I wouldn't classify Drew as unenthusiastic at all, rather he is an extremely calm, cool and collected guy. In fact, I think it is quite possible that he invented that term.
He has a poker face about most things. Whether he is elated (like when he eats an organic chocolate chip cookie after 11pm in our kitchen and does the silliest dance you have ever seen), or upset (like when I break any one of the three thousand electronic devices we have in our house), or tired (like when he stays up way too late watching stupid movies on cable) or angry (because maybe some of the small people in our house is completely ignoring him), his face shows NADA, total poker face.
I have been with this man for fourteen years and even I sometimes have a hard time gauging what his feelings are about certain things.
SO, when I asked him how he liked Ovo, the newest Cirque du Soleil show that we went to see last Sunday night, he said very enthusiastically, "that show was slamming."
And yeah, I just about fell over. I mean I also thought it was beyond amazing* as did my girls, but this guy was flat out like "THAT SHOW WAS SLAMMING."
* Consider yourself warned that the use of the word amazing will be grossly overused throughout this post. And that will be for two reasons the first being that it was AMAZING, and the second being my lackluster (although that was pretty good) vocabulary at times and coming up with ten different ways to say amazing after a long day at work is quite hard. Apologies.
So, this show was beyond amazing!
This is the second Cirque du Soleil show that we have seen and I think we were all in agreement that we liked this one better than the first. {And we didn't think that was even possible.}
We saw the show under this amazing tent at Randall's Island. Randall's Island is this little island underneath the Triboro Bridge and it is situated next to Manhattan.
The stage design was AMAZING and the performers costumes were so life-like that each performer seemed to become the insect they were portraying.
The storyline was campy and cute and my girls LOVED it. The main storyline involved this bee and this other insect falling in love and finally in the end they got together and did some smooching!
Each act seemed better than the next and what these performers can do with their bodies not only defies the laws of gravity but doesn't seem humanly possibly.
What the performers did on this wall left us all with our mouths hanging open, literally. And when I asked the girls what their favorite part of the show was they both said "everything." And I asked twice!
And then it was the coolest thing, right when we thought the show was over this woman comes down from the ceiling out of nowhere AND YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO GUESS WHO IT WAS?
Yeah, PINK!! It was freaking Pink at Cirque du Soleil.
No kidding, we were like HOLY SHIZZ, THIS SHOW DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!!
If you can get to see this show, I can not recommend it enough. Your kids will love it, your husbands will think it is slamming and your family will leave the theater so happy.
It was AMAZING!!
*Pink does not really come down from the ceiling, but she totally could.
