Butterflies have Healing Powers

Hi Friends!
Northglenn, Colorado.

Denver

This was definitely a week for Loretta and I. For my fellow readers, I will not go into detail about what happend with us because it is in the past and I would like to move on from that. I did feel that it would be almost unjust to not mention it since this is a documentary of my life on the road. We are getting along much better then we were in Northglenn and that is all that matters. Life on the road can be tough and our week in Northglenn was just that for our partner relationship. We did learn a lot about each other and hopefully with time it will keep getting better.

One thing that I love is when I get mail on the road. I got two packages during our week in Northglenn. One from Kelly Combs which was a late Christmas gift for Loretta and I. She specifically got me "squid fingers'' from where we were in Seattle together. THANKS SQUID FRIEND! The other package was from my Dad. It contained some very important items: my cowgirl boots and my Music Man T-shirt from college. :)

I would also like to release a statement to the Bank of America Company....
WHERE THE FLIP ARE YOU?!?!?! I have searched high and low for you and I have T-shirt money I need to deposit and I CAN'T!!!!! UGHHHH!
-I feel better. :)

On a positive note, once again the kids were awesome this week! They seriously made my week. I had soooo much fun at rehearsals and they were all super talented and cool. We nomintaed like 20 kids for the MCT camps. These kids really had a lot of fun with their characters and listened to our directions better than most casts. I have never heard the audience laugh at the Knight's lines like they did for these kids. Phenom! Oh and this was fun I almost had to play Lady of the Lake. Thankfully the girl's parents let her do the show at the last second. I was ready though.... HA!

Also I would just like to say that I ADORE working with the Minis. The Minis is a smaller version of the Knights of the Round table and King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, Taliesin, and Raven. They're smaller because they're "off in the distance". Ehhh? GET IT! Anyways I was teaching the dragon dance and there is one part where they huddle around the dragon and "whisper" to him. Normally they say things like: "Whats wrong Dragon?" and "Do you have a toothache?". Pretty innocent right? Well this week we had twin boys and IF I was allowed to have favorites, they would've been mine. One always wore a fedora and the twins asked questions like: "Dragon are you drunk?" and "Did you drink too much last night?"
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I have NO CLUE where that came from but I have never laughed so hard!!!!!!!! Ohhhhh woooo....
Kids. :)

After our final show, we packed up the truck, said a few "Goodbyes" and headed back to our hotel rooms. When we got to our rooms, Loretta and I both found a box of fruit dipped in chocolate from the Northglenn Recreational Center who brought us in for the week. I love chocolate covered strawberries especially if they're FREE! On Sunday, Loretta and I had to drive to our homestay which was literally only 15 minutes away. We actually couldn't get there until after 6 because they were at a volleyball tournament.

Sooo to find something to do we went to Panera Bread and to the Butterfly Pavalion. Panera and Butterflies seem to always make everything better. The Butterfly Pavalion was actually pretty cool It sounds kinda cheesy but I loved it. We wandered around and saw all kinds of gross bugs, I held a tarantula, and witnessed the release of the newborn butterflies (Insert Squeal). After a good day we finally headed towards our homestay's house. It was HUGE! I could tell after meeting the family that our week in Arvada was going to be a lot of fun. :)

-Jen