Summer Theatre Fun for Kids

Um, I was just telling her Pinky's like pushing us pretty hard. She wants a record player like so's Stella. It's, it's the weirdest where come from. Well, I mean, everything's cyclical, right? Like

Yeah. It's coming back.

Yeah. That up bell bottom pants and, mm-hmm. It's just, I know these weird loops.

There's nothing new under the sun.

Yeah, it does feel that way.

I'm like, we, I was telling Stella like we thought, we were so excited when you didn't have to move the needle, move the needle, scratch it. There was dust on it and now you wanna go back to that.

Well, okay, but the thing I understand is, um, when it comes to the sound, so like when they make MP three s, they drop some tracks, right?

That sort of. Would normally fill out the sound. Yes. That's what I'm hearing. And that that's what's missing in music today, in these digital formats that exist on these vinyl records. Mm-hmm. You know, the funny thing is like, I, I grew up in a house with my dad who had a record player and a whole like, collection of records that I never once heard him play, but survival, right?

So like I grew up in this house where it was there, and never once do I ever remember him playing.

We had a huge one. It's like a piece of furniture. Wow. Yes,

yes. With like a cabinet attorney. Yes, yes. Like, yes.

My mom still has it. My brother had it refurbished and got the sound all, you can get

like a little cute one, like 69 bucks.

It comes with a, so

some of them are like, it's a Bluetooth. Yeah. Some of them are really cute. It's 60 to me. Yeah. But the speaker inside of 'em, that's why you want 'em to be Bluetooths because the speaker that's built into them isn't very good. Isn't good. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. Gotcha. That's the brand that starts with the c I forget the name of it, but

um, I can get it tomorrow on Prime.

Yeah. Uh, LA la, la. It's delivered here by the time we're done. Yeah. Dan, Dan Fi audio record

player. It's a little different. Yeah. So we

went to what the qualities,

like we went to the mall, the this Chris puts it, the Five Three Knives

A mall, the Three Knives Mall. Oh, it's a four knives mall. I don't know anymore.

The Lakeland Mall. Yeah, it's probably

five knives by now.

Oh yeah,

yeah. Anyways, so we went up there with her because they have an FYE or whatever. Oh right. And uh, they had records there and she really wanted to see if she could get this record from the album that just dropped. Mm-hmm. And. And of course they didn't have it, but they had like an older one, so she went ahead and bought it.

It's her money. She can do with it. Mm-hmm. What she pleases. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You know.

How much do records cost nowadays?

20-22 to 25 bucks? Depending. Okay.

Like what a cd. I guess

whichever bar couldn't even tell you the last time, time

I play for, I pay for us to all have Apple Music so I don't have to do this shit.

Apparently. Here we are,

Verizon, we're like, you realize you're gonna have any album you want right here at your fingers?

Immediately the second it drops. Yes. I don't know. It's a thing. Yeah. So she's pushing pretty hard, I guess there's a record store like close to Dixie Town or whatever that is. Anyway, so she's like wanting to go over there.

Yeah. And see if they have the record that we already ordered for her. Yeah. One downtown here. That should be here soon. Like we already ordered it, so she's not gonna get it today.

Right, right. But

that's, you can, or like in the mail, I'd be afraid it'd warp or break or something.

Have it shipped like Prime.

I mean, yeah, that's what I think he got it on Amazon maybe, but

I don't know. Well, in the same vein of going back to old music, I was pressure washing my mom's house the other day and I had my Airbuds in. I was listening to Pandora Tears for Fears Radio. So it's all like, love it. College. Yes. Late high school music.

Yes, pretty much. And you start listening to the lyrics of some of these songs, I'm like, oh my gosh, that's what they're saying. Yeah, like father figure from uh, George Michael. I'm like, is he a pedophile? Oh, talking about tiny. It's questionables and I will be your father figure. Put your tiny hand aside. I like, I need to look this up cuz some of the lyrics I thought.

Oh my goodness. Well, okay. Yeah,

it is a little, yeah. Interesting. Especially, you know, growing up I had the biggest crush on him. Totally. Oh yeah. That he was, you know. Oh, you weren't allowed to be. Probably not into me. Yeah, exactly.

God forbid you meet who you are. Yes. I know you're not allowed, which is a whole nother conversation this week.

Oh my gosh. Yes, yes, yes. The hate is rampant.

Oh my God. It is. But anyways, how it's so, it's just how it's, it's how live now. Then I'm go back and listen to his music and be like, Hmm, what is this? So it brings a whole new meaning. Really does, you know, once you realize what their personal feelings are, are you right?

Yeah. So

anyway, welcome to the Drama Mamas.

Yes. Welcome.

I'm Kristen. I'm Angela.

I'm Kathy.

We're here. We are somewheres beautiful Back at the joinery today cuz it's

gorgeous. It's

absolutely, yeah. Chris, like when we go out yesterday, Because the kids were home with the holiday, you know, and he's like, let's go out and do something.

Cuz he's been, we've been very diligent in the house, working hard on some stuff and, yeah. So he was kind of wanting to get out and I was kind of like, nah, I'm good. It's a bras off kinda day

cocoon. It's a pajama

day. Yeah. I had that the other day. Well, pinky slept all day. You got up. I

know when we texted you at like

one Yeah, I think that, I don't remember what time it was that you texted me, but it was after lunch.

Yeah. She was like, what are we having for lunch? She came out and emerged from her room, what are we having for lunch? And we're like, I don. She's like, oh. And then we're like, well, maybe we'll do this chicken. We have some, you know, potatoes. Mm-hmm. Some baked potatoes. We'll do baked potatoes. Bri chicken on it.

You know, cheese. Yeah. Something light. Yeah. I'm going back to bed. It wasn't,

I didn't spawn her interest. Nope.

No. I mean, she ate it. We went and gave it to her, but yeah. Yeah. And my

kids were up by like eight. We'd already done a whole day's worth of activities. I'm like, she's still in bed. Oh, fabulous.

I live her life.

Sleep. We sleep late in our house when we can.

We sleep late. I wish I could. I would in a heartbeat if I could, but I'm wide awake. Six 30 at the latest I in bed and be like,

yes. Slept in again until like eight 30 today. Five 20. I five. But poverty. But poverty got up. She was up before I left. Oh, okay. Well good.

