The Jones Girls

A few months ago I got the girls the Lion King 2 video.    My friend Corrie called me and said the theatrical show Lion King was having a limited engagement at the Costa Mesa Performing Arts for a short couple of weeks in June.   She asked if Savannah and I would like to join her and her girls.

So I had Savannah go on You Tube and watch the theatrical performance and she was mesmerized with excitement and amazement.   I asked her if she would like to go see it and she said Yes Mommy!!  I was so excited, this will be here very first theatrical performance.

So today at 3:30pm, Corrie picked us up and we went to dinner at Red Lobster.    It was a nice dinner and the girls enjoyed visiting the live lobsters in the aquariums.   

At 5:30pm (the show started at 6:30pm and we wanted plenty of time to get there) we packed up in the car and I reached in my purse for the tickets so we could “GPS” directions.   NO TICKETS were in my purse!  I distinctly remember putting them in my purse before we left the house.  But then I do remember Google directions to get to Costa Mesa Performing Arts…does this mean I LEFT THE TICKETS AT HOME…which will put us almost 45 minutes late!!

I call Cliff and frantically tell him I can’t find the tickets.  He goes through my desk…no tickets!!  EEEK!!  Where are they?  I am so panicked, I am going to through up the expensive lobster dinner that I just ate.  

I run into the restaurant…perhaps the tickets fell out of my purse and landed on the floor under that table?   So I run to the table.  It is sparkling clean and no sigh of the tickets.    NO dice…OMG!!

I quickly seek out our server and have him check with the bus boy to find out if he had seen our tickets when he cleaned our table.  The manager came out and handed me a folded up wad of paper that had been pulled out of the trash.    The tickets were in my hand….granted, they were in the trash, but I had the tickets – WHEW!!   Thank you Precious Lord – and I mean I really prayed and thanked him!!!

So this put us behind only 7 minutes.    Our drive was smooth as well as our parking.  We got to our seats.

Savannah was amazed at how grand the seating was in the theatre.  We had balcony seats with a fantastic view.    The curtains went up and the show began.   The Baby Lion King scene immediately began the performance.  The symphony was excellent the dancers were electrifying to watch.  The costumes were mezmerizing and ingenious!!

We had a 1/2 hour intermission.    It was about a 3 hour performance.  Savannah was getting antzy about 3/4 of the way through..not too bad for a 6 year old watching her first performance being that long!!

We left and I got a little dizzy.   We had to go up and down stairs and then go around and down for many, many flights.   The walls were full of mirrors.  It was very disorienting for me.  At last we reached the bottom-whew!!

We waited in a long line to get the girls a little keepsake present.  The line was obnoxiously long.   We weren’t  about to wait in this cattle call!

So we paced to the exit and we lucked out – there was a guy selling Lion King stuffed memorabilia.   Savannah wanted what she called “The Pig”.  So I got her that.

We got home at about 10:30pm.