That was the weekend then...
Dec. 19th, 2011 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daveonFriday, we had friends come over for Videos and to watch their puppy interact with our dogs. They lost a dog earlier in the year, but she'd had some temperament issues and hadn't socialized well with other dogs. They've been bringing Zola around since she was about 16 weeks old and she gets on very well with our 2 year old. Of course, the issue at hand is that Tara, the 2 year old is a Chocolate Lab and Zola is a Great Dane. So that at 16 weeks, Zola was a smidge smaller than Tara. Now she's a LOT bigger. Still they got on well. Tyson spent the entire evening trying to dominate (read hump) the puppy, which was rather comical given his slightly gimpy front right leg and the size difference. Anyway, lots of fun, and we saw Cowboys V. Aliens which was... umm... good fun really and not at all crap. Honest.
Saturday M suggested that we actually have our Christmas dinner with friends who were coming around because we're at another friends for Christmas and they traditionally do beef not Turkey. So, Turkey it was, and very good too if I do say so myself. We will be eating turkey for every meal this week though.
Sunday we had to get up and out to have brunch and go to the Panto. Panto is not a core part of the American Christmas in the way it is in the rest of the other former British colonies. The break occurred about 40 years too early according to Wikipedia. It's something of a shame because I think there's an interesting What If around American popular culture if Panto was popular. Anyway, there's a troupe of amatuers here in Seattle who do an annual Christmas Panto at the Hales Palladium, which is basically a shed at the back of Hales Brewery. This year they did Peter Pan, which is a tricky one, especially if you're not going to do wire work. But still, they did a great job, the usual mixture of sexual innuendo and topical jokes (London, home of Big Ben and a stable alternative monetary system...) - the best bit was they let the kids sit at the front of the stage and really get into the audience interaction, which took about 20 minutes but once the kids understood they were allowed to get involved they had a great time. I think one girl was actually crying when Tinkerbell died... anyway, lots of fun, and a wide mixture of ages, including visiting grandparents from the UK who'd brought their children and grand-children...
Good fun. Then home to catch up with Boardwalk Empire and the season finales of Homeland and Dexter.
Homeland? Must see TV. Clare Danes and Damien Lewis are already having their names engraved on the Emmy's as you read this.
Saturday M suggested that we actually have our Christmas dinner with friends who were coming around because we're at another friends for Christmas and they traditionally do beef not Turkey. So, Turkey it was, and very good too if I do say so myself. We will be eating turkey for every meal this week though.
Sunday we had to get up and out to have brunch and go to the Panto. Panto is not a core part of the American Christmas in the way it is in the rest of the other former British colonies. The break occurred about 40 years too early according to Wikipedia. It's something of a shame because I think there's an interesting What If around American popular culture if Panto was popular. Anyway, there's a troupe of amatuers here in Seattle who do an annual Christmas Panto at the Hales Palladium, which is basically a shed at the back of Hales Brewery. This year they did Peter Pan, which is a tricky one, especially if you're not going to do wire work. But still, they did a great job, the usual mixture of sexual innuendo and topical jokes (London, home of Big Ben and a stable alternative monetary system...) - the best bit was they let the kids sit at the front of the stage and really get into the audience interaction, which took about 20 minutes but once the kids understood they were allowed to get involved they had a great time. I think one girl was actually crying when Tinkerbell died... anyway, lots of fun, and a wide mixture of ages, including visiting grandparents from the UK who'd brought their children and grand-children...
Good fun. Then home to catch up with Boardwalk Empire and the season finales of Homeland and Dexter.
Homeland? Must see TV. Clare Danes and Damien Lewis are already having their names engraved on the Emmy's as you read this.