It's, you know, 11. So she was in the shower. She was in the shower at 10. She's got something to do

today, man. She wants to go That freaking record.

That's so she's motivated. Yeah, she, she's, she's very motivated to shop Uhhuh. She's always about those like target expeditions. That's great.

Yeah, well, loves that.

Part of the reason we got it yesterday is cuz we went to the bank and opened Lily Kate's team checking account cuz she, you have to be 13. That she turned 13 on Thursday. So Friday we were there with her wad of cash that she's been writing. Nice, nice.

What bank did you end up going with? Wells Fargo. Oh, okay.

Mm-hmm. So we have an account

there. I did that once for McKayla, like a student, you know, account or whatever, like a savings. And then they didn't open it right as a student. Oh. And then they started filling her, right? Yeah. And so her like $45 we had put in there was like gone. Oh yeah. So bast and I went up there and raised Holy hell.

Yeah. And they were like, oh, we're sorry. Somebody like didn't put it in as a student. It's not a. You know, there's really nothing we can do about that. I was like, oh, so you just are around to steal children's money. Nice. Good to know. I guess we'll just keep putting it under her mattress.

Well, this account, there's no fees.

There's no overdraft, so Yeah. So it's pretty cool. Nice. Yeah. Good. Good for her. And they get

a debit card. Manage her little money. Yeah. Which

is awesome. You should do the Apple Cash thing for her too. We do. She can do that. We do. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. The cash card.

Yeah. But she's, she's the saver. She's you. She got a vision just like she wants to buy these shoes.

I'm

like You. Is she gonna save up and drop? Buy her purple Jeep. Oh yes.

What she's going for purple Jeep not buying Wrangler Purple Jeep. That's what she wants. The daisy on the wheel cover. Oh my God. I sent

her a picture the other day of went. Went the other day, but like a few weeks back. Uh, it was a regular painted Jeep with purple accents.

Oh, okay. And I was like, maybe this is a compromise.

Hey, you know, she

saves it up. Yeah. She knows what she wants. She's, I love a Bohemian baby. Yeah,

she is. I love that. Yeah, she is. Oh, speaking of that, I came across this great website, and so, because I was like, oh man, you know, we're thinking about like Lily Kate, her birthday, and da da da da, and I was talking to Gabby about it and I was like, I had gotten their shower curtain from.

When it had popped back up on my thing, it's like natural life, I think is what it's called. I know it's windy out today. It's gonna blow all our papers. Well, anyway, of course, when you need something, it doesn't come up. Usually it'll come up, you know, four hours from now and I will Well,

you just talked about it's gonna be

on your Facebook.

Yes. Natural life. Could you come up anyway? They have lots of cool, no, never. When you,

no, it's slate.

Decorations. Let's check that out. Housewares and little mu like, yes,

totally thought of it. Yeah. Well look, because we're redoing her room, so Yes, that would be great. She would love that. That'd be

fun. Pinky likes to redo her room.

Yeah. And she's redone it like. Every year just about. Mm-hmm. She's like, okay, this one's done onto the

next, can I paint? Come on. What paint do you want? She's like, I haven't decided yet.

Paint. Paint. I know it's fun until you're like three quarters of the way done and your hand's like this. Oh no. I

love to paint.

Really? Paint all day long. Every day. It's such a like immediate gratification, right?

Because it's done right there.

Woo. See the difference. Do you, do you like freehand your lines?

No, no. Taking my ocd. Do you think I freehand

anything? No. Do you get the

tool that does it? I've had the tool. I mean, I can cut in fine.

Yeah, that's what you're asking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can do that. I'm not like freehanding shapes on the wall like. Nick. Judy does. I know. He's amazing. Oh

gosh. Yeah. Not many people can do that. Disgusting. Yeah, he's super talented. Max wants to redo his for his birthday too. Mm-hmm. But that's because he wants a whole gaming set up.

Oh, oh, right. So he's

like already sending me desks and, you know, get his multiple screens so he can

build his businesses. We were in, um, we were in d h photo and he was like, really? Oh, I bet. Really loving. They had so uhhuh. They're, they have photography equipment, but they also had so much else. Mm-hmm. And they had like three different setups, I think for like car racing games.

Oh my gosh. And he was living for that. You could just tell he was like, he probably highlighted the trip for Oh yeah. He wanted to go back there. Well, that in the shoe place. Yeah.

Oh God. He wanted to go to every shoe place. Jesus was crazy. Uh, but um, but yeah, so he's got it all in his brain, what

he wants and whatever.

So we're working on, it'll be fun.

Yeah. Thank God we have a little bit more time. It'll, I mean, iss his birthday June. Oh,

okay. 14th. I mean, it'll be here before we know. Yeah. Just around the corner. But I have just a little bit of, yeah. I feel like I blinked in. It's already April.

Well, that's why I can went through, yeah.

This great. Hold some info from for us because I realized. I'm a planner. Yes. I like to know my options. Yes. And I feel very disconnected because we had New York and we had drowsy chaperone and we have frozen and we have all these different things that are like pulling our attention and yeah, this, all this stuff is gonna come up really quickly.

Yeah. And there's a lot of deadlines. Yes. Yes. So I thought we could pull together some info for parents and

others about you. Bring me one of. All right. Let's see your, take it. Mine's more general Lake.

Yeah, this is like in our community. What can you do? So I started out with camps because they're all different prices.

Yeah, that's perfect. Of age group. So, and I went with just the two theaters. We know Lakeland, community Theater and Theater, water Haven, cuz we can vouch for those and say that they're excellent and you are, get excellent training and,

and they're safe and your kids will

be in a good place. And I'm sure there's others out there.

I just don't know those theaters well enough to vouch for. Um, but this is a great, camps are a great way if your child has any kind of interest to do a camp to see do I truly like this? And see what the process is like. And the people. You build relationships, you get to meet people that will probably be casting shows later in the year.

Yep. So it's a really good

opportunity. Yep. Yeah, it's funny cuz like I was connections given blood one time and the lady drawing my blood was asking me questions because her daughter had, you know, wanted to do this stuff and she's like, she auditioned but she didn't get cast. And I was like, well yeah, that happens.

