After playing about in Drumheller on the Friday, we decided to stick around in Calgary on the Saturday and take in the Glenbow Museum before catching the matinee of the Alberta Ballet's production of Fumbling Toward Ecstasy (the new ballet choreographed by Jean Grand-Maitre to the music of Sarah McLachlan) - such a great day! I'm not usually the biggest fan of any museum that's not of the natural history variety (i.e. ones that do not contain mostly bones and stones) but the Glenbow has got to be one of the best I have ever seen!!! I was told by a number of people I had to go, and boy were they right! The layout is well thought out, the displays tasteful, engaging and informative in a fun way that allows you to actually experience what they are trying to portray rather than just see it in a blank case. Loved the Canadian History and Indigenous sections. Honestly, why could we not just have spent our youth in there learning history rather than in class??? :P Seriously though. So well done :). Fumbling Toward Ecstasy was also excellent. Many of the pieces were mostly made up of variations on a theme, but the steps just looked like so much fun and the movements so athletic that you wanted to see them again and again! Definitely worth seeing if they take it on tour!
Sunday was a bit more of a relaxed day (as is fitting for mother's day - though in our case ma took advantage of our lazy morning to get work done *shakes head*). Went out for a bit of a wander to see more of the city - did you know that Calgary has foot placings on their air vents so that you don't get your heels stuck?? Such a good idea! They look like these jumbo massive foot prints :D - Before heading off to the Saddle Dome to catch the Stars on Ice tour. Omg, it was soooo good. Kurt Browning was there (of course!), Jeffery Buttle (He's so adorable - definitely the next Kurt Browning ;) ), Shawn Sawyer (and his inimitable standing centre splits), Sasha Cohen, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier (they were so in synch! It's so hard to believe they are no longer a couple), Joannie Rochette, Evan Lysachek, Kyoko Ina and last, but not least, Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir!!!! We got the tickets not knowing they were going to be there (worlds were the week before after all) and then found out they'd joined the tour the show before. Sooo happy I got to see them live!!! Scott looked a little worn but all in all they were just breathtakingly amazingly ... there are just no words, they were so good!!! They did a slightly altered version of their long program from worlds and another of their gala piece and let me tell you, if they'd skated like that the week before they might have beat Davis & White even with it having been their first comp this season. <3<3<3! I just love them all so much!!! and the group piece was a bunch of Jive numbers! Never been happier!! (How is Tessa such a phenomenal dancer??? I mean I'm glad she stuck with skating but the dance world is missing out! and Scott! *shakes head*). And Sasha, Kurt and David also did this wonderful clowning piece with a balloon. Love. Needless to say, I was on cloud nine for the rest of the day (week) and still am whenever I think about it :). My mom may have gotten slightly sick of hearing me repeat 'they were just sooo good!' after the 20thousandth time... she started to respond with 'I know, I was there too...' ;). *sighs happily* I also got to try bison pastrami that night, which is delicious btw, before heading off back to T.O in the morning so I could make it to circus on time.
After that it was a week to sort my self out before heading back to the grind of writing. At that point Devon had moved out (I miss you!), So I fell into my lovely writing, dance, work, writing rhythym and managed to get a great deal done before moving to my parents floor on the last weekend in May. The last weekend in May also happened to be the circus student show (which I was not in, but did get to see), Brokeh. It was fantastic! John's rope act was wonderful despite my having seen it repeatedly by that point (any time he started to practice I'd stop whatever I was doing and watch no matter what position I was in). Libby and Mary Margaret's hoop act was also lovely, but I think the kids my have stolen the show! there was a triple trapeze act and one with three on separate trapezes. The best though were five young girls on the mobile together which was just incredible. So in synch and visually stunning!!!
And that brings us up to now. Gotta run, have tickets to see Alice with ma tonight and don't wanna miss the talk! More on that later I am sure!
Sunday was a bit more of a relaxed day (as is fitting for mother's day - though in our case ma took advantage of our lazy morning to get work done *shakes head*). Went out for a bit of a wander to see more of the city - did you know that Calgary has foot placings on their air vents so that you don't get your heels stuck?? Such a good idea! They look like these jumbo massive foot prints :D - Before heading off to the Saddle Dome to catch the Stars on Ice tour. Omg, it was soooo good. Kurt Browning was there (of course!), Jeffery Buttle (He's so adorable - definitely the next Kurt Browning ;) ), Shawn Sawyer (and his inimitable standing centre splits), Sasha Cohen, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier (they were so in synch! It's so hard to believe they are no longer a couple), Joannie Rochette, Evan Lysachek, Kyoko Ina and last, but not least, Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir!!!! We got the tickets not knowing they were going to be there (worlds were the week before after all) and then found out they'd joined the tour the show before. Sooo happy I got to see them live!!! Scott looked a little worn but all in all they were just breathtakingly amazingly ... there are just no words, they were so good!!! They did a slightly altered version of their long program from worlds and another of their gala piece and let me tell you, if they'd skated like that the week before they might have beat Davis & White even with it having been their first comp this season. <3<3<3! I just love them all so much!!! and the group piece was a bunch of Jive numbers! Never been happier!! (How is Tessa such a phenomenal dancer??? I mean I'm glad she stuck with skating but the dance world is missing out! and Scott! *shakes head*). And Sasha, Kurt and David also did this wonderful clowning piece with a balloon. Love. Needless to say, I was on cloud nine for the rest of the day (week) and still am whenever I think about it :). My mom may have gotten slightly sick of hearing me repeat 'they were just sooo good!' after the 20thousandth time... she started to respond with 'I know, I was there too...' ;). *sighs happily* I also got to try bison pastrami that night, which is delicious btw, before heading off back to T.O in the morning so I could make it to circus on time.
After that it was a week to sort my self out before heading back to the grind of writing. At that point Devon had moved out (I miss you!), So I fell into my lovely writing, dance, work, writing rhythym and managed to get a great deal done before moving to my parents floor on the last weekend in May. The last weekend in May also happened to be the circus student show (which I was not in, but did get to see), Brokeh. It was fantastic! John's rope act was wonderful despite my having seen it repeatedly by that point (any time he started to practice I'd stop whatever I was doing and watch no matter what position I was in). Libby and Mary Margaret's hoop act was also lovely, but I think the kids my have stolen the show! there was a triple trapeze act and one with three on separate trapezes. The best though were five young girls on the mobile together which was just incredible. So in synch and visually stunning!!!
And that brings us up to now. Gotta run, have tickets to see Alice with ma tonight and don't wanna miss the talk! More on that later I am sure!
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