Phantom Movie

Last day of Spring Break!  We had a decent day, a quiet day too, certainly when compared to all the action of the last few days.  In fact, I was pretty worn down the entire day.  Still, the show must go on as they say, and there was a service to plan for this upcoming Sunday at KidPak.  I got right on that at the office, and can't do anything without Mom's help.  She was there for a bit, gathering costumes and working hard to help things get going for Sunday.  It'll be a good day, the start of our series "Exodus," and a return to that story from the Bible.  Earlier we had watched "The Ten Commandments" in honor of that, and soon we'll have to watch "The Prince of Egypt," particularly with the passing of Val Kilmer recently.  Along those lines, on the treadmill I started watching "Tombstone," just because it is one of the top five western movies ever made, right?  Maddie will have to watch that some time.  

In the meantime, tonight's viewing was "The Phantom of the Opera," at least the musical movie.  None of us had seen this before, the movie version of the play that wasn't too bad.  The music of course is really good, and I'm fairly close to having the entire first act of it memorized as I listened to it so often back in the day.  Self-control had me not singing along the entire time and annoying everyone about that!  So the reason for the viewing was our recent Discworld book that we're reading, "Maskerade," which we're nearly done with. We read some from that tonight, and I think we'll actually be done with the book tomorrow.  I would have finished tonight, but I was so incredibly tired that I was falling asleep while reading it out loud.  Have you ever done that before?  It's such a surreal thing reading a book out loud and falling asleep while you do that.  Maddie's like... ?  And I sort of return and say, "Ya know?  I think maybe we take a break here and finish up tomorrow?"

Anyway, we enjoyed the movie.  Still like the stage production better, of course, although there were certainly some things the movie was able to do better.  The nostalgia of that time, the hugeness of the stage production in its initial run - it all seemed so important then.  It was like "Hamilton" a few years ago, where only the most blessed had tickets to see this production, and if you saw it in London or Broadway you were incredibly fortunate.  We did see it back in the day, and in fact I saw it a few times in person.  Maddie has not, but I do think she will inevitably see this play should it come around again.  

It was a sunny day today, and it's really warm out there - nice weather!  Although I think it's supposed to get colder again soon?  Spring weather up and down.  But wow, we sure did time things right with our trip.  Thank you, Lord!

So what did Maddie do today on her last day of Spring Break?  We mentioned going to taekwondo, of course.  Maddie spent a good bit of sparring.  She sometimes really likes it, other times not so much.  Let's just say it's "hit or miss."  See what I did there?

Anyway, it was a good day, and an early sleep for me, at least.  We'll sleep in a bit tomorrow, but there's taekwondo, and maybe some other things tomorrow night to do.  We'll see you then!