We had hoped to be at the YMCA by 7am but made it by 7.30am. Bill went into the chamber of horrors and I donned my swimsuit and went into the warm pool to do some water walking. I get tired of walking round and round the track in the chamber of horrors or walking on the treadmill and watching Dr. Oz and trying to read the captions (they are altogether too fast and I wonder if anyone else has trouble reading what is written). It was pretty funny to be the only one in the pool that early in the morning and the lifeguard stood watch over me the whole time. Like having your guardian angel right in your presence.
We came home and had breakfast, scripture reading and then we got ready for the day. It became late but we went to the Augusta Civic Center for the craft show there and saw some of the same people we saw at various other shows. We left there and drove to Skowhegan. there is a small ballet company called the Bossov Ballet (run by Mr. Andre Bossov) and they were performing the Nutcracker. His take on the story was a little different from the traditional ballet's that we have seen over the years. Many of the things that he did were quite innovative and effective and really added to the story. I was disappointed that there was no 'growing tree' but there were plenty of interesting mice - one was even remote controlled and buzzed around the stage. The part of the Sugarplum fairy was danced by the Queen Bee and a bunch of little Bees. These are the cutest little kids and they steal the show from the lead dancers. They entered the stage by sliding down a sliding board that came out of a tree. The mother Ginger dance was done by the queen bee and the little bees sliding down the board to the stage and doing their dance routine. It was quite cute.
Skowhegan is a 'two-part city" just like Augusta - it straddles the Kennebec river. There is also a dam at Skowhegan or perhaps it was a lock to allow ships to come up and down the river - I do not know because we were busy looking at the road signs to find the opera house and so I only got a glimpse of the water system that we crossed. The city of Skowhegan reminds me a lot of Johnstown. Bill found a parking spot right in front of the Catholic church. I wonder if the priest was excited to see someone park that early in front of the church - we parked there at about 2pm and mass was at 4pm. Just as we were leaving to come home, the people were pouring into the church for Saturday night Mass. The performance of the Nutcracker was videotaped ($27.95 plus shipping). We were standing in the foyer during intermission and this man came up to us and asked where we were laboring. We were wearing our name tags and it turns out that the one videographer of the show is a member of the church from Bangor and I am always surprised when people come up to us and start talking to us like we are long lost relatives - well we are in a way - and then I remember that I am wearing my name tag that says my name and the name of the Church.
It was a long day but a very good day and when we came home, the spider had nabbed about 5 very miniscule flies in its web and was busy eating them and repairing the web for another night of 'capturing the unfortunate bugs that are still around.' Perhaps the bugs are not all that bright to begin with - after all who would want to get in through the fly screen only to be trapped in a spider web? It lets me know that even though we have fly screen on the windows, there are little bugs that can get through even those small holes and invade our domain.
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