Totally worth it.
So we arrive at the theater where the show is happening, and I start looking through the credits of the people that are in the show. And they're a bunch of FSU college students. The lead is a sophomore from there in fact. I'm getting a little worried about how much time and money I've put into this trip at this point.
Not even a factor. This was probably more energy packed than the professional tour that came out a decade ago. These actors were over the top on everything they did. Best show ever. And the theater was so small. It was like the show was being put on for you personally .. they were so close to where you were sitting. I got to walk around and shake hands and talk to all the actors afterwards. Awesome folks. Obviously just a bunch of "amateurs" that loved what they did. One of the leads was a high school teacher and he had a bunch of his students show up and they were just giggling and carrying on about what he was doing on stage. He looked a little embarassed.
Then we headed home. While on I-10 coming back (about 20 minutes down the road) we saw a car cut in front of a semi and seemingly clip the front end, because he then proceeded to fly off the road, through the ditch, through a fence, and into the trees about 30 yards away. We got off the road and ran over to help out. They told me to call 911 while the others ran down in the ditch to get the people out of the car. Ended up just being one guy in the car, and by the time I got down there he was standing on the side of the road. One of the guys that got him out was yelling, "What were you thinking? Cutting off that semi ... you could have been killed!" The kid was just standing there .. not saying a word, not even really looking all that alive. He was obviously pretty messed up ... almost a post-trauma thing. He was a little cut up and bruised but otherwise he was fine. We took off after that.
Then we changed into swimgear and took the first road south to the beach. We stopped in Panama City about 8:00 and went swimming. Then we got back in the car, drove down to Destin, got out and went swimming about 10pm. Finally we took off for good and got back to Lafayette at abot 4:30am and then back to Big Sandy about 9:00am. I got my rental car back to DFW airport about 11:30am. And then I hung out with Lacey and Kristin (who picked me up after that) for the rest of the afternoon until about 4:30. At which point I went to bed and didn't see anything til 7am this morning. I needed it.
BEST. SHOW. EVER.
Not even a factor. This was probably more energy packed than the professional tour that came out a decade ago. These actors were over the top on everything they did. Best show ever. And the theater was so small. It was like the show was being put on for you personally .. they were so close to where you were sitting. I got to walk around and shake hands and talk to all the actors afterwards. Awesome folks. Obviously just a bunch of "amateurs" that loved what they did. One of the leads was a high school teacher and he had a bunch of his students show up and they were just giggling and carrying on about what he was doing on stage. He looked a little embarassed.
Then we headed home. While on I-10 coming back (about 20 minutes down the road) we saw a car cut in front of a semi and seemingly clip the front end, because he then proceeded to fly off the road, through the ditch, through a fence, and into the trees about 30 yards away. We got off the road and ran over to help out. They told me to call 911 while the others ran down in the ditch to get the people out of the car. Ended up just being one guy in the car, and by the time I got down there he was standing on the side of the road. One of the guys that got him out was yelling, "What were you thinking? Cutting off that semi ... you could have been killed!" The kid was just standing there .. not saying a word, not even really looking all that alive. He was obviously pretty messed up ... almost a post-trauma thing. He was a little cut up and bruised but otherwise he was fine. We took off after that.
Then we changed into swimgear and took the first road south to the beach. We stopped in Panama City about 8:00 and went swimming. Then we got back in the car, drove down to Destin, got out and went swimming about 10pm. Finally we took off for good and got back to Lafayette at abot 4:30am and then back to Big Sandy about 9:00am. I got my rental car back to DFW airport about 11:30am. And then I hung out with Lacey and Kristin (who picked me up after that) for the rest of the afternoon until about 4:30. At which point I went to bed and didn't see anything til 7am this morning. I needed it.
BEST. SHOW. EVER.
posted by Karl at 7:24 AM
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Yay, that's awesome, Karl! (Minus the car flying off the road bit.)
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