11/14/2010 How to Eat Like a Child

No, I’m not going to demonstrate how to eat an animal cracker.

My friend, Marlene, and I went to Central Arizona College today to see the Arts department put on a play by this name.

This is a play based on the book by Delia Ephron.

The play’s cast consisted of four girls and four boys.

The stage setting was very simple and few props were used.

The play depicted 23 musical lessons for kids. Yes, this was a musical.

The scene below teaches Lesson # 2 How To Stay Home From School and subtitled, “I Feel Sick”.

Lesson #9 was the age old How to Understand Your Parents and subtitled “Means No!”

Lesson # 17 brought lots of laughs. No subtitle needed here as this one is “How to Torture Your Sister”

This young lady gave a lesson on “How to Act After Being Sent to Your Room”.

The last act brought out the entire cast in their jammies for Lesson # 23. This one was titled How to Go to Bed and subtitled “We Refuse to Fall Asleep”.

These college kids certainly seem to have fun with this play and audience got quite a few laughs as we remembered our own childhoods.

This certainly was not Broadway quality but they put all they had into it and they should certainly be proud of their efforts.

Marlene and I were glad we went and we have plans of attending a few other programs the college is putting on.

In the meantime Bob worked on the flooring project while the laminate flooring continued to acclimate to our environment.

He cut away part of the carpet so that a border could be determined where the laminate will end the tile start. As you can see the carpet had a curvy edge to it,,,,the laminate won’t!

Look how much the color faded over the years.

Now Bob did find one thing that really surprised us. There is a tip out section that extends out the side of the park model. After taking off the outside skirting and looking underneath he found that the only thing hold this tip out in place is two hinges. There is nothing underneath! At some point along the line one of the owners of this park model built in a rather crude bench seat. Nothing more than a two by four cut to size and a piece of plywood to fit. I’m glad that we never sat on it! We also didn’t know that there was an electrical outlet on that wall as the bench hid it.

I wonder what else we’ll find as we get into this project.