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Ok, since I haven't been writing much lately, and a picture's worth a thousand words, I thought I'd send you a few snapshots of our life here in KC.
So out on the Plaza is this old diner called Winsteads and my dad used to go there when he was a kid. It's a little like 5 n' Diner if you've ever been there......anyway, nearly every time we go, we end up with a skyscraper; a milkshake or malt served in a vase and enough to feed 3-5 people. That's excluding teenage boys: they usually drink their own. One guy drank an entire skyscraper in 7 minutes and then......well, you probably don't want to hear that story ; )
Ummmm, this was after a very intense Good Friday show that some of my friends were in........I think the tension must have been too much for us : ) That's Jordan and Anna is about to kill him with that really cool knife. I wish I had a picture of the hilt cuz it's pretty amazing.
Snow, snow, glorious snow!!!! My front yard after a light snow last winter. Probably January....... I think that was the day I hit a light pole twice sledding on the road behind my house. Good times........
I just put this in because the grass looked so green and beautiful.......As you can obviously tell, it had been raining pretty hard that day. You know, that wet stuff that falls from the sky? No? Oh well...... Anyway, we all went out behind our theater school and played in the puddles!! That piece of wood was our attempt at a bridge. Didn't work out so well.......
Um, this is me dying. A few of my friends are in theater for the stunts stuff, so in their free time they're usually practicing falling, hitting, fighting, pretending to shoot stuff- stuff like that. As you can tell by my defeat, here depicted as I laugh my way to the grave, I'm not really very good at sword figting. But how often do you get to hit your friends with big padded swords and practice dying repeatedly?!?
Nerd day, one of the brilliant inventions of Andrea and Melissa (the girl on the far right). It was all fun and games until the bullies came along.....
and James mugged her.
Unfortunately, for about half the year, there are no leaves on the trees! Weird I know. I have a similar picture from summer when the trees are green, and I would put it up but my computer is not in a gratifying mood........ These are some of my crazy dance friends (excluding James, far right, who is merely our techy guy) playing our favorite game. Oh good memories in that park across the street from my house in AZ!! Only it was about 75 degrees when this picture was taken, slight difference from the molten heat of Phoenix.......
Ahaha! Cinderella...... I had two costumes in this show and I purposefully chose not to include a picture of me as a cat. Amy Z. here was a rat that I had to chase out of the house. Not much to say about dance recital, both Andrea and I prefer theater, as all good people do....... ; )
Shawnee Mission Park, two miles from my house has a lake with a beach, sailboats to rent, mountain bike trails, frisbee golf, rc plane flying field, dog park, horses, every kind of sport and a thousand other things. Trails lead off the park all around my house and criss cross streams and forests (and again this is another tag for KC and the fact that you all need to visit). This is of course me playing soccer with the guys, my Nick side coming out.......that was for you Nate Schmidt. Ha! I found a picture of the lake!! It's not a very good one, and me and Coleman are making funny faces, but you can see how beautiful it is.......
Andrea and Aaron climbed the roof of one of the gazebo's to show off thier spider man powers........ really, they called it spider man powers. I was up on the hill playing soccer so I missed all the super hero action........ I actually put this picture in because the trees were so pretty.
There are tons of ducks and geese (as well as deer, rabbits, possums, raccoons and lots of other animals) at the park so we collected feathers and decided to be indians. Coleman was the chief and I was a skwa.....I don't really have very many pictures of the gorgeous foliage around here, (my computer deleted it all, frustratingly) but I like the fact that the natural landscape is not scruffy......
And last, but far from least, a dress rehearsal shot from Sleeping Beauty. Being my first, I believe this show will always be my favorite, as well as for the fact that we had an absolutely wonderful cast. The Jester right there is Aaron ( a.k.a. spider man from the picture above) and every show I had to slap him in the opening scene. Of course it was a stage slap so I never hit him very hard, but for the last show he told me to go ahead and hit him. Unfortunately, I misjudged my spacing........ he was later complimented on how realistic his crazy drunken behavior was in the remainder of the scene....... ; )
Well, that was a bunch of random information and pictures and I'll be surprised to find out that anyone actually read the whole thing. But that's a small slice of Nicky's life here in the middle of the country. -Nicky |
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