Okay, my last post was a little short so I'll give you a "brief" rundown of my time in San Francisco so far.
We flew on Sunday the 21st. Okay flight although the movie was "Monster In Law". I would have called it "Monster Waste of Time". But I watched it to help pass the time. Got in and settled into my quite comfortable room although I had a massive water leak just outside my kitchen. Turned out my dishwasher had a leak out of the water pump. So they fixed that for me and vacuumed up all the water. All good.
The wonderful company managers at ACT took 9 of us grocery shopping to stock up our kitchens. It was hilarious. We had a thousand bags of groceries packed into the back of a pick up truck all labeled with our initials so we didn't mix them up.
That night we went out for a nice dinner and waited for the Vancouver gang to get in. They arrived around 10:30 and were going for dinner themselves as they weren't jetlagged. Me on the other hand, I was about to fall over. I forced myself to stay awake until midnight to try and get a normal night's sleep.
Day One in San Fran.
We signed up at the fabulous gym, had quick work out and then back to clean up before an afternoon on the town. First of all my girl Vic and I went to ...wait for it....The Designer Shoe Warehouse!!! Three floors of shoes people....THREE!! So I got a cute pair of sneaker type casual shoes for a steel. I'll try and post a picture of them at some point.
Then it was off to the Ferry Terminal Market. Lovely. Got a nice salmon filet for dinner with some super super yummy goat cheese and sourdough bread. Delicious!!!
The group fractured at this point and Sal and I wandered over to the touristy part of Fisherman's Warf. So much to see but at this point, my dogs were definitely barking. Especially considering the new ones were rubbing a little at the back. So we wandered around briefly and then headed back to the hotel for a nap.
On the way we took a trolley car back to our neighbourhood. So fun. It looks just like this. And the drivers are hysterical interacting with the tourist and all. Very cool.
Tuesday I got up early and wandered down to an outdoor vegetable market and picked up some freshies. Very great deals. Wandered back and then had to make an unexpected trip to the Doc as I seemed to develop an unfortunate UTI. Not pleasant. But he fixed me up with some fab antibiotics, didn't charge me for the visit, and now it's all good.
That night we had our first night on stage and that's been the jist of it. Rehearsals during the day with a run at night. Like I mentioned in my last post, we had our first preview audience last night and they LOVED the show. It was so good to hear reactions of the crowd again. Hartford really had me doubting the show and to hear these guys react in the way we've been used to reaffirmed that it wasn't so much the show but who we're playing too. I'll just say, the roar of the crowd was so overwhelming at the end of the show, we couldn't hear our curtain call music. How great is that?!
So we've got a show tonight, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. It's going to be a busy weekend but it looks like Monday (our day off) is going to be a group outing to for a bit of an impromptu wine tour. Should be fun. I'll let you know!
We flew on Sunday the 21st. Okay flight although the movie was "Monster In Law". I would have called it "Monster Waste of Time". But I watched it to help pass the time. Got in and settled into my quite comfortable room although I had a massive water leak just outside my kitchen. Turned out my dishwasher had a leak out of the water pump. So they fixed that for me and vacuumed up all the water. All good.
The wonderful company managers at ACT took 9 of us grocery shopping to stock up our kitchens. It was hilarious. We had a thousand bags of groceries packed into the back of a pick up truck all labeled with our initials so we didn't mix them up.
That night we went out for a nice dinner and waited for the Vancouver gang to get in. They arrived around 10:30 and were going for dinner themselves as they weren't jetlagged. Me on the other hand, I was about to fall over. I forced myself to stay awake until midnight to try and get a normal night's sleep.
Day One in San Fran.
We signed up at the fabulous gym, had quick work out and then back to clean up before an afternoon on the town. First of all my girl Vic and I went to ...wait for it....The Designer Shoe Warehouse!!! Three floors of shoes people....THREE!! So I got a cute pair of sneaker type casual shoes for a steel. I'll try and post a picture of them at some point.
Then it was off to the Ferry Terminal Market. Lovely. Got a nice salmon filet for dinner with some super super yummy goat cheese and sourdough bread. Delicious!!!
The group fractured at this point and Sal and I wandered over to the touristy part of Fisherman's Warf. So much to see but at this point, my dogs were definitely barking. Especially considering the new ones were rubbing a little at the back. So we wandered around briefly and then headed back to the hotel for a nap.
On the way we took a trolley car back to our neighbourhood. So fun. It looks just like this. And the drivers are hysterical interacting with the tourist and all. Very cool.
Tuesday I got up early and wandered down to an outdoor vegetable market and picked up some freshies. Very great deals. Wandered back and then had to make an unexpected trip to the Doc as I seemed to develop an unfortunate UTI. Not pleasant. But he fixed me up with some fab antibiotics, didn't charge me for the visit, and now it's all good.
That night we had our first night on stage and that's been the jist of it. Rehearsals during the day with a run at night. Like I mentioned in my last post, we had our first preview audience last night and they LOVED the show. It was so good to hear reactions of the crowd again. Hartford really had me doubting the show and to hear these guys react in the way we've been used to reaffirmed that it wasn't so much the show but who we're playing too. I'll just say, the roar of the crowd was so overwhelming at the end of the show, we couldn't hear our curtain call music. How great is that?!
So we've got a show tonight, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. It's going to be a busy weekend but it looks like Monday (our day off) is going to be a group outing to for a bit of an impromptu wine tour. Should be fun. I'll let you know!
2 comments:
DSW is the BEST! my favorite buy ever was from the clearance section--gold bcbg heels for $4.00. how can you not love that??
Holy shit, sounds amazing so far! How about the architecture? From what I've seen and heard of San Fran is that houses are super cute.
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