I had no good excuse to avoid running. Last night the rain was pounding down and I was secure in thinking that it would be too miserable to go for a plod.
Surprise!
It was sunny!
Fine….I’ll do forward-fall.
It wasn’t 5km, but it also wasn’t zero km. Sometimes you have to accept that it’s not going to be what it should be. Later int eh afternoon we went for a fabulous walk down at Ambleside; It was spectacular on the waterfront. It was also shocking to look up at the mountains and see all that green and absolutely no snow. December 26th, and sunny and warm at 10oC…it’s just all wrong, the golf courses are open, the ski hills aren’t.
A run over to Gastown to pick up one Boxing Day purchase, a new pair of Fluevog’s, before a snack at the pub and a drive back downtown for an evening of amazing entertainment at Kooza.
We were trying to identify the Cirque du Soleil shows we’ve seen, and when we saw them.
I think Quidam was the first, around 2005.
Next up was “O”, in Vegas in 2007; that one was a surprise birthday gift from Kirk to me.
We followed that in 2008 with Corteo, Mom might have joined us at that show (?).
In 2010 we went to Kooza and that one I know we took Mom to.
In 2011 we went to Cavalia; Kirk had bought me tickets as an early birthday gift.
While I was digging through photos I came across that we saw Amaluna in 2012. I honestly couldn’t remember seeing it and when I read the post I’d written I now understand why. I’d purchased tickets in April of 2012 for a December 4th performance. But Mom died on November 21st. I’m surprised we went, but when I read the post I saw that I’d decided to attend as a distraction. But I really have zero memory of it….probably because my brain was in a state of shock and grief.
And then we had quite a gap before seeing another show. In late 2019 we saw Luzia.
Another gap, because, well…COVID, and we found our way back to Le Grand Chapateau for a second visit to Kooza, 13 years after seeing it the first time. How was it that long ago! This time the tickets were a gift from me to Kirk, and the seats were amazing. Second row, just a few seats off dead centre. As always, it was an spectacular show, and it was stunning to be almost directly below some of the crazy aerobatics. The contortionists were mind blowing, the clowns brought laughter, the spinning circles brought gasps because the performers were so daring.
But the most shocking thing?
Popcorn for $12! It’s hard to pay $14 for a beer knowing that the beer is $6 in the store…..but how do people buy a smallish bag of popped corn, probably a nickels Wirth, and pay $12 for it?
Can’t really complain about that kind of a day on the 26th day of December.