kisses on your opening....

night. that is.

Last night's performance was magic. It was sold out - and it was a perfect audience to bring these characters to life with. Having never performed this play in front of an audience - it was very very interesting to see where people laughed and more importantly, where they did not. These six preview shows will help us mold the piece so that by the time we open officially on the 23rd? It'll be a well-oiled machine of a play. It just such a wonderful experience! I've never been part of an original play like this - and it is so totally different. You really have no idea what you have in your performance or in the play itself until you do it in front of people who are experiencing the material for the first time. My friend Bob came to the show last night and brought flowers (omg nice!) - and was standing talking to David when I came out from backstage. What's funny is neither of them had made the connection to who's who. So that was a very funny moment, when they realized they'd been talking to each other for a few minutes - and were the person I'd asked each of them to find. LOL. SO we wandered over to the wine bar at Hotel B Wine Bar (on Rose Street by Zuni) and shared plates of goat cheese and dates, and some absolutely wonderful Austrian bubbly. David and I came home around midnight and poured ourselves into bed... and well it was just a wonderful night. Now begins the journey of six weeks of shows - and well for today; spoiling David and reminding him how truly wonderful he is.

Yep. that kind of day....

Samuel Taylor Redwoods State Park - Marin County

Yep. that kind of day.... continued.....

So - I followed through on my Dave Only Day. It was wonderful - we had breakfast together then drove out of the fog north to The Marin County Building (photo right) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (his final commission) It was actually constructed posthumously - and opened in 1963 with final construction of the exhibit hall and hall of justice opening in 1976.

One of things I love about Dave is how varied and exciting his interests can be. I turned to him last night - and I said - 'so on the Dave Only Day? what should we do?' and without skipping a beat he said - "lets go take pictures of the building in San Rafael that Frank Lloyd Wright designed." Very cool.

( two more photos behind a cut )

Then he turns to me and says "okay - after we get you a cold beverage (i'm dry out in a heartbeat) where close would we take a walk in the woods?"

I knew just the place - and KateyDog, David and I were off to Samuel Taylor Redwoods State Park.

Which was just GORGEOUS :) The afternoon sun was filtering through the trees and we had a wonderful walk with Miss Kate - watching families play frisbee, watching a wedding that was taking place in the park (complete with a new agey trioo of flute, harp and pan flute playing the wedding march; and the crowd blowing "bubbles" into the air.)

David was having fun taking the pictures today - so all the pictures in this post - - he took. (a fact he's very happy about)

Miss Kate also got in on the love - and then snored all the way home in the car. (adorable!)


and then we came home and he said "my favorite meal as a boy was spaghetti" and voila - I whipped up a lovely marinara sauce (from the recipe kitchenbeard taught me - with the ricotta) and boiled up some fresh fettucine which I tossed in a little olive oil, basil and parmesan - then served the sauce over the top. We had a romantic dinner - and off to the show I went. (another fine outing on stage....)

Now I'm home - I've washed off my makeup - and David and I are going to take Kateydog out then it's powersnugglevelcrosleepovertime^tm.

oh and one more thing...

powerswoon!^tm