Phantom

What an evening!

After many hours/weeks of sorting through stuff in the squalid house of our deceased friend, Ken took pity on me and treated me and our daughter (who broke her foot a couple weeks ago) to an evening at the opera---a haunted opera.

Yep, on Thursday evening, we went to the Keller auditorium in Portland and saw “Phantom of the Opera.” It was fantastic!! Our daughter was thrilled to be able to get out and see this show. She was kinda bummed about her foot, and needed a break from "life." We sat 5 rows back from the stage and were just off the aisle next to the center; we could see everything perfectly without having to use binoculars.

The show literally started off with a BANG when the “haunted” chandelier started shaking, glowing, flying across the stage, and finally coming to a rest above the audience. Throughout the performance there were strobe lights, gunfire, pyrotechnics, and smoke effects being used to enhance the fantastic acting and singing. Need I say this, but we were all mesmerized throughout the 2 1/2 hour performance. It went so fast that we did not realize how much time had passed. It truly was a grand evening!!!

Now, back to reality!!

Yesterday, Sept. 5, we took our boat motor and a box of needed fishing accessories to the Portland Airport and shipped them to Yakutat so they would be there when we arrive on Tuesday. We also did some geocaching on the way to and on the way back from Portland. Can you believe we found 23 caches and still got all that stuff shipped? We didn’t even leave the house until mid-morning because Ken had some “executor” business phone calls to finalize before the weekend. And, we were home before the dinner hour!!

Now that the box and motor are shipped, we will finish up packing our “main” bags, then on Monday, drive to Seattle where we spend the night. Our flight to Yakutat is early Tuesday morning, so it is much easier to spend the night near SeaTac and leave the Jeep in the hotel’s “park and fly” lot for the time we are gone.