Penelope Meets Will: Dead and Alive

Last Friday night I picked up Miss Crankypants at daycare. I'm not sure when she had replaced Penelope, but we couldn't do anything right that evening. So with just a half hour before her bedtime, I pulled my ace and said "Do you want to go to the park?" The park is about 2 blocks away so not a long walk when I can entice her to sit in the stroller; however, it is a very long walk when she wants to walk. I really think she knows antish along with spanish and english because she has to speak to every ant we see.

Anyways, 20 mins later we arrived at the park and to my amazement there were about 100 people sitting on the hill. Now we go to this park at least 3 times a week so you'd think I would have seen signs for an event. I asked someone who was attending, and she said that A Midsummer Night's Dream would be starting at 7:30. I was giddy! My absolute favorite Shakespeare play right in my own neighborhood park? It was something I had always dreamed of seeing in Central Park. Now this obviously didn't have big stars, but it also didn't have 3 hour lines either. The beginning started with a percussion/guitar performance with about 30 dancers. It was like a mix of ren fair, woodland urchins, and african dance. Penelope loved it! We only stayed for about 15 minutes of the first act since Penelope was yelling "Bravo" "Yay" and clapping. Although, she got some giggles from others around us, I didn't want to disturb the audience. At home I googled and found that a local theater group called Upright Egg had been performing it every weekend for a month at Matthew's Park. Not a sign to be seen though. I wonder how everyone found out about it. Hopefully, they will continue it next year.

Then Penelope got to hang out with my cousin Will from Kansas. He was actually road tripping from South Dakota. Within 30 seconds of meeting Will, she was giving him high fives. Chris enjoyed having someone to play X-box with him and discuss his whisky collection.