The Sad Thing About Being Sick

......is that Jena had to miss some fun things.  As luck would have it, last week we had events planned on Thursday and Friday evening.

Thursday we were going to the BYU women's basketball team and getting to go into the locker room before the game and meet some players.  One of our missionaries knows the coach personally and he gave us some great tickets for the night.  Fortunately, the missionary found others to go with him and the coach arranged for tickets for the game on Saturday, the 19th for us to go.  The coach will let us know if they can have guests in the locker room that day as it gets closer.

Friday, we had the 4th of the 4th events of my Christmas gift for Jena and Gary-- "Bravo Broadway" with the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall.  I have to say that Gary was a bit too "happy" to offer to stay home with Jena on Friday and let me go to the symphony with two sister missionaries from our zone.  However, they really missed out!  It was a super fun night and I know Jena and even Gary would have loved it.  The focus was on Rogers and Hammerstein and included music from The King and I, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Oklahoma, and others.

Rogers and Hammerstein (or maybe it is the reverse.)

They had the following guest performers:  Jerry Steichen as conductor and vocalists- William Michals, Hugh Panaro, and Scarlett Strallen.  All three are major Broadway stars and performed in many many famous shows over the years.  Scarlett Strallen is from Great Britain and her voice and accent sound so close to Julie Andrews.  It was amazing to listen to her and all of them.  The Utah Opera Choir also sung backup.  Everything was amazing!  If you love American musicals, you would have loved this show!

And Sister Shirley Cox and Sister Marianne Jones were delightful companions for the night.  We met at the Church History Library and walked to City Creek to Café Rio for dinner and then walked to Abravanel Hall, and then walked home (me) or to their cars.

A great night!

But I guess I need to think of another #4 activity for their Christmas Gift 2021!