The King and I

Yesterday was an odd day. I woke up feeling tired and hung over. Now the strangest part is that I do not drink alcohol, ever. I can’t because of medications that I take and so I simply am very good. However, yesterday, I felt like I’d simply gone out the night before and really tied one on. Headache, sick stomach, exhausted, dizzy and the slightest hint of light hurt my eyes.
I made breakfast for Hubby and I and then announced I was taking the girls and going back to bed. I scooped up the dachshunds and off I went. I darkened the room, and found that this still wasn’t enough, so I got out the sleep blinders and crawled in. I slept for 2 hours!
Upon waking it was time to eat again. I made lunch and was starting to feel sufficiently worried that I was not doing well on this new medication. I was also supposed to go out in the evening with my neighbor to see “The King and I” at the local community theater and I was getting nervous that I was going to be too ill to go.
I just sort of did nothing for the afternoon. I somehow managed to blow 4 hours before I had to clean up and get ready for my evening.
I was determined to feel better and so I cleaned up, made myself some coffee and got ready for the evening.
We’d planned to go to a new place for dinner, but after I picked up my neighbor, we drove there, only to find the place “Closed on Sundays” which is crazy, in a summer tourist area.
So what to do, what to do? I know, I said.
I swung around my car and told the car, “You know where to go!”
And with that the car took off for Canoe.
Yes, folks. We went to Canoe. Which you know by now, is my new favorite place to eat. We had Mango, Cucumber Gazpacho Soup, which was fabulous! And then we both had Lobster Rolls for dinner. I had regular fries with mine and my neighbor had Sweet Potato fries with hers. Which were awesome!
I must mention here, that although they have a wonderful and extensive dessert menu, you never get to it because their dinner helpings are so generous and truly fill you up!
We arrived at the play with plenty of time before the show. So we mingled around the lobby, giving us a chance to look at the cast pictures. I was looking at the kids and I noticed a little girl who looked suspiciously like my doctor. Sure enough this is my GP‘s oldest daughter, who apparently has grease paint in her blood.
The play was good and brought back many memories for me. At 4 years old I was the youngest child in the cast of “The King and I” when our Community Theater did this on Cape Cod. I have a few memories of the event. Mostly of washing up after the play and rinsing the black hair dye out of my hair.
At the Intermission I saw my doctor and chatted with him. He told me that his daughter really loves the theater and that last year she played Gretel Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music“. Now this is spooky because when I was 8 years old I was Gretel in our Community Theater!
Of course I cried at the end of the play. I always do. Anyone who doesn’t, has no heart! But here I am in a public place, and all I could think of was that everyone would see and I would die. So I blinked back the tears and kept myself from sobbing and quite luckily found that it was pouring rain when we got outside. So all the water on my face was quickly explained.