Wicked!!

This Friday we attended the musical "Wicked" in Minneapolis!!  Jim bought the tickets back in May as a surprise for Karly's birthday.  What a fun night!  We left Mason with a friend of DJ's for the evening (bad idea, more later), and went up with Karly and Preston for a dinner and then the show.  At first Preston was convinced that he was giving up valuable "friend time" to go to a boring play but he ended up loving it.  I have the soundtrack and they have heard it a million times so they knew the music.   Before the play we went out to eat at Applebee's, for us that's the epitome of fine dining!  It actually was the first restaurant that we saw on the long walk between the parking garage of Jim's work and the theater, we were all starving and it looked wonderful.  This winter Shrek and Billy Elliott are both coming to Minneapolis, we are hoping to save our pennies and take the kids to them.  Kasey and I saw Billy Elliott on her school trip to London and it was so good.  Of course since I was in London I probably would have loved staring at a wall, it would have been a London wall of course. 
     Endnote:  18-yr-old babysitter decides to have a little party while he's at our house with baby.  I hear about this at church on Sunday:  So. . . . there was a party at your house, my kid was invited along with many others. . . etc.  It was peaceful, but a mixed crowd,  and so not cool.  But all is now well after a visit with the guilty party.  He won't be babysitting for us again.