We decided to take advantage of Jo actually being in town for the entire weekend and headed over to Madison to check up on our homestead there. We hadn't been able to make it to Madison for almost six weeks and we were happy to see everything still standing, no water dripping, and our puzzle still waiting for a few more pieces to be inserted. After dropping everything off we headed out for dinner at a local brew pub to enjoy a burger and fish fry (we shared). My brandy old fashioned and Jo's cosmo hit the spot although we had seats near the door and we both felt cold for the rest of the night. We did try to ward off the cold with a brisk walk down State Street on a search for a meaningful dessert which we found with a hot peanut butter/chocolate chip cookie from Insomnia Cookies.
We woke to a wonderfully warm day - at least for February in Wisconsin - and headed down State St. to get some breakfast and to buy some tickets to an evening show at the Overture Center (hence the title of this post). Afterwards we worked on a little on our condo renovation plans before walking over to the Vilas Zoo to meet Kathy for lunch and a tour of the zoo. The Madison Zoo is a great zoo for a town the size of Madison and with free admission certainly makes it a must see stop. That and I remain amazed at the incredible diversity of animals on this planet. We then spent the afternoon putting in a few more pieces of the afore mentioned puzzle before grabbing a porta salad at Paisans for dinner before the show.
So about the show, we thought we were going to see a play about a Russian folk tale that roughly follows the Cinderella story line - at least as far as two ugly stepsisters, a nice and lovely girl, a mean witch. It was titled "Baba Yaga" which I presume is the name of the folk tale. What we had failed to notice in our reading about the "play" is that is was actually the Russian folk tale as told through modern dance. We did enjoy the show, but mostly because it gave us time to muse about the different paths people take in life and what really excites them. For instance, modern dancers. But it was a good show with a lot of talented dancers (at least I thought they were, but what do I know about talent in relation to modern dancing) and it left us talking about it for the rest of the evening - so it must have been worth our time. But thank goodness for the narrator otherwise we wouldn't have had a clue what was going on.
We decided to take advantage of Jo actually being in town for the entire weekend and headed over to Madison to check up on our homestead there. We hadn't been able to make it to Madison for almost six weeks and we were happy to see everything still standing, no water dripping, and our puzzle still waiting for a few more pieces to be inserted. After dropping everything off we headed out for dinner at a local brew pub to enjoy a burger and fish fry (we shared). My brandy old fashioned and Jo's cosmo hit the spot although we had seats near the door and we both felt cold for the rest of the night. We did try to ward off the cold with a brisk walk down State Street on a search for a meaningful dessert which we found with a hot peanut butter/chocolate chip cookie from Insomnia Cookies.
We woke to a wonderfully warm day - at least for February in Wisconsin - and headed down State St. to get some breakfast and to buy some tickets to an evening show at the Overture Center (hence the title of this post). Afterwards we worked on a little on our condo renovation plans before walking over to the Vilas Zoo to meet Kathy for lunch and a tour of the zoo. The Madison Zoo is a great zoo for a town the size of Madison and with free admission certainly makes it a must see stop. That and I remain amazed at the incredible diversity of animals on this planet. We then spent the afternoon putting in a few more pieces of the afore mentioned puzzle before grabbing a porta salad at Paisans for dinner before the show.
So about the show, we thought we were going to see a play about a Russian folk tale that roughly follows the Cinderella story line - at least as far as two ugly stepsisters, a nice and lovely girl, a mean witch. It was titled "Baba Yaga" which I presume is the name of the folk tale. What we had failed to notice in our reading about the "play" is that is was actually the Russian folk tale as told through modern dance. We did enjoy the show, but mostly because it gave us time to muse about the different paths people take in life and what really excites them. For instance, modern dancers. But it was a good show with a lot of talented dancers (at least I thought they were, but what do I know about talent in relation to modern dancing) and it left us talking about it for the rest of the evening - so it must have been worth our time. But thank goodness for the narrator otherwise we wouldn't have had a clue what was going on.
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