Once Pete went back to work, our summer activities were confined to the weekends! We spent a weekend in the Fox Valley with Kelley, Marty, Kalin and friends, then a night with Anita, Jeff and Ashley then capped off with a T-Rats Tailgate and game with Dad followed by dinner with Dad and Gram. It was a busy weekend - too busy obviously to take and pictures!!
The next week we entertained all of the Mullers and then the Abrahams, it's always great to see them and the kids are getting soooo big! Now it was time for me to go back to work -
My show is a nice one-person show called Isn't It Romantic, and I think it will be!
The last weekend before rehearsal started, we had a graduation lunch for our niece Ashley who is now off to school at St. Norberts. Jeff worked his voodoo with the Ribs - yumm - and it was fun to get the whole family together. Even the gimpersons! Like father like son!
On Friday before the party we weent to Irish Fest to see one of our favorite bands, Gaelic Storm. We had such a good time, we went back on Sunday!
And that's it - back to work!!
I actually think it is a little bit romantic! My show opened Saturday night - another world premier, my second this year!! A lovely song-book musical of the music of the Gershwins, Rogers & Hart and Jerome Kern. The script is fairly thin, but the music is fantastic and Jimi Ray Malaray (singer) is a delight to watch. So this is where I'll be for the next 2 months - as the song says "Nice Work If You Can Get It"!
At the end o fmy first week of rehearsal, The Rep had their company picnic. The picnic always consists of the annual kick-ball game, Interns vs. Staff. This year Pete convinced them to mix it up a little and they chose teams by counting off. Pete was on the winning team (the twos!) and even got a war wound from a particularly dramatic slide into second base!
As our last trip of the summer we had a mini-vacation to the Quad Cities to see a River Bandit's game. Prior to this summer they were known as the Swing of the Quad Cities but changed their name. It was their last game of the season and we had great seats - front row behind home plate. One of the fun things about the River Bandit's park is that they take the whole Field of Dreams thing seriously (Is this heaven? No it's Iowa) to the extent that they have a corn field at the left field foul pole and the players enter the field out of the corn. It was fun! Unfortuantly the River Bandits lost to the T-Rats, but we got to see the T-Rats pitcher throw an almost perfect game. He was one little in-field bloop from a no-hitter and besides that bloop, he threw a perfect game. We had a great day and it was a lovely little get-away trip before I went into tech.
The next week we entertained all of the Mullers and then the Abrahams, it's always great to see them and the kids are getting soooo big! Now it was time for me to go back to work - 
The last weekend before rehearsal started, we had a graduation lunch for our niece Ashley who is now off to school at St. Norberts. Jeff worked his voodoo with the Ribs - yumm - and it was fun to get the whole family together. Even the gimpersons! Like father like son!