You get a lot more nos than you get yeses. Mm-hmm. And you know, Lord knows we've heard that a lot on the podcast. Um, but she's like, well what can I do to like, you know, get my kid more, um, In front of the people that make those decisions. And I was like, well, uh, camps. Yeah. Camps. And then the afterschool programs too.

Yeah, the classes. Mm-hmm. Like all of those are a fantastic way to have Yeah. Like not only is your kid learning, but Yes. They're also in front of the people mm-hmm. Who are doing these shows and, right. Um, yeah.

So it's a really good opportunity or bad if your child misbehaves because that is true. Exactly.

That needs an impression. Yes. Always on an audition. It's a double-edged sword. If you're going to do a camp, you gotta be on your misbehavior. Yeah, yeah. But L cts, two different camps going on this summer. They've got the A show in one week, so it's a Broadway review. And that's for ages six to 10. So they split it up this year into age groups because it was just, well, they

get a lot of participation over the summer.

Really good groups of kids. Yeah.

Over a hundred. Yeah. Easy. Yeah. So this one is in June, June 26th to the 30th. And, uh, it's $350. Mm-hmm. And so what they'll do is, it's not a like a, Show, like a start to finish show. It's a review. So it's different songs. Oh, okay. Kind of like altogether

it was. Yep, yep. And everybody gets cast, everybody.

Yep. Yep. So, so they'll audition probably the first day or whatever, right? Mm-hmm. And then they'll go ahead and place some in their different. Parts, but there'll be plenty of big parts to go

around. Yeah. Yeah.

In more than one, I like them doing the reviews better. This year it's really hard to put together a show.

Mm-hmm. In like a full on show that tells a whole story from the start to end. Yeah. Right. In such a short amount of time. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. Yes, definitely. So, L CT also has later in the summer for the older kids, 11 to 18 or sixth to 12th grade, a show in two weeks. So it's the same idea as a Broadway. Uh, but it's a two week camp versus the one week.

Yeah.

And maybe your kids, so it's like pure imagination for the little kids. Mm-hmm. Is that like Willy Wonka or is it, it just happens to be the words

it, I imagine it may have that song in there. I don't know. I have that information up and

then the big kids get Raise your voice. Raise voice, right?

Yep.

Which theater? Winter Haven is doing also July 10th through 28th. So interesting. Mm. So dates don't work for one. You can look at the dates for different ones. Yeah. And

that's the other thing too, is you'll notice there's gonna be a lot of overlap. Yes. So you'll have to kind of pick and choose rights, how you

wanna spend it somewhere.

Yeah. We'll put this up on the mm-hmm. Website. Yes. It's all the kind of information. Um, but the two week campus, $500. And if money's a struggle for you, there are scholarships available. Yes. Just in choir. Yeah. That's, and if your kid. Community service hours. This is a great way for the older kids to volunteer at these camps and earn

hours, wrap up some serious hours volunteering at the theater.

Yeah, it's a lot of

fun. Yep. And I think you have to be 16. I think Jordan was stand.

Is that what it was? Okay. For the camps? Yes. Yes. That makes

sense. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think that makes sense. Yeah. Because you need Yeah, the right supervision. Yes. Not just a presence.

Right. That's funny. Harvey's always like, I wanna help Jordan with her class next year.

You know, whatever. I'm like, You're still kind young. Yeah. Still you're kinda in age in November, but yeah. Still she's gonna be

busy.

Yeah. She's gonna be doing stuff. All right. Winter Haven also has a few things. They have an upcoming one day workshop called Broadway Beginnings, which is that the same as what

Gabby did?

Is it same organization? No, she did Destination Broadway. But I'm wondering if this is what our, that gentleman that we had on our podcast from New York had said that. They were doing Because what it is, it's, you do it at a local theater. Mm-hmm. And then you bring it to New York. Yes. I guess if it gets chosen, I wonder if that's, oh, I'm not sure.

Oh, I don't know either.

But

these are the people that are running it, are doing, they do a lot of Disney stuff. Oh, okay. And, um, it's a one day camp. It's from 10 to five. It's

$125.

If you want a t-shirt, it's an extra $20, and age is 11 and up. So it's kind of like a, it's like a mini summer intensive, I think.

In one day.

Yeah. That's kind of cool. Yeah,

it's very cool with really qualified people running that. Yeah. And all these things that we're talking about, you can find on their websites to get more information or call them. Okay. And then they have an actual musical camp Rock the musical, so that's their one of their summer camps.

It's from June 12th to the 30th and it's ages eight to 17. Okay. Or 499, unless you register before May 1st, it's 450. Wow. So that is an actual show. Yeah, it's a show. Your child is interested in that, like seeing what it takes to put on a show. Yeah. Um, that would be an actual show versus the one later in the summer.

The raise Your voice is a review. Okay. So those are some of the camps that you can do. That's pretty cool. And then we've got productions that are still going on. Mm-hmm. Now most of them are already cast, but these are great things to come and see. Port Tech.

Yes. Get some experience there. We've, well, first one on your list is definitely not cast right.

So Finding NEMO Junior. Disney's Finding Nemo Juniors coming up at L C T Lakeland Community Theater auditions are next Saturday. So April

15th. Yes. At 10. Yeah, starting

for starting at 10 and going into like five or six o'clock at night.

Yes. Right. So you, so you can go on the website. Mm-hmm. And then email Bridget, her email's on there.

Mm-hmm. And then she will go ahead and assign you a time for to bring your child, which is great. So you don't have to sit there and wait all day. There's like 30 minute

time slots, so don't take. Maybe 10 kids each 30 minute time slot. I can't remember how many, but yeah, you'll get assigned a time to come.

So if they tell you to come at 10 30, come at 10 30.

So the auditions, we've talked about this in past podcasts, but just to kind of rehash it really quick. Mm-hmm. Yeah. The auditions are bringing, you have to have a prepared piece. Sing 16 bars. You need the sheet music with you. You're gonna have, they have a piano accompaniment there that will read that sheet music and play while you sing.

Mm-hmm. Yep. Your 16 bar. And then you go and you learn a quick choreo number and that dance, and then you perform that, you get kind of graded on that. Mm-hmm. Um, and then you'll either be called back or not called back callbacks or the next day, I believe. I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Yes they are. That's great.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I don't know what time. I do not know that. Yeah. And it's a Sunday.

