Treasure Island

Well, the rain came back tonight, new and improved with big heavy clouds, lightning, thunder and lots of downpours.  July is 16 for 17 right now on rainy days, which is a really good average for downpours!  Torrents of rain plummeted down on us all in North Georgia, yet another heavy wave of storms that saturated the ground.  

Daddy was at the office for most of the day, but the great news was that Madison and Mommy got an invitation to a special place tonight - for free!  They got to go to... Treasure Island!

We were planning on going to see "Treasure Island" at the local community theater, but suddenly realized that we weren't quite able to.  And yet right after we figured that out, just as suddenly our friend Karen, who is in the production, extended an invitation for us to see a sneak preview of the performance ahead of time.  She did this last time when Mommy and Daddy went to see "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."  This time, it was the pirate play, "Treasure Island."  Madison dressed up as a pirate to go see the performance, as Daddy had fun with the services at KidPak.

This morning, we told Madison about the performance and getting to go see pirates.  Initially, she wasn't exactly thrilled - in fact she was crying a bit.  The reason?  She wanted to go do KidPak Jr. tonight!  We were pleasantly shocked to hear her desire to go to church - of course, we weren't going to deny her that if she really wanted to go.  But she weighed it out this morning, knowing she'd get to dress up like a pirate and see a bunch of other pirates pillage and plunder.  This opportunity would come once, and KidPak Jr. is going on every Wednesday and Sunday.  Additionally, Daddy is spending some Bible time with her each night now, so she carefully thought out all of these factors and decided "a pirate's life for me!"

Karen was tickled to see Madison right there in the front row, all dressed up as a pirate.  Though some of the pirate lingo may have been over her head, there were some other bits that had her cracking up.  Everything went well at the production, by all accounts, and afterwards, Madison came by the dressing room with Mommy to visit our friend.  She was quite happy Madison could make it, and glad she enjoyed the show.  Karen was already out of her costume by that point, so we didn't do any group pirate shot - but we usually get those on Sunday mornings anyway.  Karen is a big part of our children's ministry, doing a lot of wild characters for the kids - the most famous being the doughnut lady (someone quite obsessed with doughnuts).

In any event, Madison enjoyed the show, and came back rather late to the house with Mommy, making the drive in the pouring rain.  No doubt she'll be talking like a scurvy pirate all day tomorrow too!  Arrr!