Week in Review - and Mean Girls

 Violet has taken an Advanced Placement art class this year, and on Wednesday, she turned in her portfolio for grading. To celebrate, we shared a steak sandwich at RJB Cafe for lunch after school.

On Thursday morning, Tiffany and I took a walk and climbed the Stevenson Ranch stairs. This is a long outdoor staircase, installed just for exercise, and this is the view from the top. 

My calves were sore for days!

Also Thursday, Cora's Shakespeare classmates all performed monologues from Hamlet. After, the students voted on their favorite, and Cora won the most votes again.

Stace and I went to the garden center on Wednesday and then stopped at Maginn's for happy hour, and dinner. The girls were busy at the final dress rehearsal for Mean Girls.

We then went home and spent the rest of the evening researching RV rentals for a trip we're hoping to take in June to a national park in Nevada.

And on Thursday, Mean Girls began! Cora was stage managing, and Violet was the stagehand. Here, they are getting the microphones ready for the actors following the opening night show. 

I helped Thursday and Saturday by running the box office - this was the most well attended show in the school's history, with over 250 attendees on Thursday and 300 on Friday night!

 

These are the notes Cora created for the actors and crew, saying what needed to move, when, and what the cues were. She spent hours on it, and is such a hard worker.

After the closing show Saturday, we all stayed an extra hour to quickly break down the set and get it cleared from the stage. It was a lot of work and it was late, but this meant the director didn't need to come in on Sunday/Mother's Day.