Yes. And they can do em a little bit earlier so that you're not there

all night. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Play there earlier. Yeah. Which is nice. It's hard when they have to get up the next morning real early after they've been out late, so.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kids. Um, yeah. Kids

and the dance audition, like children should not freak out about the dance audition that they get it perfect. That's not the girl

there. No, no. Yeah. You know, it's actually, that's a good point. Um, it's the, even the singing, like even if you screw up, it's about how you handle yourself mm-hmm.

During that audition. Absolutely. Yeah. You know? Um, can you sing? They can tell that. Yeah. Um, approachable, you are. Can you move? Yes. How approachable, how easy do you take instruction? Yes. That kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're, they're looking for a lot of different things. It's not just like you're perfect in a dance suit.

Yeah. They're not looking for perfect fit. No.

Wear close toe shoes. Yes. Yes. No like sandals or flip flops or

CROs. No rocks. No. These noss wearing all these crocs.

Well, and experience kids wearing Crocs.

Yes. Kids I know better.

Yeah. No. Yes. Drives me.

All right. At theater Winter Haven upcoming that you can go see is Arista Catt Kids.

It's her penguin project. The first one they're

doing

over there. Yes. It's exciting. Super exciting. So Penguin Project is kind of like Lakeland Community Theaters out of the box production. So it's like kids special needs. Mm-hmm. Um, well, any, any, I don't know if Penguin Project is just kids or not It's kids.

Is it okay. So they have helpers that are not special needs. Mm-hmm. But the, this is the opportunity for those kids to, um, for the special needs kids to actually. You know, see the benefits of theater. Yes. Be part of that all. Yeah, definitely. And gosh, it just like warms my heart every time we do stuff with them.

I'm so bummed that, you know, it conflicts with all our frozen stuff. Because I had told Jordan like mm-hmm. You know, months ago, just like you did, I was like, Countess in, we're in, we're backstage, we're out of the box, you know, we're happy to help. And then we got. For Frozen. And I was like, well, we're not just kidding.

Sorry. Yeah, that makes it,

I know, I know. But we can still go see that's, I just should have put that on here. Outta the box is the first weekend in May. Yeah. At L C t that if you wanna just Yes. Feel good about life. Go see that cuz. That is my favorite. It's

like Friday and Saturday, right? Yes. Yeah. There's two different casts.

First weekend in May.

Mm-hmm. Yep, yep,

yep. And then they also have Mary Poppins, which Gabby is guys, Mary Poppins Jr. It's May 10th through the 14th, so I think it's a Thursday through Sunday, probably. It is. Okay. Yes,

yes. So they have school shows. Mm-hmm. Um, and then they're also doing the Saturday and Sunday and I, there's probably a Friday night in there.

I'm not a hundred percent on the schedule. Um, but yeah, I mean, they're, they

on your fridge? It's, it is totally shows my personally yesterday. Yeah. Again, I gonna count.

Yes. Again, thank God I have a husband who's on it

because

it's nice. Have a yin to your yang. Oh gosh, I hear you. I

need that ying more than I like to admit.

I need the yin. I like to think that I can yin yang all by myself, but you know, sometimes that doesn't happen and I do need. Lovely. Yeah. But yeah, so that's great. And then um, their tech weekends is the out of the box weekend. Mm-hmm. So we'll be tied up. Caps will be over there tech weekend, but we're still hoping I'll be able to get over and see.

Yeah, we figured we can out of the box. We're able to go see the out of the box Saturday morning show cuz our frozen stuff is until Saturday night,

so. We'll, okay, good. Yeah, the tickets haven't gone on sale for frozen stuff yet, but like I have to buy. So many tickets right now. Mm-hmm. Because we need to make sure too, that our, like our L c t crew gets to go, right?

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Cause there's only so many

tickets. Yeah. It's not that big of a deal. And Saturday is kind of like, they perform Thursday and then they perform Saturday. Our kids. Okay. Okay. Um, Saturday night. Thursday night. Saturday nights. And when is actual performance? Thursday night and Saturday night.

Okay. That first weekend of May? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha, gotcha. Oh, okay. Gotcha. So like

everything else is happening. I, I know there's so much overlap. That's the problem.

And your birthday's in there. Yeah. May 5th. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So cool. She could celebrate after the show.

Yeah, I'd probably celebrate by going to bed.

I'm so glad you said that. Trying to be a good friend.

Yeah. You know. And then this is Mother's Day weekend too, Mary

Popps. Oh, that's right. It is. Yes, that's right. Yeah. So you can see how all these things are like Yeah, it's like this complicated web of vaccine. You know what,

we're usually, we're almost always Father's Day at the, at the, the

theater?

Yes. Always. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Oh, that's right. Cause Nemo, there's two weekends for nemo. It's, yes. The weekend of June 16th and 23rd.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, It's funny cuz like I, I kind of live and die by the calendar these days. Mm-hmm. Like, I can't daily. Yeah. What am I doing today? Yeah. My phone tells me I have it on the lock screen, even like Oh, do you?

Yeah. Telling me like what I have coming up. Yeah. Because I can't, cause my brain can't keep all of that straight now. You know, you need to get it off your fridge and into your calendar. I do. On

your phone. Well, and you know what, what's crazy is yesterday threw me off because it was, it's a Friday. So normally kids are in school, we have our thing, I'm working right.

What was Good? Friday holiday kids are off. I was off, so my day was completely, yeah, you

know. Yeah. You wake up, what day is it? I know, I thought it was Saturday.

I don't even know what's going on, you know, like who's on first? So, yeah, same. Um, today she has rehearsal from one to four, so thank goodness PJ has got that covered.

Max also wants to go fishing, so at some point we'll squeeze that in throughout. That's beautiful. Out and get him out of his game. Yeah. Where are you gonna take him fishing? So there's a couple different options. So there's Peterson Park, which is um, Down off Cleveland Heights. Okay. There's a little park back in there where there's baseball fields and they have a bunch of different things.

There's 10, is that the one behind the Y? Yeah, Uhhuh. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I've been back

there. Yep. Yep. There's 10 Iraq, which depending on time. Yeah. Which is great.

That's awesome. I feel like there's a lot more sun at Tenon. Yeah. Like if you're, you know, yes. Me and you're trying to be a vampire and stay out of the sun.

