| July 17th, 2008 |
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The drive back from Ashland was a grueling 11 hour trip, with traffic in Portland and Tacoma, but thankfully not in Seattle. And that 11 hours did include 2 stops: one at the Cascade Raptor Center and one at Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland. Yes, there will be Bacon Maple Bars at the game tonight!
The last play, The Comedy of Errors, was enjoyed by everyone in out party . . . except me. It was set in the American Wild West, while didn't thrill me, but re-staging like that doesn't automatically turn me off. Sometimes that works.
What bothered the heck out of me though was that this play had been re-written. About 80% of the play by my estimate had been re-written into modern English and tweaks had been made to make it fit the Wild West. But several of the key exchanges were kept in the original Elizabethan English, which meant that you couldn't understand them at all because it takes (at least for me and a few others I've talked to about this) some time for your brain to get used to unravelling the unusual language.
The worst part, however, was that it had also been turned into a musical. Do I need to say more? Let's just say that I don't care for musicals.
The "thing" we bought on Monday in Ashland has now been revealed and is called Sven. Sven is a five-foot tall Playmobil display piece, the sort you would put in your store window. He is not pristine, and has some tears in his plastic, but we will take good care of him. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sabledrake describes her surprise in her LJ.
Here are some pictures of Sven:
The drive back was uneventful. Sven filled up the car and I was afraid we were going to have to abandon our cooler full of soda to get him to fit, but we jostled and folded down seats and got them both in there.
We wound up stopping at the same Sizzler for lunch on the drive back that we had stopped at going down. Hopefully sims2freak will post about the Raptor Center is her LJ.
Downtown historic Portland was really nice: Old buildings, cosmopolitan flair, a little seedy but not over so (the theatre next door to the doughnut shop advertised that it played Hentai after midnight, lol). And Google Maps got us there through a maze of one-way streets and trolly-only streets perfectly, which impressed me.
I do have to say that Becca was great the whole trip. She managed to maintain her surly gothiness while not answering in monosylables and making her grandparents feel like she'd rather be anywhere else. She was never super negative (except during the great Wrap expedition, but I think everyone was getting negative at that point) and managed to keep up her spirits when she was bored. Buying her some books definitely helped, even if she did get lost in them a few times. She was great fun to be with, and I really enjoyed spending time with her.
Everyone should expect lots of Flair in the Facebooks from her!Current Mood:  rejuvenated |
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