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Opening Night of Annie in Boston

With Eva at Annie in Boston
Photo-A-Day #4411

We received a family four-pack of tickets for free to see Annie on Opening night in Boston at the Wang Theater. Opinions are our own.

Going into Boston to see a show is always a special event with the family. We don’t do it that often but when we do we make an evening out of it. We headed up right after school and luckily the traffic wasn’t terrible. We got to Chinatown in plenty of time so we went over to Genki Ya for dinner. Eva loves this place because she can order sushi. We usually get Andrew a fried breast of chicken because he isn’t a fan of sushi but that changed on this trip. Andrew had his first sushi (Crazy Roll) and didn’t like it and then gobbled up his second sushi (tempura shrimp roll) and loved it!

After dinner we walked over to the theater and met up with my friend Joselin Mane. He is the man behind Boston TweetUp and has been a friend since the first MegaTweetUp back in 2009. He’s a social media star who attends 2 or 3 events daily. If you want to know where to go in Boston, he’s your guy!

We received excellent seats for the play and both kids settled right in to enjoy it. Eva, who has been doing a weekly theater program and has been in theater since she was five, was super excited for the play. She thoroughly enjoyed seeing it. The music and the dancing was fun. She got many of the jokes, too. Some we both missed because, let’s face it something that was funny in 1933 sometimes doesn’t quite translate. But much of it still holds up well. Andrew made it though most of the first act and then fell asleep, hard, on Allison. He slept through the end of the show, while I carried him to the car and all the way home. What a life.

In all, Annie is a great family performance that is worth seeing. The performances were well done and the girl who performed as Annie was fantastic.

If you are looking for tickets to the show you can go to www.anniethemusical.com and get tickets for shows from May 9 – 21st. You can also follow along on social media with @ANNIEonTour on twitter and www.facebook.com/AnnieTheMusical. More about the play below. Continue reading Opening Night of Annie in Boston →

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He Earned His Orange Belt

Belt Graduation
Photo-A-Day #4372

Today was Andrew’s graduation to the orange belt in Karate. He’s been taking Karate since August. This was his first big graduation. The last graduation was held at the karate studio and was a smaller event. Today there were many more kids and families at the graduation ceremony. There were demonstrations from the higher ranking kids and what they could do was pretty incredible.

In this ceremony Allison did the parent part. I like how they do this. One parent sits with the child and gives them their belt. The child gives the parent a small ribbon the color of their new rank in a symbol that earning the rank requires a team and not just a single child. After the child receives a rank or stripe or anything new they go to their parents and give them hugs and thank them for helping them with their achievement.

With Mom

Andrew is now going to be one of the highest ranking kids in the group of white, yellow and orange belts. Sensei took him aside the other day and told him that he will be moving up and when he does he will have to be a leader and an example to the younger kids. I think that this is going to be really good for him.

Tonight we were having dinner, Andrew and Eva had been watching Go Noodle during the day and they learned about beatboxing. Because of that we had some silly moments and I was able to pull an April Fool’s joke on Eva. I talk about it in today’s video.