WWOOT for the Win!

WWOOT Day 3: 

   Tuesday was boring during the day, but that night's excursion made up for it! In the daytime, we slept in a bit and hung at home because i had a headache and didn't feel well. That morning, Mom had made us all a delicious family breakfast of eggs benedict! So good! So good! So good!
   Ma gave us all presents - Red Sox gear - to tell us where we were going that night. i was so excited! It was my first Sox game and my first pro baseball game. How i managed to play baseball and softball all my life and NOT make it to a game in 21 years is beyond me.
   The Sox beat the Colorado Rockies in an 8 - 3 game! AND we saw a home run that game. We were directly behind home plate and had a great view of the field.
   Like a true Bostonian would say, it was WICKED AWESOME!

WWOOT Day 4:

   On Wednesday of our Fun Week, we got pedicures - ALL of us!
   That night, we went out to a Spanish restaurant in Boston. We heard flamenco music while eating tapas and drinking cavas. It seemed everything was expensive for the quality and amount of food that we received. The paella was not very flavorful and at a high cost ($29 - $31), and while the tapas tasted good, there wasn't much to them. The tortilla espanola was creamy, but at $12 a slice, i think it was a bit outrageously priced. i was, however, excited to go to a tapas restaurant, and Mom gave me full reign to order for all of us whatever i thought was best!

   After dinner, we walked over to the SpeakEasy Theater for a performance that took us back to the late 50's and early 60's. With melodic harmonies and a full use of the space with crisp movement (without breaking the fourth wall), the musical Dogfight came to life in front of us. It was "nothing short of wonderful"! It made us laugh, cry, sometimes both at the same time! (Okay, i am a sap, and i cry at a lot of musicals, plays, movies - just stories in general. So, as you can imagine, i cried a good amount during this show.) As a lover of the soundtrack before setting foot in the theater, i really appreciated the voices of the guys in the show, especially Eddie and their vocal performances of the difficult numbers. The harmonies were seamless and smooth, and i felt like i could listen to them all day long.

   Unfortunately, we all felt the tension between Dad and Ma and Dad and Lea that night. Lea wasn't talking because she got yelled at by Dad on the way there because Ma got lost thanks to our GPS, Tim Tim. So, Ma was mad at Tim Tim and herself for getting us into Boston like an hour later than we planned, Dad was mad at Ma for getting lost and for not telling him where we were going because gosh forbid he has to follow someone else blindly (he knows Boston and the roadways better than Ma); Dad and Lea both get carsick when there is a lot of traffic, so they were both probably nauseous; i can't deal with throwing up so i was reading my book in the back trying not to worry about them getting sick; and Dad got mad at Lea when she tried to set up Ma's phone GPS (Google Maps for iPhones or something) instead of Tim Tim.
   Fun family car ride.
   The rest of the night, Lea didn't talk, Ma was aggravated that Lea didn't have more of a reaction to Dogfight, and Dad was so tight he looked like he might turn to stone. I was just stuck in the middle.

   Unsurprisingly, Ma told us at the end of the night that she was cancelling the next day of WWOOT. i think we all breathed a sigh of relief (quietly, of course, so Ma wouldn't know). She didn't think it was the best idea to have us all drive 2 hours somewhere starting at 8 a.m. the next morning. Shocker.
i was . . . relieved.