Bright and early at 7:30am, Kent went over to help clean the church. Our dear home teacher, Brother Glen Stubbs, died on Tuesday, and his funeral was today. They wanted to have the building cleaned before the funeral, so they had to start early. It was a good thing Kent went, for though they had plenty of people to help, the regular person in charge of cleaning was not there, so Kent spearheaded the efforts. He got home and then he and I returned to the church for the funeral.
We had planned to have a cousin Valentine party today, so we dropped the kids off at Guy and Mikayla's house so they could go play while we were at the funeral. Kent and I joined the party after the funeral. When we have these cousin parties, we generally play games, do a craft, have a treat. That was the plan, with the addition of exchanging valentines. When we arrived, lunch had been eaten (heart shaped pizza, fruit, salad), and that was all. The kids had been playing outside, just happy to be together, and the adults had been sitting around talking, happy to be together too. We did exchange valentines, and we frosted and put "frinkles" (per Donovan) on heart shaped sugar cookies, but that was all. It was enough. Everyone was very happy.
We left the party early to go see A Midsummer Night's Dream at BYU. It was a Theater For Young Audience production and included puppets for the four lovers and the mechanicals who put on the Pyramus and Thisbe play. I thought it was a darling production and I loved the puppets, but everyone spoke so fast, including Puck who was supposed to be giving us an idea of what was happening in the scene, that Brandt and Blythe understood about three words in the whole play. They liked it, there was plenty of action, but they didn't understand anything. I had given them a brief synopsis before it started, but everything moved so quickly, they were lost. A Midsummer's Night Dream does seem an appropriate play choice for Valentine's Day as it is all about love (and fairies and magic and transformation and plays).
This is Titania and Bottom, who was a puppet.
Oberon and Puck,
Titania and Bottom
The players and their puppets.
To make two of them women (Hermia and Helena), they put on funny wigs. The wigs came off several times, but they actors did a great job of working with it. The whole head of the puppet on the far right came off during one scene, but again, the actor just went with it. He held the puppet's hands up and make him feel around for his head while Puck (not a puppet) leapt to the front of the stage, scooped up the head and stuck it back on the body. The audience, laughed and laughed.
Here we are, very blurry, outside the theater.
It's not a great picture, but proof that we were there.
Even though we had just come from a party where we ate lots of sugar cookies with frinkles, we went for ice cream after the play. The Creamery on 9th was packed, with a huge line for ice cream, so we bought two cartons and came home to make milk shakes. After an interval wherein we once again became hungry, we decided to have our Valentine's dinner at Bangkok Grill, our favorite restaurant. It was very busy, but the food is always delicious and worth the little bit of extra time we might have had to wait. Happy Valentine's Day to us!
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