food and moths

So last time I wrote we were getting ready to change over to I Hate Hamlet, and now we're in the middle of Godspell, and getting ready for Evita. It's crazy. I'm not going to go into details about changeovers and such just now, but I wanted to post some from pics from a few days ago (although it seems like weeks now). A hotel down the street from the theatre (not that anything in this town is not down the street from the theatre) invited the entire company to a free lunch the other day.

Part of the lounge at the Inn.

Fancy table settings.

The view from our table.

The menu from our lunch, in case you're wondering. If you do read it, notice that they use the word "duet". I got so excited when I read that!! On Top Chef they are constantly making duets and trios and they always sound so yummy.

Finishing off desert.

I continue my love of taking pictures of my food. This was the salad, obviously.

Main course.

And desert.

And after dinner, we took a very brief break before going back to work and ran down to the lake.

I couldn't really get a good picture of it, but if you notice that yellow butterfly, there were literally dozens of those flying around. I grabbed a net and tried to catch one but couldn't.

I have never seen anyone kyaking in any of the lakes around here, but there are 2 kayak shops and little kayak....stands, like this one, everywhere.

That white house is the inn.

This is actually from changeover to Hamlet, but I hadn't posted it yet. There are moths everywhere here! And they're so big and pretty! One day there was an invasion of big black ones all over the side of the theatre. They must have been migrating or something because it was insane! I wish I could have gotten a picture of that.

Hot!!

It finally got hot!
Just in time for changeover in an un-air conditioned theatre.
However, I'm very excited about this change in the weather. It finally feels like summer, not Nov.
Except, now our fave hangout spot, the roof, is too hot to go up on for more than like 15 mins. With a pile of towels. It is still perfect for stargazing though. And tonight there was some wicked lighting in the distance. Awesome.
Ok, gotta get some rest for changeover. I'm always so nervous because if anything is going to go wrong, it's most likely going to happen on the first one when you don't know what you're doing yet.

Road signs, vermont, ect.

Ok! So I've been very busy lately and I'm very tired, so I'm just going to do a quick post on some of the happenings from the last week.
Ummm, not to get into boring details about work, but the light board broke. So we had to take it in to get repaired. The nearest repair shop was in Massachusetts. So me and Jaqci set off on our way.

Starting off the day with Dunkin Doughnuts. At 5:30 am.

We make it to Massachusetts!!

They hyped up this scenic area for a good couple of miles. So I got my camera all ready.

And this is it? Seriously? The entire drive up till now was prettier. This is the least scenic view yet. You can't see it in this picture but this overlooks a water tower. This is the first sign that Massachusetts is just going to annoy me.

To keep ourselves amused we took pictures of funny signs. Well, funny if you are trapped in a car with nothing else to do. Also, it's hard to take pictures from a moving car. I missed the "Low Flying Planes" signs four times! This sign I just liked that the symbol of the Mass Pike is a pilgrim hat. It's everywhere.

Housatonic sounds like it should be a made up word in a Fergie song.
We actually stopped in this town to eat lunch and I looked for postcards because I really wanted one that said "Welcome to Blandsford!" "Greetings from Blandsford!" "Blandsford: Thinking of you!" They only had Boston ones. They are missing out. We found this while looking for food while our board was in the shop, so of course we drove down it.

And there was a lake!! A really pretty lake! These pictures really don't do justice to how pretty this entire trip was.

The only town in the tri-state area that does light board repairs.

Jaqci

Me

For the way back, here's a quick compare and contrast.

Scenic:

Not Scenic

ScenicNot Scenic

Right.
They couldn't fix our board. It had to be shipped to the factory for repairs. So in the mean time, we just swing by Vermont to pick up the old board from a theatre there to use untill we get ours back.

This is the closest I've been to a Target since I left.

This is where I fall in love with Vermont. Seriously, I love it!! New Hampshire is pretty, but everything here is kinda trying to be quaint and classy. Vermont is even prettier and it's so very tacky. Another sign picture I wish I'd gotten was for a restaurant called "Chicken and Ribs" and it's slogan was "The 9th wonder of the world". Fabulous!
Anyway, to rest my case, here is where we stopped for a quick bathroom break:

Basketville!! For all your wicker needs (a sign really said that)! And if you're not too distracted by that sign, notice the great old-timey town behind it.

And Basketville did not disapoint.

That's a bike made out of wicker in the corner.

Oh man, I just loved Vermont. Every town we drove thru was just as great. I wish we weren't on a time crunch. And it was so pretty!

They put up Canadian flags!

This is at a gas station we stopped at.

So at the conclusion of our day, and total driving time of 10 hours, here's the loner board that I am using.

So, I just want to say one last boring work thing, about this board. I'm one of the few people my age who knows how to use an old manual light board, and I know how to use the current boards. This however is a problem to me. This is my board, but the old operation system. And unlike computers, board operating systems don't come out very often. The one people mostly use today came out in 1993. So this is old. But fancy old. At the time when it was bought I'm sure it was more than top of the line, it was groundbreaking. Basically, I have no idea how to use it. And I've been trying to figure it out. It's actually the step above the board we sent in to get fixed, just much older.
So if anyone knows how to delete cues on this board, let me know!

I don't know if that price tag is real or not, but it made me laugh.

Check out that awesome 80s font.

Dartmouth

The other day we all went up to Dartmouth to see our artistic director play in a band there. I alway like getting to go place around here, since they're always new to me. It was a really pretty ride up during sunset, and I got to see Dartmouth, which struck me as funny at how stereotypicaly New England it seemed. But it was very nice. I also got a picture of me with a moose head, which is as close as I've come to seeing a moose, despite all the "Moose Crossing" signs everywhere.


Also, driving up there we got very lost for awhile because they don't like to put up street signs. No really. It's the weirdest most annoying thing ever. They also like to just make up traffic laws. When we were asking the people around here about it they were just like "No one needs the signs, everyone is from around here." And it's kinda true. People ask me where I'm from a lot just because they don't recognize me. Apparently not a lot of people some to New England.