Well last night was one of my nights to go with Mom to the Muny (St. Louis Municipal Opera). We saw Cats. This was my, I believe, fourth or fifth time at the Muny, although I can really only remember last year and two other times right now.

I had never seen Cats before, didn’t even know what it was about, but I enjoyed it. I mean, if you like musicals and cats, it’s probably your thing. It wasn’t the best thing I’d ever seen, I probably enjoyed last year’s showing of Showboat more, but it was certainly good. Mostly it’s just song and dance, and there really isn’t much of a storyline. I still don’t understand this thing about “Jellicle” cats. But it was really cute, and, as always, a very well put-together show. The Muny people are just awesome when it comes to that. Makes me want to be involved – not in singing and dancing, of course, but I’m more saying, hey that lighting was cool, near smoke effect, etc.

Of course the singing was just awesome. There were a few numbers that I recognized, and a few more that I just really, really enjoyed. It’s just too bad that Gina won’t try out for the Muny Kids – she sings so well. But she refuses to even try and dance. (She won’t try out for American Idol, either, because “it’s not my type of music.” :P)

After church, we did the editing and such (btw, seems next week I am on my own, for directing and such. He said forget the editing, but all else is soley up to me… eek!) and I headed over to mom’s. I chilled there for a bit and then we left, got some supper on the way, and arrived at the Muny with a lot of time to spare. She wanted to get there early to make sure she got a good parking spot. We parked in the upper lot this time, we usually park in the lower lot, and it turned out not to be such a good idea, but it wasn’t real bad.

We pulled up some shade and ate our supper then headed down and fed the ducks. On the way down to feed the ducks, some woman behind me goes, “Excuse me, ma’am?” My first thought was #$%#. But that wasn’t the case.

Yeah, ducks don’t like guacamole doritoes. Of course, neither do I, I wouldn’t expect them to. The fish did, however; and the ducks liked the croutons. LOL that’s my mom for ya, bring chips and croutons for the ducks.

Then we headed up, ran into someone we know, then were able to get our seats.
Let me tell you, it was the most miserable heat out! I am not kidding, it was like today and just a few minutes ago, my outdoor thermometer said it was nearly 99 degrees out.

The show was good, but I was just sooooo miserable the WHOLE time because it was just so extremely hot. My jeans were actually burning my legs. So I was actually kind of relieved that it was over, but only because of the heat.

After the show, we left, and since it takes a half an hour at least to get out of the stupid Forest Park (the Central Park of St. Louis), and Mom wanted to go to Steak n Shake, we didn’t get back to her house until after 1am. So I arrived at my house just around 2 and crawled into bed. :D

Now Sheila & Sarah can have more ideas for cat names, haha:
Mr. Mistoffelees
Munkustrap
Jennanydots
Demeter
Bombalurina
Jellylorum
Grizabella
Bustopher
Mungojerrie
Rumpelteazer
The Run Tum Tugger
Old Deuteronomy
The Rumpus Cat
Sillabub
Asparagus
Growltiger
Griddlebone
Genghis
Alonzo
and of course, who could forget Macavity?