quick ketchup...er catch up.

No I haven't abandoned the blogging world. I apologize to my four faithful followers that I haven't posted in a while. Two reasons....

A. Not a whole lot has changed in my life

2. My camera basically blows so I have no good pictures.

So let me catch you up.

THEN

• My best friend Aubri came to visit and we got into plenty of mischief as always...(pictures will come when she finally downloads them)


• I went on a girls day shopping spree to Park City on my brother-in-laws budget with my sisters and mom and cousin.


• Had Ry mans mission farewell on Sunday!
  
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• Still having way too much fun at my job that is touring through Utah with these two fools.

Spell it backwards its NAVEL.




• Choreographing "Guys and Dolls" for the Sugar Factory Playhouse. WOOT!


• Enjoying the nice spring days when they decide to pop in.



• Spending all the free time I can with this guy.



• and these guys.
  

SOON!

• Riley leaves for California on his MISH!


• Luke graduates from college. HOLLA!


• I am going to Disneyland/Vegas/St.George (hopefully)


• I leave for the summer to the glorious Jackson Hole, Wyoming for GREASE (I'm frenchy) and also to take over the position of manager at the restaurant.

I WILL TRY NOT TO TAKE A MONTH AND A HALF NEXT TIME>>>

HOME AGAIN.

It was a vacation well needed and I might even say well deserved. After all, I am a college graduate.

I spent the last two weeks of the tour in Georgia and Florida and you can imagine how thrilled I am about coming back to snow.

I have discovered that there are nice people all over the country...... and a couple not so nice ones.(These are some nice ones.)

I was a very good tourist.. I braved snow, cold, aching feet and even nearly wetting my pants just so that I could get to see all that there was to see in each location that we stopped at.

I ate more food then I ever thought I would in my entire life! including....rabbit, quail, kangaroo and alligator

And of course made lots and lots of memories..

And to answer the question you have all been waiting for? ........NO I didn't kill Allan. Even after two months of each other neither of us were strangled. ...........

.......I just left him in Alabama.

And I even got a couple days off to go visit my cutest cousin.

ALL SAID AND DONE....ITS GOOD TO BE HOME!

This is what happens when two girls are bored on their day off. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do, cause I get a kick out of myself.

13 states in 10 days.... the way a road trip oughta be.

Maine, Delaware, New York, Washington D.C, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut. Admittedly we just drove through a couple of these states on our way to Georgia. But we at least stopped for lunch or at a gift shop in each state.

MASSACHUSETTS

Yes we are back to MA again.... But we got to explore a different side of it this time. It was a dark and stormy night on Friday the 13th in Salem......No actually it was just a bit windy. But Salem was the perfect way to spend the superstitious day. The town was just as you would imagine. Lots of weird voodoo style shops, and cool historical sites, like the site where they think the witch hangings took place and monument and of course about twenty fortune tellers trying to get us to pay them money.....

Continuing on the road!.....

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Up to New Hampshire we went for one day. We have eaten so much clam chowder in New England......I mean LOTS. We found this little restaurant right on the port and ate mussels (ew) and more seafood. (yum) I have to admit, the seafood is much better out here.

MAINE

There is a time and a place for everything and Maine is the perfect place to eat Lobster for the first time. I was frightened, even terrified at times, but after I got used to my food having eyeballs, it actually tasted really good.

DELAWARE

I don't who thought up the idea for the place that we stay for the longest time, be the most boring state. I don't have much to say about Delaware except that it comes after Connecticut and before Florida in the alphabet.

PENNSYLVANIA

So instead of twiddling our thumbs in Delaware we hopped in the car and drove across the border to Philly! We visited lots of cool history stuff, liberty bell, the usual and also got to experience a real Philly cheese steak sandwich. Geno himself asked us if we were Mormon. I really think we may have a future convert.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Very cool place to hang out for sushi. I don't recommend driving through it with traffic and parallel parking a minivan.

SOUTH CAROLINA

10 hours of driving later.....we finally landed here for a nice southern style lunch. Never had hush puppies before this and have never been called ma'am so many times in my life.

GEORGIA!

I love Georgia. The people are real nice and the weather is even nicer. Of course I am comparing the weather to the 4 degree weather of New England, but a 55 degree day in Atlanta was awesome! We celebrated black history month by seeing the historical Martin Luther King Jr site, we also celebrated how caffeine blesses our lives by going through the coke museum and ended a typical day by being crowned royal lords and ladies of the Medieval realm. No Big Deal.

As for the other seven states they were all special and wonderful in their own unique way. Just not cool enough to make it on to my blog.

Florida is Next!!!

NYC

WHO KNEW?

Who knew.......

.......that Allan and Elise would be hand picked out of a crowd to be in the front row on the David Letterman show with guest star Martha Stewart.

........that we would hop on 5 or more subways until we would finally figure out where we were headed in Manhattan.

.......that hearing the horns honking during church from the street below you in NY is actually really cool.

....... that performing shows for the poorest schools can be the best kids and show ever!

.....and that performing a show for a rich private Jewish school would be the most outrageously misbehaved school. And that saying the word SEXY would be a bad idea. We then proceeded to get yelled at by the Rabbi......yeah.

