Day 2: South Pacific, starring Bryan Rees

Not much happened today up until Bryan's play. I did some laundry and read a little (I brought John Updike's In the Beauty of the Lillies, which I bought back in December because I needed something to read on my way to Michigan. I'm only 150 pages through it). Then we went to eat at some Italian place near the Kohl's where mom works. Then we dropped off Bryan for his rehearsals, went home and goofed off a little more, and finally returned around 7:30 for the play.

Update: here's some pictures of Bryan in the play

I should note that Dad's in Ohio still, with the Austin Science Olympiad kids. It's Nationals this weekend, and they had an "emergency" with one of the events, so dad went out to help. Whatever, I say. Dad was looking for any excuse to go out there. I can't believe he still keeps such close contact with these kids. He's been gone from Austin 2 years, and it's been even longer since one of his own kids was involved with the program. Guess he just really wants to work with kids.

Don't worry though, supposedly he'll be home in time for Mother's Day tomorrow. And he'll catch Bryan's play next week. In the meantime, Chris and I sat on the back row and recorded the event (I got to use my tripod for the first time). Actually, it was more like I recorded and Chris played "Conquest," which is a Risk type game on my PDA. We've been playing off and on all day. Not quite as fun as risk though, because the AI opponents are pretty easy to figure out. But back to the play. I wasn't expecting much from a whole bunch of middle schoolers doing South Pacific, and that's exactly what I got. It's hard to find a thirteen year old that can sing. Still, the lead actress did a pretty good job. Bryan, meanwhile, was great. Well, not singing, really, as he didn't really much of a singing part anyways. But I was proud of him for the way he carried himself on the stage. He looked like he really belonged up there, which is more than I can say for a lot of the kids. I hope he keeps doing stuff like this. I sure wish I had tried out for some plays in High School. (A little psychoanalysis: am I bordering along the lines of trying to relive my childhood through my little brother? You bet I am :). Not going to happen, of course, since I'm never around. So I'm not to worried about it, yet).

After that, Chris and Katie and I went out shopping for a Mother's Day present. I thought that with it being 11:00 when we left, we'd have plenty of time to grab something, but Chris and Katie are seriously indecisive and understandably reluctant to spend money. So we spent an hour going through various Manassas pharmacies and grocery stores (along with a surprising amount of other last minute shoppers). Then, they all started to close, so we ended up just grabbing a plant and a card.

Posted May 10, 2003 (11:22 PM) | Comments (1)