My family grew up watching the 80's version of Pirates of Penzance. My siblings and I grew to love the music. So when I heard that Pirates of Penzance was coming to Wolftrap, I knew I had to go.
On Friday night, I drove to Wolftrap with Emma and staked out our lawn seats. We waited there for some of our family members and a couple of my friends. It was super hot that night. But it is summertime so I can't really complain.
We watched the show and I may have sung a long with some of the songs and my feet were dancing with the beat of the music. The policemen in the second half of the show were hilarious! I thought the major general did a good job with his "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General"
The play was awesome but I might have been a little distracted by the lightning flashing in the distance throughout the second half. But no thunder and no rain. The play ended and literally 2 minutes later, thunder boomed and the wind picked up. My friends and I started up the hill to exit, the lights flickered off and on. Then the rain started and the lights went off completely. (I must admit I was a little scared). But we continued on our way to our cars. Remember it was pouring rain, the wind was howling (winds got up to 70 miles/hour that night), the lights were out, and it was thundering and lightning.
By the time I got to my car, I was drenched. It looked like I had jumped into a pool with all of my clothes. And when I got to my car I could not find my keys in my purse. I was scared. But I got in my car and prayed then waited for about 10 or 15 minutes for traffic to die down and the storm to calm a bit.
Although the storm really did not last all that long, on the way home there were many huge branches in the road that we all had to dodge. I was driving slowly, but everyone on the road was doing the same. It took me quite a while to drive home that night, but thankfully my friends, family and I all got home safely and I said a little prayer of gratitude after arriving home safely to my pitch black and air conditionless house.
It was quite the way to end an awesome evening at Wolftrap!
2 comments:
That was an exciting night. I was sad to have missed the fun.
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I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
Although I have heard various versions of that fateful night, I enjoyed your story as well. So glad that you didn't lose your keys in the flight back to the car.
Very hopeful after all those years of indoctrination that you would sing along a bit with the dancing policemen!
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