A Hard Knocked Life

The girls have loved the show, "Annie", for quite some time now (Asher even knows all the songs) and Paul and I said we would take them to it if it ever came in town. We were so excited when we found out it was coming to Kingsbury Hall. Paul so generously got tickets for all of us even though it pretty much blew our movie budget for the year and we all went on Sat. the 12th. It was so much fun! We have both versions (crude Carol Burnett, and not so crude Kathy Bates) of the movies and we are all in agreement that we like the new version(Kathy Bates) better, so we were hoping it would be more like that version. We were quite surprised that there were parts in it that weren't in either movie, but it was excellent! It better have been for the amount of money we spent on it. The girls were very well behaved and we left Asher home with a babysitter so we could enjoy ourselves. Speaking of the babysitter, I can't describe how nice it was to call our neighbor girl and have her just walk across the street on time and then just walk home when we got home. I could really get used to this.  As much as we love our little guy, it was really fun to spend time with just the girls. They loved it so much! They saw that "Wicked" is coming next year and they want to go to that now. We'll see.

Anyway, the funniest thing that happened was a squabble over the seats behind us. Two different groups said they had tickets for the seats and they couldn't get it straightened out, so they got the usher involved and it turns out one group had tickets for the next day. They had read their tickets wrong. I felt bad for them, but it was really funny. Just a little pre-show entertainment.

I forgot my camera, so these are phone pictures, but they'll have to do.

Me and the girls before the show

Claire getting "Annie's" autograph after the show

Claire and Emma with "Annie" after the show. Abbey wouldn't get in the picture.