Entertainment...26º

Last scene from Mary Poppins.

For the second day in a row, I have enjoyed the Wallowa/ Minam Canyon and all of its fall colors, while sitting in the passenger seat...Elgin was our destination and Mary Poppins was playing at the Elgin Opera House...This is the second show using our "season tickets," seven of us attended the Saturday matinee, sitting in our usual, front row balcony seats.

I can never describe how awesome these shows are or how much enjoyment they provide, but they are topnotch entertainment...The Opera House reopened for live performances in 2007...Pam and I have attended most of the shows since then...First we chose the least expensive seats, upper balcony, no padding, then we slowly moved out of the "nosebleed" section but still no padding...Then we splurged for seats on the main floor, but found that we preferred the balcony and have settled with front row balcony, padded for several years now.

Always looking for a good deal on tickets, we started buying 10 tickets, less cost for each ticket, but then we had to find 8 more people that could attend on the same day and make sure there were 10 seats close together...It worked but it was a pain...Then I checked into "season tickets."..Now I have 18 people that pay $45.00, upfront, for tickets, for four shows (that's too many fours/fors) and we can choose our own dates and our own favorite seats...We can also buy guest tickets for a reduced price...It seems to be working well, much less headache for me.

Enough of my blathering for one day...The show was wonderful, one of the very best, as usual the sets are amazing, singing and dancing is totally unbelievable to me, since I can do neither and the fact that after the matinee, these actors/actresses in about two hours will do a repeat for the evening performance...If you have never attended the Elgin Opera House, I encourage you to do so, "Mama Mia" is coming up next spring...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

They did the flying scenes very well!