Wicked!!

Last weekend we went up to Portland and saw the Broadway show Wicked. It was GREAT! The girls got all gussied up and we went ahead and got some swag to remember the occasion by.

Kind of funny, Whitney dressed up in this pink taffeta dress she got for Easter last year. When Galinda makes her grand entrance, she is wearing a pink flouncy dress too. It made Whitney look like quite the fan-girl. :-)



The show was at Keller auditorium in downtown Portland. The girls were absolutely riveted to the stage and both said they enjoyed the show. After the show we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory and had a great time slurping spaghetti. We finished up by going to my brother's house and the girls got some time with their cousin.

The next morning, the girls showed off their Wicked swag before we went to church.



When we got home from church I declared that a walk was in order. We had eaten very well in Portland and the sun was shining and the Valley was acting like it was July instead of April. As we walked along we came to a tree that was a vibrant pink with flowers on every inch of the canopy. When we got under the tree we realized that the whole tree was buzzing. I had the camera with me and took the opportunity to catch some honey bees doing their part to bring summer on.





We continued on to the park with the girls talking a mile a minute. Some friends crossed our path, headed for a baseball try-out. When we got done talking with them we noticed that the girlie-girls had never stopped. They were so into their own world of make-believe that we had ceased to exist. It was very fitting for the day and for the fantastic weekend we were finishing. This picture, to me, captures the way that weekend felt.




In the midst of all the world's chaos.... life is Good.

Land Shark