There's Gold in Them Thar Hills!

I'm excited for tonight. It's my family's annual pilgrimmage to the White Bear Lake Lion's Club show. This is a play my family has attended every year without fail since I was born.

Sure it's pretty much community theater but there's a lot of family pride in it. My Grandpa Fleischhacker, Aunt Janice, and uncle Jerry are White Bear Lions and usually in these plays.

This year my Gramps even worte the play "There's Gold in Them Thar Hills!", and he has written a few others. It will be interesting to see how my uncle gets thru the dance routines on crutches.....after all, these plays are more musicals than anything. Guess that will teach my uncle not to fall off his deer stand again. He's been on crutches since November.

I'm also excited that my relatives from Michigan, Aunt Sue, Uncle Bill, cousin Tracy, her daughter Audra are coming to town and my cousin Molly is flying in from Portland.

Coincidentally, one of my great uncles died yesterday and the funeral will be this weekend so they'll be in town for that, too. My Uncle Ernie lived a long life. He was 89 and his wife, my aunt Evelyn, died some 20-something years ago so I'm glad they're together again.

I hope the show is as good as last year's which was Gilligan's Island themed.
I try to know as little as possible about the show before I see it so I can be surprised and think it better than it might actually be. It's all part of the magic, and the nostalgia of sitting in the same theater I've been sitting in once a year for almost 30 years now.

Go Gramps, Janice and Jerry! Break the other leg!