Softball Sunday! Woo hoo! I got to play another game :) I know I’ve said it before but I’m saying it again, I love playing! We’ve got a great bunch of folks playing and we’re not too shabby. We even won this game! I look forward to this every year since I got invited to play with the group. Heck, I was quite upset the first year they played and formed the team without me even though I’d committed to playing while in the interest phase. Alas, they smartened up and got me on the team eventually!
Earlier in the day, my home teachers stopped in for a visit. They a nice couple of guys – one works for a cancer research center in LA and the other is a local cop. Can’t ask for a better couple of guys to check in on me each month or who I can go to if I need anything. They even brought me cookies (which a wife had made!).
The rest of my week was taken up with two things – prepping for Grad Nite Explosion and Mother’s Day celebration (a day early). I spent all of my work hours prepping and rehearsing the pyrotechnic dance extravaganza the grads get to enjoy twice a night at 1am and 3am. This year’s big ‘gimmick’ (for lack of a better word at the moment) is a trampoline (tumble track) set in the stage and those acrobats in costumes that light up (similar to those used in the Super Bowl Halftime Show this year). It was several long days – yup, that’s right – days! The girl who’d been working the swing shift (3pm-midnight) for the past few months suddenly had shifts beginning at 8am!!!! But when you have an amazing cast & crew like I have for this event/show – it’s all worth it. My cast is so very talented and they are taught by some very, very talented choreographers! It makes my job so much easier – gives me time to deal with the headache that is pyro closures/restrictions and procedures.
I tried to get a head start on the chaos this year but I think I just stirred up a kettle of fish (whatever that really means!). Thankfully, I think I have it all worked out. The test will be the first night we have the crazy wind conditions that shut just about all of Fantasyland down! When I wasn’t in rehearsal with the dancers or dealing with procedure paperwork, I got to learn about trampoline and acrobatics – well, a little anyway. Again, I have great tumblers who are willing to try and figure stuff out as we figured it out :) I am truly blessed to be surrounded by wonderfully talented folk.
On Saturday, I got to put work behind me for a day – while everyone else at Disneyland was working the World Premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides, I got to spend the day with a couple of mothers in my life: my Mom, Joanne, and sister, Karen. Unfortunately, my sister Sarah is just too far away (Seattle, WA) to spend the day with – but I heard her family treated her well. Mom, Karen, and I started our day with lunch at Café Rio in Laguna Hills. 
After lunch, it was Mani/Pedi time! We headed up to a local Happy Nails Salon and Spa for our girly delight. We all decided to upgrade to the spa treatment with hand and foot massages and other luxuries included. I even went so far as to get my eyebrows waxed and shaped (maybe too much info but I don’t care!) Sitting there with my family, getting my hands and feet pampered, I could totally see how the well-to-do make this a part of their lifestyle. I suppose if I wanted to do without certain other luxuries, I could reappoint that money to this – it’s all a matter of priorities I suppose. Perhaps one day, this will be a stronger priority for me… I certainly did enjoy it!
When our nails were all pur-dy, we headed out for some good old-fashioned shopping. We intended to just briefly stop in to Bath and Body Works but they were having a sale. On top of that, they had a bonus bag full of awesome stuff for not much money if you spent so much money (I know, right!). But the lady into the store just before us took the last one. However, the helpful employee called another store and held a bag for us. So it was back in the car and off to the Mission Viejo Mall and the store with the bags. We each spent over the required amount and got our bonus bag full of goodies. And, yes, while we spent a significant amount of money on bath soap, lotions, and sprays – I won’t have to buy anything else for at least a year (maybe more!)!! By the time we got back to the first BBW, I was exhausted so I headed home. But Mom and Karen continued their kid-free shopping for a little bit longer. I think it was quite a successful girls day out! Happy Mother’s Day!
p.s. after lunch, I intended to take more pictures but plain forgot! :(
