Day 77 Busy Sunday

This is the last Sunday we'll be at church before some of our LCC friends leave for home, so we wanted to do something to thank them for their kindnesses to us.  We got a couple of kinds of cookies at the bakery and I made some finger foods and salsa to go with them for the after church time. That meant I spent the morning in the kitchen with frozen puff pastry.  They don't have frozen pie crust here or crisco  to make it from scratch, but puff pastry is good stuff.  I don't think they have filo dough in the stores, either.  

Then we went upstairs to have lunch with Levi and his parents.  They will be leaving soon for the summer.  He will get to see his Pittsburg grandparents when they aren't in a skype box.  We had a late lunch, because Darius is from Poland and went to the consulate to participate in a ceremony for the first year anniversary of the tragic deaths of so many Polish government officials.  The pilot was someone he knew, so it particularly sad for him.  We left just in time to pack our tote bags with goodies and head for church.

I felt a little guilty, because we had to leave the after church coffee time after only 15 minutes to go to the ballet, so other people had to clean up.  They had agreed ahead of time, but still.

We hurried down stairs to meet Audrone who met us in a taxi to get to the concert hall on time.  The dance was quite unusual - more like modern dance and somewhat funny.  The male dancers were not actually dancers.  They were well known Lithuanian actors from movies, and theater-actors who dance, I think they say in the US.  Del said he thought the choreographer did the dance on a day when she was not feeling too good about men, based on the humor that related to them being hit in delicate spots.  It was sort of a more elegant slap stick sort of thing.  Not at all like the first production we saw, except for inventive use of stools in place of the chairs she used last time.  We enjoyed it, though.

The stage was sparsely set.  Black curtains with a back drop of square white pillows - 19 across, 7 down - fastened together by the four corners so that there was an oval space between each pair.  Occasionally they back lit with red or white lights that shone through the ovals.

We got home and skyped with the kids.  Enzo and Stacy went back home yesterday.  I know Sally and LeRoy are feeling pretty sad today.  There were so many darling pictures of Enzo on FB, some with his cousin Rosa.  He seems like such a happy baby.  I'll bet he is a tired little fellow after his trip,