......Who knew that driving around Newark, NJ (one of the highest crime rates in the US) after dark, looking for an ice cream shop, would be a very terrifying experience. OK. We probably should have known that one.

.......that such a thing as a frozen hot chocolate even existed!? Serendipity.

......that my favorite childhood puppets would turn out to be so very entertaining....And a little bit racist. (Avenue Q)

....that Lizzie's huge signals that we need to wrap up the show NOW, would mean that Elise would try to segue to the end while Allan would stop and blankly stare at her for a long five seconds.....finally saying "uh.....What?"

.....And lastly, Who knew that it would take a trip across the country for Allan to finally find the woman of his dreams.

HIGH FIVE!!!!

First week on our own

So we are officially done with rehearsal and we have left Northampton (The proud lesbian capitol of the world). We are now touring and staying at each city for only a day or two. Only a week of performances so far and yet some interesting things have occured.

*Allan lost his voice yesterday and was squeaking for the whole afternoon.

*The moment when Elise completely forgot her line and just stood there awkwardly with a look of sheer terror in her eyes, splurting out bits of lines that she can remember from any part of the show. At that moment Allan decides to walk off the stage. We recovered and of course the line all came back to her in the middle of Allans next line.... She yelled it out suddenly. Smooth as sandpaper..

*Allan having yogurt all over his face and Elise and Lizzie end up looking like they have Turrets by trying to signal him to wipe it off.

*We got to perform at Hogwarts. I am pretty sure Harry will be eating less chocolate frogs and jelly slugs. ---->

*We got really excited about the free meal at Denny's for every one in America ad. Until we got there and there was a one hour wait. So we took this picture and found lunch somewhere else. Don't we look happy?

We now know what 2 degrees feels like. With wind.

*We stumbled upon a Candle Pin Bowling Lane (one of the few left in the world) and played a couple games. Its really hard! The pins are skinny and the balls are small. But we had the whole place to ourselves.

Ah we will miss the city of Northampton. And Remember. Give PEAS a chance.

Boston

I decided to start a blog mostly so every can keep updated on my tour along the East Coast and I won't have to retell all the stories to everyone....

So today concludes the first week of my adventure out here for the show "This is Your Life", a kids show for middle school students promoting healthy lifestyles. We (meaning myself, my brother Allan, and our stage manager Lizzie) have spent our first week in Northampton, a fun city about two hours out side of Boston. We have been working hard day and night rehearsing, trying to get things perfect for tech next week. And finding just enough time to play on the side.

Yesterday we took a short trip out to Boston. I WENT TO HARVARD. Yep. (hey, how many times will I be able to say that?) And then saw the historical sites of the North end of the city and even got to see a show. I won't bore you with all the details so here is a top 5 moments of the day.

5. Losing our way.....Among other things.

Our company was nice enough to provide us with quite an expensive GPS system for the car so we do not get lost in the crazy streets of the East Coast. Unfortunately, when left in a cold car for hours it becomes very temperamental and will stop working at the most inconvenient times. Luckily for us both Allan and I have GPS on our phones as well that work great. right?.....WRONG. Combine 3 GPS systems not cooperating, a flashing empty fuel tank and a very frustrated driver...you get 30 minutes or more of driving around in circles in Downtown Boston at 1 am. Best part of this story is that we later realized that we were following Allan's phone, and it was still set to "walking" mode. It would have taken us 2 days and 35 minutes to get home.

Among other things that were (almost) lost this trip:

Elise's Purse................ Left at Italian fast food joint

Elise's Phone................Car valet was nice enough to mention that one

Elise's Bag of Market Groceries................Left at the top of Bunker Hill monument. 300 stairs high. Lucky I was only about twenty down when I noticed

Elise's Head.........If it weren't attached.

4. NEW ENGLAND CLAM CHOWDER

We ate at the oldest restaurant in the country. Yep. Also had the best clam chowder. The first clam chowder that I have tasted that puts up a good fight to Moms homemade. Too bad we ate it so fast we really didn't really get to savor the flavor. ....Oh and the first restaurant to ever offer toothpicks. (Believe it!

3. The Weather......DUN DUN DUN

Normally, below freezing is not a time I would plan an out door tour of Boston. But since we didn't really have a choice on the matter we decided to not let the wind and cold dampen our spirits!!! The following conversation was a result.

Allan: Just close your eyes and imagine you are somewhere hot...like Hawaii.

Elise: Ok.......mmmm......hehe those silly Hawaiians are nibbling on my ears....
Wait a second that's not Hawaiians at all! That is my ears FALLING OFF!

2. John Harvards foot.

Legend has it that those who rub the foot of John Harvard's statue will receive good luck. Of course we wanted this! We even took the photo op.

Later we found out...

Rumor has it that Harvard Undergrads like to play a prank by peeing on the foot of the statue. We have been fooled by the genius workings of the Harvard Students. Blast!

1. Goat Head

We walked through the Saturday town market and found this.... He was even kind enough to pose for a picture. Isn't he cute. Looks like he even caressed Allans shoulder.