The mornings are always the worst. I woke up at 7am and cried a little and talked to Mom a little more. And then I fell asleep for three more hours lol.
I went into my old room to do the reading for Music; it's so clean and spacious now! I think Eva sleeps here now that we're gone.
After I tutored Louie, I had this urge to find, print out, and play that "Summer" song; Naomi played it for us at Tiffany's house this summer, and I heard someone else play it in the rec room at UCLA. I can't quite explain it; this song just feels like the theme song of my life right now. It's a little sad and it's a little hopeful. It just really speaks to me.
Mom got us tickets to the Hollywood Bowl for this Sound of Music singalong, so we went over to Wilson Park to board the bus. There were all these little kids dressed up! That girl over there was dressed as a deer, and when I saw all these other kids with a teacup and signs saying "far" and "la," I realized it was for the "Do Re Mi" song hahah.
Mom bought me a brownie because I had this craving for one and ... it was pretty bad. Note to self: food at the Hollywood Bowl is cheap and overpriced. ... Lol oxymoron. Kind of. Hah.
They had Melissa Peterson hosting the pre-show; she was Barbara Jean from Reba, and I thought that was kind of cool. Except she's kind of insane hahaha.
They had this costume contest thing, and I thought it was a little stupid because some people were barely wearing anything in resemblance to the movie, and claiming they were dressed up as Liesl or something lol. At the end they announced that first place got this seven day Mexico cruise thing, and we were like holy shit! Lol. It's totally geared towards kids though hahah; this little girl dressed up in a yellow teardrop ("Ray, a drop of golden sun") won. It was really hahah.
I think going into this event, Mom and I both thought it was supposed to be some kind of concert, but it was basically a showing of the movie. We were given a goody bag with all these little things that could be used for audience participation (like there was a card with a question mark and another one with Maria on that we could wave for the song "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?") but we didn't really participate for most of the items lol.
When the Captain sings "Edelweiss," we were supposed to pull out this plastic edelweiss flower they provided us, but everyone just pulled out their cell phones hahah. It totally reminded me of the Star Wars-lightsaber moment the last time we were here. We also got party poppers to pop when the Captain and Maria kiss, and everyone did that one! I've never used a party popper before (or if I had it was a very long time ago), and I had no idea which end it would pop, so when I pulled the string, it exploded in my hand! And then a second later Mom popped hers in her hand too! It was really hilarious though, because towards the end of the movie when Rolf finds the family in the cementary, he says "Not another step, I'll shoot!" and all these people pulled their poppers LOLLLL. Mom and I couldn't stop cracking up at that hahahaha.Anyhow, we got home and I played piano for a while. I'm gonna try to get Mom to ask Dan if I can borrow one of his keyboards and bring it to UCLA lol.
