Morning, Gents! Hope everyone had a good weekend. I had a good weekend. My DD's production of The Nutcracker was this weekend, and what a production. This is a dance studio's production, but the artistic director does bring some professionals in for the big stuff in Act 2, but otherwise it's all students...and my DD was the best dancer up there!
Naturally. This has a bit of a twist to it. The director decided that when she started doing this, she was going to take the story of The Nutcracker and adapt it to Cape Cod's nautical history. Thus The Sea Captain's Nutcracker was born. So in Act 1 there are pirates instead of the Mouse King and what not. I don't know The Nutcracker very well, so I honestly don't know all the characters in the story, but it does have a nautical twist to it, and it comes off as a great story/production. Either way, this is a great production, and I believe the only dance studio on the Cape that does a full production of The Nutcracker. This happens every 2 years, with last year being the exception because of COVID, so the next one won't happen until 2023. I did make it to rehearsal on Friday and took over 560 photos, I'm going through them now, and came up with some good pictures. Act 2 opens with what's called the "Tides and Waves," and my DD was one of those tides and waves. I won't show pictures of actual dancers on here, being minors and all, but here's a picture I took of the tides and waves:
To come up with the water, the director uses 3 long rolls of silk material that that the students will then wave up and down to create the waves. Oh, they do have little mice, those being the next to the youngest dancers. And OMG are they adorable.
Well, off to make breakfast and then off to work. Have a good day, gents, and we'll chat later.
TTFN
Thanks for the welcome (again). I know it's been awhile since I posted. Is this what happens when you don't visit the boards that often. LOL. BTW, this is Malvin.
Hey, Malvin! Welcome back. Hope you stick around for a while.
I did, sir. Ready to tackle the leftovers today. No since putting the stretchy pants back in the drawer after only one day. Hope your day was fabulous.
You put your stretchy pants away after ONLY ONE DAY?! Ok, so I did, as I had to go to work, but I had to be shoehorned into my pants....and I couldn't breath deeply.
Is this her studio's recital? Or is she involved in a larger group's seasonal multi-performance production, or... ?
This is a studio performance, and they do this every 2 years. This is a large studio and a great studio.
I'm hoping just one passes right now. The other one isn't bothering me (yet) and I could use a break.
Let's hope the one passes quickly.
That's the single thing I'm not looking forward to in Germany....cold.
But...it takes lemons to make lemonade and to be able to see Europe, see castles, eat as many authentic brats as I can stuff in my face, drive the Autobahn, tour the rhine and even meet up with Dan
, it's worth the sacrifice.
Funny thing....it's only 15 degrees colder today.
33 there vs. 48 here.
Where in Germany? I think I asked this, but can't remember.
Good morning gents. Not much going on here today other than jumping on the treadmill to start working off the Thanksgiving pounds and watching the final weekend of regular season college football. Hope everyone enjoys theirs.
You use your treadmill? Mine's being used as a storage rack.
Learning metric in general. They do kph as well.
Below 0C - you're insane, right?
0C - Freaking freezing
5C - freaking cold
10C - mildly cold
15C - chilly
20C - brisk
25C - perfect
30C - little warm
35C - hot
40C - fry an egg on the pavement
See? I got this!
Anything less than 150 kph - get out of my way granny
160 kph - almost there
200 kph - just getting fun
250 kph - nice cruising speed
300 kph - now we're talking
350 kph - YEAH BUDDY!!!!
Don't forget to learn how to order beer in German. That's very important, you know.