E's 8th birthday

We have been talking about E's upcoming birthday for at least 11 months. What we were going to do, see and wear. The big plan was to see The Little Mermaid and when I mentioned it to my friend Becky a couple months back she politely informed me that I was a dunce and that the Little Mermaid was no longer running. AHH! So we quickly came up with plan B. We would try and *win tickets to Wicked every day and night the week before her birthday and if that didn't work out then we would buy the nosebleed tickets on Sat night (her bday was on a Sun)

*side note on the Wicked lottery. Before every performance they have a lottery where they draw 12 names. Each person picked gets 2 front row tickets for $26.

Anyway, Monday we trekked cross town where Can was able to meet us on his way home from work. When we walk up I thought it looked promising as there were no people there. Yeah, who knew that actors needed a night off? Doh!

Tuesday Karley even rushed over in a cab to meet us there on time and dang nabbit. The show was at 7 instead of 8 so the lottery was an hour earlier!! AHH.

Wednesday we went for the matinee and the night one and the people who were in line behind us just happened to be in our ward and they won tickets....for the second time that week.

Thursday E was spastic and got punished so we didn't go and then on Friday I just plain old didn't want to go. I was sick of the freeeezing cold walks across town through touristville.

Saturday matinee no luck then on Saturday night since my family was coming for E's baptism I told them to be at 50th and 8th at 530 sharp so we could have more luck in getting someones name called. FINALLY they called Can's name. Man were we glad!

As you can tell :)

Best pic outta 5 :) Flash and this girl do NOT agree!

Front row seats for $26 each, not too shabby. It was so priceless to watch her reaction throughout, she was in heaven and still talks about it even now. Oh and we listen to the soundtrack all the time :)