Yes, there is. Um, there's tends to be

bigger fish out there too. Yeah. Which, But, um, our old standby is always Caroline Lakes. So we're PJ's Mom lives out there. Oh, okay. She took up this morning to go see her for, cuz we're not, we won't see her for Easter tomorrow. So, um, I'm gonna ask a stupid question.

Yeah.

I know nothing about fishing. Yes. This is all catch and

release. Do it. Yes. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Because you're gonna fish for things like fast. Nothing.

You don't eat, you don't eat like big math fast normally Anyway. And you know what Max, maybe somebody does. You can catch catfish. Yeah, he'll do that. But those all kind of taste like dirt.

Yeah. Cat's friend and Oh, so it's fried dirt.

There's nothing around here that I would even think think about Cat. No. Because of the drainage, like, you know. Yeah, no, it's total catching. Really. Got it. Yeah. It's just a pleasure. It's just for sport. Yep. Yeah. I

mean, when person, I would go fish, even when we would go fish out on like the Gulf Coast and stuff it, we always did catch it for this.

We would, when we first started, like going years ago, we'd go out and I'm like, yeah, we're gonna eat this. And then we'd like, you know, wrap it up and put it in the cooler. And then you get home and it's like frozen solid. It's a brick and you're, it's a fish brick. And you're like, well stick. Yeah. So, you know, you can thaw it out and then you can, you know, but you really ought to.

Golf cart. Yeah, golf cart. Um, you really ought to like play it before you put it in your cooler. Yeah. We just never did that. So then you end up with this kind of, I don't know. And we we're not really good at that stuff, so we just pivoted. It's, we're catch and release. It is a lot of work. Yeah. I'll just go to the restaurant and like, can feed me whatever.

Yes. I'll take that piece right there. Yeah. Yeah.

But if we charter, so for Max's birthday a couple years ago, we chartered a trip and PJ took him out and those

are always so much fun. Yeah, so much fun.

But it is a long

day. Yeah,

it is a long day. Yeah. They

did a half day. Well, those have cabins if you charter the right one.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and they caught a bunch of like red snapper and this big flounder. So we did, they, they brought some

Fishman Did they do one of those party boats or did they like charter, like an actual, like No, so it's like a, yeah, it's like

fisherman. It's like mm-hmm. It's a fisherman charter. Okay. Um, it's through friends of ours and, um, he has his own charter out there and they live out in Bradenton.

Yeah. So, um, he was supposed to go last summer and Oh, I can remember this. Yes. And it didn't work out, so we still owe him another trip.

Just like you owe Gabby a doll.

Yes. Just like we owe her a doll, which we did take care

of. Creepy. Now she's got one. Now she's got one. Not really any less creepy than the last one.

Oh, it's. Slightly less creepy. Yeah.

The hairs, he saw that different Chucky, that was that brown haired Chucky. Don't

they got, he's still in the back of my car. I haven't gotten rid of 'em.

Oh my God. We've got, well you saw the one they used for into the woods, kind like that. They were all kind of

creepy. Oh, we should donate.

We gotta go put that on somebody's, we with a little with Easter bunny

ears. Wait, you didn't

return that? I can't. I missed my Amazon window. So now I guess I only

have, you don't just send it back. They'll just take it. I've missed plenty of windows. Just send it anyway. And they, I still get the refunds.

Really? Do you? Yeah. Yeah, it'd be more fun to put it on

somebody's

doorstep. Yeah. I mean, I mean if you initiated the refund, knock and

then leave the run away and leave the dollar right

there. So next week we'll bring it on. Cuz I don't even have the car. I can't even run out there, but

yeah. Yeah. You gotta, did you, if you, if you started the initial refund?

No, I never. Oh, okay. Well then maybe passed it then. Oh yeah. I start it and then I never make it to the UPS store to drop it off. Yeah. But if I just go drop it off even four months later, which I just. For stuff that I had bought for Christmas that I ordered. And yeah, it either came wrong, um, or cuz like I ordered like these things.

Mm-hmm. And they shipped me like dove's, men's facial soap or something instead. And I was like, what the fuck? Amazon? Yeah. Do y'all not read? Um, yeah. So I had to return that and then Pinky ordered a skirt and it was the wrong size, so I had to turn that back in. Oh, okay. But um, yeah, it was like really super.

I just got the refunds. They didn't care. Yeah, they didn't care. As long as you send it in. Thanks, Amazon. Yeah. One time. But you gotta start that refund.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't, it's still in my family. Well, you just let me handle that stuff. Absolutely. Yeah. She's my, she's gonna be my

personal assistant. I'm gonna be the personal secretary.

I need a, I need a pa, an executive secretary. Just organizing all that. There you go.

Fabulous. Go with your talents. Go with your passions.

Go with it. Yeah, exactly. All right. We squirreled a

little bit. We did. It happened. So I, I was. Um, and wanted to do a little research too. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But it's not about like local stuff.

Right. So I did summer intensives research. Yeah. Right. And it's like seven pages of stuff, and that sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. Um, so there are, um, there are summer intensivess that are available. We've talked about this before, with one of our past guests, like for any age, pretty much. Mm-hmm.

You know, like five, six spin up. Mm-hmm. So, but generally speaking, I feel like you're doing summer intensive. You can do camps for the younger kids, but summer intensives are really more geared towards like, older kids. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Or you're really serious

about, yeah. Yeah. And I, and I think the reason behind that is as I, I get further along in my research, Is because they cost so much.

Yeah. They're expensive.

Um, yeah. They can be like up to anywhere to $2,500

if they buy, uh, more. Yeah. So, um, depending on cost of summer intensive programs for musical theater can vary widely from a thousand to $5,000. Wow. For a two week program. Yeah. Or more so. So some of the factors that affect that cost, obviously, um, more than just the actual, like, event itself is the location, the duration, the faculty they're bringing in, um, your own housing, your meals.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, if your parent is coming with you, like their housing and their meals, you know, uh, are there other activities that you wanna do? Because like if you go do, uh, the one that's in, hold on. There's one, we looked at New York, the one that's in New York. We have like sight scene. Package. So the Broadway Artist Alliance, that's the one in New York.

Mm-hmm. Um, highly respected summer intensive program for high school students Interested in musical theater. It's held in New York City. It offers several different sessions ranging from one to three weeks, weeks in length. So, um, yeah, I know they like, they do some stuff, but you also, you're in New York, right?

