Spamalot and Halloween

Happy Halloween! But before I start talking about today, I have to recap the past week or so. Well, on the Friday before last, my family and I all went up to see Monty Python's Spamalot in Flint. It was hilarious! For those who don't know, Spamalot is based off of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We drove up a few hours early, so that we could eat dinner at this restuarant called Fudruckers. We go there after every Science Olympiad Regionals event, which is why we knew about it. Their specialty is their hamburgers, which is what I ordered, along with a cookies and creme shake that was so big that I shared with my sister. When we were done eating, we plugged in the address of the theater, and drove for a few minutes until we found it. I thought that Flint wasn't very well off, but we drove past some really nice homes. When we finally got to the theater, we were probably an hour or so early, so we just waited around. My mom bought me a t-shirt that had the Black Knight on the front and "It's Just a Flesh Wound Tour" with all the cities they are going to on the back. When I wore it to school on Monday, all my friends (except the one who had never heard of Monty Python - can you believe it?) loved it. Anyway, the performance was wonderful and very funny. It was nice to actually see it after just listening to the songs over and over. The only problem was that the person who sat next to me kept on swearing when there was anything funny and there were some people behind us that would stop talking and laughing really loud. But other than that, I enjoyed the play. I thought that the funniest part was when King Arthur asks Patsy, his servant, why he didn't tell him he was Jewish, and Patsy replies that you don't really tell that kind of thing to a heavily armed Christian. I had a really good time.

As for the past week, in Art class, we started printing the prints that we drew and etched onto Plexiglas. Mine turned out really well. Now we are working on coping a famous work of art in oil pastel. I chose Renoir's Madame Stora in Algerian Dress (would that be italicized or have quotations or neither??). Also, on Friday, was our first Friday Night Practice/Pizza Night for Science Olympiad. We watched the movie Killers, with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, which was really funny. There were some new and some old team members there, and we probably had too much fun. I'll just leave it at that.

For Halloween, my sister invited over a bunch of friends and so did my friend, who is coming over to my house, as well. I don't know if we're all going together, but it should still be fun. I'm pretty sure that I'm going in my Renaissance dress, but I might wear what I wore on Friday to school, which is a vintage 50's-ish outfit, complete with a hat and gloves. It really depends on the weather and my mood. We still have to put up our decorations and carve our pumpkins today, so I should better get cracking. But as a closing note, for my pumpkin, I'm going to have it say "pumpkin" and then have the pi symbol with the numbers around it!! Isn't that exciting! I'll have to blog later and tell you how everything goes.