(top) Rehearsal for "The Good Doctor". Zak, Mackey, Jessica, Joy, & Ryan.
(bottom) The Martins in Fort Worth at the Grey/Rose wedding. Kim, Amy, Ryan, ML, Kari, Aidan, Jason, & Regan.
It has certainly been a busy September. My cousin's son, Trevor, just married last Saturday. We drove up there Friday after Kim got off of work, to the rehearsal dinner. Jason and family left early Friday and were already in Ft. Worth as we were unfortunately delayed by Houston traffic getting out of town. Even though Kim and I were very late to the rehearsal dinner, so was the wedding party. So, we didn't miss a thing.
Then, on Saturday Kim and I joined Jason, Kari and the kids at the Ft. Worth Zoo. It was so much fun watching how excited Aidan would get at seeing the animals. A four year old is the perfect age for the zoo. He was very enthralled by it all. However, our little venture to the zoo made us all rush around to make it to the 5:00 wedding. Also, Ryan and Amy were speeding their way from Baytown to make it on time to the wedding.
Everyone made it to the ceremony in time. The wedding was beautiful. Courtney was a gorgeous bride and Trevor just beamed as he watched her come down the aisle. I was so glad that we could be there to celebrate this special day in our family. Trevor and Ryan are the same age with Trevor being 2 months older. It sure is weird to think that our youngest children are now married.
The reception was just a blast. Courtney's family spared no expense and threw a most exceptional party. However, I don't think that anyone in that whole place including the bride and groom had as much fun as our Aidan. He met the flower girl, Ashley, who is 2 years older than him. They danced and played the whole evening. By the time Aidan was going home, he was exhausted from dancing so hard at the wedding.
Sunday morning Kim and I had to rush back to Baytown. We are in our last week of rehearsals for the Baytown Little Theater's production of "The Good Doctor". It opens this Friday, September 28th and there is still so much to do. Kim is the director and I am trying my best to be his assistant. Ryan is playing the lead actor and we were all in a hurry to make it back in time for our 7:00 rehearsal which involved costumes and photos with the newspaper. This volunteer gig with the Little Theater has kept me pretty busy all month. We got a late start on the play due to the relocation of the theater after the car crashed through our building last July. Kim and I managed to rent the space of a nearby church building that is up for sale. Its been a trial though because we are sharing that space with a religious group that is meeting there on Sunday and Wednesday. That necessitates our breaking the set down at every rehearsal before their meeting days. What a huge hassle!
The show has had other problems too with a cast member telling us two weeks before we open that he can't perform the last 5 shows (out of 7) with us. So, a new person is frantically learning his lines. I earnestly hope he will know them in 1 1/2 weeks from now when he'll have to step into the part for the first time. The wonderful costumes I rented from University of Houston have not worked out very well. The men's pieces are not fitting like they were supposed to and I've had to track down costumes used by the BLT on our last show. Which was a challenge in itself since most of the things were at other people's houses and the theater's very packed storage unit here in town. Of course, now that we have another actor to costume that is no where near the same size as the original actor, that's a whole other matter. Fortunately, he was in the last BLT show, "Titanic, the Musical", which was set in about the same time period. So I told him to bring up all the costumes he wore for that show and we'd make them work.
So, I'm busy even though I'm retire. That's not bad, except all of this busy has been for no pay. After the play finishes, I'll get serious about finding a job to help our finances and give me something else to do.
Well, that's about as much as anyone would want to read about what I've been up to. Until next post...good bye. ML