And you have like nights free. I think

the, the one that we looked at had, uh, two shows included with it. So it was like $2,500. It was a package. Yeah. And it was a child and a parent or a guardian. Yeah. And you got two shows. You got a couple dinners, but then you also had free time to explore. Yeah. Or you could pay additionally for some of the

torch.

So if you go up there, applications open, you can submit, um, a

video. Okay. Yeah. They're, they're in a, just as of Yeah. You have to audition to apply for 'em. Yeah. Um, then there's Destination Broadway, which I looked into a little bit too. Uh, pinky, I wanted her to do one of these this summer, but, um, it's as she's headed into Harrison.

Mm-hmm. Now, uh, I feel like she's really wanting to have some kind of free time in her summer. Yeah. That's, So I figured well, maybe she'll audition for, she'll do not audition. Maybe she'll do one of the summer camps. Mm-hmm. Instead this year. Or maybe we'll just let her have it free. I don't know. Yeah. So I'm pushing her.

She's gonna audition for nemo. She is going to, yeah. I've pushed a little bit. Chris pushed a little bit. I hadn't gotten a guess. Mm-hmm. But Chris said he had a yes. Okay, good. So he did it. And then when I went and picked up, that's confirmed. Mm-hmm. And then when Pinky, I picked her up from school one day and I told her, I said, Signed you up for, um, NEMA auditions.

Yeah. And she was like, and I was like, what? You didn't agree? And she's like, not yet. Oh Lord. And I was like, well, apparently you said something that sounded like a yes to daddy. So it happens. It was a flight knot of your head. You took a Z. Yes. Yes. Something like that. So fun. Once she gets there, she'll, I know.

But yeah, so, um, there are some other summer intensive programs that I found that are similar. Broadway Artist Alliance and Destination Broadway. Mm-hmm. So like those programs, they happen, they bring in people who have been on Broadway, like experts in that field. They teach the kids choreo, acting and dance, and I don't know

what else.

The case at the end. Mm-hmm. Do they? Yeah. Most of them. I don't know about those, but,

so camp what they do? Camp, camp Broadway. Was is one then Boston Directors and stuff? Oh, yeah. Agents. The program, camp Broadway is another one. Uh, the program offers a variety of summer camps and intensives for students age six to 17.

Okay. Students receive training, singing, training in singing, dance, and acting, and have the opportunity to form a final showcase. Oh, perfect. Um, also, I have five here. The French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts is in upstate new.

Okay.

That guy I know on his golf cart, that's like the loudest golf cart known to man.

I wonder if that's the one that goes all around around. It is. It's that shuttle swan shuttle or something. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. So Upstate New York offers a about variety of stuff, uh, including a triple threat program focuses on singing, dancing, and acting. That's cool. Okay. Uh, so three, the stage door mannered summer camp and Catskill Mountains of New York.

Yeah. Um, known for its focus on musical theater offers programs for students aged eight to 18. What that one, Steven, I didn't mentioned that one, did he? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They get singing, dancing, and acting training and the Catskill Jewish summer final showcase. Gorgeous. We used to do horse shows up.

That's why everybody like goes, right? Yeah. Cats skills are

super. I'm, I'm not

in that crowd. I'm me either. It's a different level. You can

ski there or you can like summer vacation

there. Okay. It's just really pretty. Um, okay. Number four. Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan offers a variety of programs for students interested in performing arts, musical theater, uh, intensive that focuses on singing, dancing, and acting.

And then five. Performing Arts project, summer program held at White Wake Forest University in North Carolina. So close. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Um, offers a variety of stuff for musical theater, so they're highly respected, apparently within the musical theater industry. Yeah. I don't know much about these, so like, seeing these come up, like, I'm like, oh, they're no to me.

Yeah. It's kind of cool. There's that one with, um, Kristen Chenoweth. Mm-hmm. That's in Oklahoma. Oklahoma, yes. Yes. Um, pinky really, really wants to do that. Uh, but we missed the window for that. Ah,

the deadline. Yeah. Did you try like, contact anybody? Because now

we're not gonna push, we'll, we'll do it another year.

Okay. Next year. Yeah. She just really wants to meet. That's like her Uhhuh. Yeah, her person, you know, her person that she really, her famous person, she really wants to meet Idol idolizes her and stuff. So yeah, I did a

little bit of research on, um, so school, so like once they kind of get into high school and.

It's like, okay, where can we start to learn? And maybe it's not a program where there's like casting directors and things like that there, but it's more of like training mm-hmm. Attached to these colleges. Right. So I looked at, um, one of the music directors from Destination Broadway from last year graduated from the Boston Conservatory.

Mm-hmm. And so I was like, oh, I know that's a really good school. So I looked. Um, just the other day, and they do have programs to for summer. Okay. The majority of them, you have to be 15 and older, so they have a whole summer, um, curriculum. Mm-hmm. So the Boston School of Music and the Conservatory have come together, like I'm assuming they used to be two separate entities and now they're one, according to what I read.

Um, anyway, so they have things like all straight from, even if you just do music Okay. Or musical theater, um, there's like four different things that you can do there in the summer, and it's either like one week or two week. But for the kids that are aged like 13 and 14 and up, they also have a youth musical theater program.

So there's one that's like the first week of August, like right before they go back to school. So I went to go and it's like a thousand dollars, 900 and some. Um, but Gabby's too young. She doesn't meet the age, so I had to enter a age acceptance waiver. Oh. Um, not acceptance. Accept,

uh, exception. Yes. Thank you.

My tongue was tied first. I

can't do that. That's yes. Exactly. So, and I had to send in a video. Okay. So we'll see. She's got a great resume, but that means something, you know. Yeah, definitely. Um, but it's not like there's no showcase at the end. Mm-hmm. It's just like strict training, like Yeah, yeah. Just training.

So I was looking at that, but I bet you there's a bunch of colleges. Um, well

for younger kids, was it Levine, the principal of Harrison, and he was talking before one of the perform, like before we saw Drowsy, I think about. Maybe it was that, or maybe it was at the parent meeting that we had, but he talked about how their juniors apply for scholarships through Harrison.

