WICKED 2/12/2011

In the words of the cute neighbor boy on the movie Incredibles:

"That was TOTALLY WICKED!"

The above picture is the girls posing with fear in front of the very impressive dragon that spans the stage! When the play starts, the dragons eyes turn red, smoke comes out, and it moves back and forth! It is very impressive and loud! It scared little Daphne back to sit with the grown ups! We had it set up 8 seats clumped together, 4 and then 4 behind....so, we had the kids sit in front of us. She felt safer moving back with the grown ups!

We were going to take Loralyn, but she decided she wanted to go to Brentyn's b-day party instead. We took Gabby instead of Roo. We probably should have just taken Loralyn, because she would have loved it! But, it was fun to see how much Lydia and Gabby enjoyed the show! Lydia had the advertisement taped on her wall for 8 months hoping we would get the hint that she wanted us to take her! We did! And she LOVED it!

It's a girls pose! Gabby, me, and Lydia...what fun we had!

We are SO GRATEFUL for the Garietys! They were able to get tickets early. They called and asked if we wanted them to order some for us, and of course we did! They were FANTASTIC seats! We were close enough to see the facial expressions of the actors! And, they are some of our favorite people in the entire universe, so it made it fun to be able to go with them! This is Arthur, Sharee, Dallin, and Daphne. We asked Bobby when Roo backed out, "Do you want to go to Wicked with us? " "No"! That was it! :) He would've loved it too!

Here is Steve joining in for the group shot! And what a handsome addition! It is so fun for me to think he is my date forever! :) What a great show: great music, clever story, hilarious lines, and wonderful acting!

We were all STARVING after the show, and so we stopped a Fudruckers! Here are the kids waiting for their grub!
I was so glad Sharee had Steve take this picture of us! She said, "We never get pictures taken together", and sadly that is true! We have done TONS of fun things together, she is one of my very best friends, and I think this is our first picture together in the 7 years we've been friends! We have a lot of our kids together through the years, but we are the ones behind the camera! Good job Sharee on making sure our friendship did get documented! :)
Cute Gariety's Daphne and Dallin holding up their Wicked program and enjoying good eats!
Gabby and Lydia with their program! LOVING the whole expererience! Lydia still talks about how much fun that was!

What a fabulous outing for us! It was really fun to see Lydia just enthralled with it all, and to be with such great friends! Great show, good company, good food...makes for an OUTSTANDING afternoon, and a terrific memory to had to our collection!