberries either falling over the side or "getting too cold" and so he tenderly brought them into our bathtub for the night. Meanwhile, he threw Lily outside to "see what she would do."
Lily handled our questions well and pretended not to know about the incident, but we'll be keeping a better eye out from now on...
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