Yes, yes. And then they get to go to these summer intensives. Mm-hmm. On those scholarships. Mm-hmm. Yes. And do that to tell me about that. Juniors. Yes. Mm-hmm. Because I think her oldest daughter did that. Mm-hmm. Last year and got to go. Somewhere pretty awesome. I don't know. Penn State, I believe, was it Penn State?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Sounds, I believe. Yeah. Um, yeah. And do one of their summer intensive programs, which I thought, oh, well that's really cool. That's very cool. If Harrison does that, maybe other schools do too, right? Yeah. So you should definitely, definitely look at that. Not here. And you don't go to Harrison. Like you should definitely check with your high school and see what they offer.

And then I know that a lot of these programs offer scholarships as well to help bring the students in. Mm-hmm. So even though it may cost, you know, 2,500. It may not actually. Right. If you qualify for some kind of financial aid to kind of help you get there. So it shouldn't be a barrier to entry. No. Yeah.

Yeah. They're looking to be inclusive and bring people in. Yes. Can't otherwise afford

it. Right. Cause there's a lot of town out there

that it's true. Not they just can't get there. Yeah. And I know too, once you're that high up in school, like when you're junior and you do those a lot of times, that's a great way if you do their summer intensive to get through the pre.

Yeah, because they've seen you. Mm-hmm.

And so they know, they'll never say, yeah. I mean I think you still have to do the same stuff that, like when we had Kat on and she talked about mm-hmm. How her daughter was going through all of that. Mm-hmm. I think you still have to do all of that. However, comma, I know like Mikayla did, um, the summer programs for band up at fsu.

Mm-hmm. And they talked about how it's a great way to have your kid, you know, be visible to them because if they decided that they wanted to go into that, They already know '

em. It's the same idea, like Yeah, they do the camps cuz they get to know you

and then Absolutely.

Absolutely. Yeah. So it's like at what age, you know, I mean, Gabby's only 11, but what the hell?

Let's get us started, you know? Yeah. Might as well. Because it's the faculty that's teaching mm-hmm. Up there, you know, and if it's just she's getting tips and checks and you know, I mean, and a week in Boston's never bad. Never bad.

Just saying. Yeah.

Never bad. Well, and part of the reason I wanted to look through all this stuff is because if you kind of have an idea in your head that this is coming, Like next summer.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. You can start planning for it financially. Yes. Yes. That's very true. And there's all of these, like the strass season next year. Oh, oh my. We're talking about game. Good. Yeah. I, I wanna get season two. Yes. I've never wanted to, but they, here's their lineup next year. Yes. Um, at the end of this year, they've got Kill a Mockingbird.

And ain't too proud. Mm-hmm.

Jagged little pill. I know. I love jagged little pill. Yeah. Like I'm so she's touring again, by the way. Oh wow. I saw her last Ja little pill tour. Alanis Morse. Yeah. Yeah. And it was so good. Yeah. And I think the girl that I went with, I was working at, I was an animal trainer at the time, so this is years ago.

I was gonna say, um, a while ago. But, uh, but yeah, I went with her and I couldn't, I was saying the whole time, and I think she was just like, Kristen, seriously, shut the fuck up. I'm here for her, not you. Right, right. Yeah, I couldn't help myself. Right. She was that

person. I was like all glove.

Hi, I think you're supposed to sing a long note.

Yeah.

Concert seems more acceptable to sing along versus Absolutely. Versus a Broadway show. Yeah. Where you should shut

your trap. Sure. Yeah. Well, I mean, you can laugh and stuff. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. You should fucking sing, but you shouldn't. Let's do the whole thing.

So this Annie, is this, um, those ladies?

Oh God, I, is that like a touring show, you think? Yeah. Yeah. Perfect.

That lasted their season. That's awesome, Annie. Okay. Which is so fun for little girls to go

see. Yeah. Oh, that's the end of this season. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So next season

they've, The choir of man. I don't know anything about that. It's like a nine.

It's

okay. Skip that one. Moving on. Next one.

Needle juice. Yes. Funny girl Company. Yes. Luon

Rouge. Which we just saw, but I would, I would totally see it again.

See it again. Yeah. Girl from the North country. Yes. This is doubt. Oh yeah. Peter Pan.

And Cliff. Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's so much fun season,

so I wanted to kind of look ahead because that it's expensive to go see

these shows.

It. But if you do like a, a pass, a season pass for these, it was like a thousand dollars. Yeah, it

was a little bit over a thousand. Yeah. You have to pick like certain nights or more. So you can pick like a Tuesday night, a Wednesday night or something like that.

Yeah. But that's like your night to go, right?

For all of the shows, correct. Is what it looked like, is what it looked like.

I do not actually.

I don't know. I was looking at the Saturday matinee. Mm-hmm. I was like, that would be one. And I feel like we could probably always

hit Yeah. The problem is, and you get cast in a show and then you've got performance.

You know, it's like, yeah. It's that web and that puzzle. Mm-hmm. Of trying to coordinate everything. Mm-hmm. But the good news is Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando, it looks like they have some repeats. Yes. Some repeats. So they're doing, yes.

We were gonna go see Beetlejuice. There we're gone. Uh, you got your tickets?

Yeah. Yeah. We haven't actually bought our tickets. What night are you going? Uh,

it's Thursday night, the 29th, I think.

June 27th. So is that right after Nina wraps? Yeah. Yep. Ooh, you're gonna go

on a school night? It's in the summer. Summer. Oh wait, right?

Ah, yep. My

brain. Yep. Okay. It's summer. So they're, to finish out their year this year, they've got Chicago Mayfair lady and into the woods. Yes. And beet. And then next season they have Annie and Comes. Yeah.

Funny girl. So it's all, it's the same ones, right? Yeah, a lot of them. Aladdin. Oh,

okay. Mullan Rouge, jagged Little Pill.

This is Doubtfire Clue and Leis. Ooh. Next summer.

I know. So who do you get your path with?

I know, or do you pick and choose? Because that's, there's so many good shows coming. Yeah. So I, yeah. Little Scott needs to,

oh, and my theater where he even still hasn't. Their season for next year. I keep, Dan said it to, uh, everybody in n He did and

saw.

It's not on their website. I just, they need to get on that. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't talk about STTs.

Oh yeah, yeah. Skip that over. Okay. So their production's coming up. They've got this Sweet Delilah Swim Club Club coming up next weekend, April, uh, 14th and the weekend of April 21st, so two weekend. And then Jimmy Buffet's escaped to Margaritaville.

