ready or not, here come the holidays!

Hello all! I hope it wasn't too difficult to keep your anticipation over this blog entry at bay. I don't even have a good excuse for being late. I just forgot that I wanted to write the blog this week until I was about to go to bed!

Last Wednesday I opened another show in Frankfurt, as Chad mentioned in his previous blog. It almost didn't feel like an opening, because I did eleven performances of that same show last season! Even though I remembered all the staging perfectly, it's interesting to notice the little things that one forgets! And isn't the magic in the little things? Or maybe the magic is just in the singing and dancing... And the sparkly costume... :-)

Taking a break from my normal daily activity of pining over Chad, on Sunday I went to a lovely concert that our friends Paula and Eamonn put on. Paula is a singer at Oper Frankfurt, and though Eamonn is not a professional singer, he has a beautiful voice! They, along with some instrumentalists, presented a beautiful programs of folk songs from their native Ireland. Paula played the concertina during the concert, and brought it out again during the many hours we spent at dinner afterwards! The concert was held at a church in a neighborhood I'm not very familiar with, and was delighted to be introduced to a restaurant called Zum Adler. The pictures on the website don't do it justice! The place is full of charm, plus they brew their own beer! Really, what's not to like!

Paula (playing her concertina) and Eamonn

at the restaurant Zum Adler

I'm sure Christmas decorations are popping up all over in States, and the same goes for Germany! I went to Ikea on Monday, and their Christmas displays are in full force! I'll admit, I caved in and bought some Christmas decorations. Everything is just so cute there! And Swedish! Frankfurt is also getting ready for their big Christmas market, which will open while Chad's here over the Thanksgiving holidays! My friend Florian and I walked through one of the plazas where the market will be, and we got to witness them putting up the huge Christmas tree. You'll notice the cherry picker machine in the picture below... The people in it were inserting branches into the tree trunk! Now, I'm not sure if these branches were original to the tree and were removed for transportation reasons, or if the people in charge of the tree thought "Hmm, the branches are looking a little sparse this year... Let's go ahead and just add some more!". In any case, I'm sure it'll end up looking beautiful, especially on a chilly evening, perhaps while sharing a mug of Glühwein with my honey... Oh boy, you can tell I miss Chad when I start submitting you all to my sentimentality! :-D I think that's a sign I need to wrap this up! Have a wonderful week all!

Still a work in progress...