Yep. Is Kristen. Yeah.

Yeah. That'll be a fun one. He's changing that one. Yeah. That'll be a

fun one. Yeah, definitely. That'll be like

a party. Is Mr. Pat do in the music? He is,

yes. That's gonna be, we went and sat, um, so we had our Harrison like welcome meeting. Yeah. And um, I was just like, well, I'm gonna move up a little bit and sit closer to the front, but I don't like sitting in the middle.

Mm-hmm. So I was sitting off to the side. Turns out all the teachers were sitting right in front of us, first two rows, and we sat like third. And I was like, yo, hey Pat, you know, start getting looks from people around us, sitting down. And then the, the, the lamberts came and sat right in front of us. Oh my God.

We were there first. Whatever. I know you saw the text from Chris, like I picked to sit by them. That's not true. It was not done intentionally, but I don't mind. Yeah, they're very nice, very, all very nice people. And he sees the, like Michaela in his class, so that's always good. Yeah, that's always helpful.

I love that.

Um, yeah, in Margaritaville you can audition for if you are 16 to, it says 65 plus. So I guess,

you know, still walking. Yeah, all ages. Well, it's a kind of a jukebox thing. So Jimmy Buffet music. Yeah,

so those auditions are May 8th and ninth, and then callbacks on the 11th. So if you have an interest in that or you're a teenager looking for something to do

with your summer, it'll be fun.

I know there's a bunch of people in our normal circles that are all auditioning, right. Already. A fun cast. Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

We're gonna be in Virginia. We will miss that first weekend, but that's okay. We'll see it when we

get. Yeah. Well then Theater Winterhaven has hairspray. Yes. So July 13th to

August 6th.

I told Laura, I was like, you need to audition for that. Yes, I know. Yes. This would be so much fun for her. Yes. Oh my gosh.

Anyway, so there's so many good things to go see and do just in

our little area. Just I know. I mean, I say little, but like Orlando and Tampa too, you know? Yeah. The nice about where we're this stuff we are, it's like

we're so much the same distance one way or the other.

So you can go tamp, sort of

except Orlando. Orlando traffic. Yeah. That's a bitch I went to. I needed to get, um, oh, I went to go get the, the light that I used to do your head shots last week. I went to go pick that up. Good. By the way. Oh my gosh. She did a. So I went to go get that light and then the soft box for it.

And um, the best shop is, I have found, I know there's one that's over in Auburndale and it's okay, but my favorite shop has always been Colonial Photo and Hobby. Mm-hmm. So like I go there, but it's on Colonial Drive and Mills like downtown Orlando Drive, and it took me three hours to get there. Three, oh my gosh.

That is a normal, like 45 to 50 minute. Oh my God. But it was, I, as soon as I got on I four, it was traffic like creeping five miles an hour, 10 miles an hour the entire way. Three hours. That's what podcasts I could have fucking scooted there faster. You could have on the breakdown. Yes. Down I

four. Totally.

Would that Chucky doll strap that your scooter. Yes.

What coming outta her

backpack? No. No. Fucking Chuckie doll. You see, I saw something on Facebook the other day. Gosh. Wish she had that dog last night. I saw they found a Chucky doll on the bottom of a lake, like tied down back down there. And I was like, do not bring it up.

Uhuh. Don't tie it. Do that. Don't mess up. Leave that pepper down there.

Gosh. I'll see. All seen way too many like car films to know that that is bad news. Leave that alone. Yeah,

that's how it starts. Don't mess with. I don't know why this made me think of this, but I do wanna give a shout out to all those seniors that we know and love who are facing the wonderful dilemma of having multiple schools accept them.

Yes. And making the decision of where they're gonna go. Yeah. We're sending out our love to you guys and Absolutely. Lots of support. Just

we'll make the right decision. Yeah. That

you'll get a piece about where's the right place to go and it all falls into place and

whatever you choose will be the right choice.

Right. I mean, that's just how that goes, you know? Yeah. Make it.

I mean, what a great problem to have. I know. I'm

very excited for all of them. I know. And see where they end up

and see their

future. I can't even believe that they're like seniors in their, you know.

Yeah. I was trying to do the math cuz we've been at L C T four years, so I was like, okay.

They were like going into high school about the time. Right. You gotta use your fingers for that.

Yeah.

Same with ours. We

were there, 2019 was our first. Great. So 20 19, 20 20, 21. 2023. 23. It's five years. And you were there before us, so you're a lot longer than four.

Well, if you count. I

know, right? That, I mean I get

there was some 19, all of 20

downtime doesn't count.

It counts though cuz I, I did.

That year It does because Gabs was six and now she's

11 and we did Matilda that year, so that totally counts. That was my favorite four ever.

So it's third grade Manila Kate started. But like I was thinking back like our first shows with those kids and they were already so talented when we first met them back in eighth grade, or

I know when all those kids were in like middle school.

Yes. Yes. And then we went through their Harrison journey with that. Yeah. Like getting accepted and going through all of that. And then, We didn't get to see them so much at L C T anymore because they were busy doing high school things.

Mm-hmm. I know. But then we would go and see 'em and they would be in things like Hunchback and Yeah.

I know. Make you cry. They were so good.

I know. Well, I was looking at the Jazzy Chaperone cast, and they're only a handful of kids in that cast that have not done something at L C T that we've been a part of. Yeah. And that was really cool to be like, oh, I know all these kids.

Yes. Well, it's the whole watching 'em grow up thing too.

Yeah. Like yeah. I just love that. Yeah. So we're, they're not our kids, but they're kind of our kids, our kids.

Yeah. It's good stuff. Yeah. So excited for them. Yes. Choices they make.

Yes. Yeah. We, uh, we were gonna go see they had those kids like going up to sing at, um, yard on Mass. Mm-hmm. Up the road. Oh yeah, I saw that.

They did like a jazz night. Yeah. And then we forgot, oh. And saw the post the next day. I was like, damn it. Oh, was

that through

Harrison? Yeah. Yeah. So like the, the musical theater kids were going to go perform jazz up there. Cool.

Yeah. Yeah. They have their showcase coming up the end of this month

too. Yeah.

That's their last performance for a lot of those seniors. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so bummed that Pinky's gonna miss 'em by a year. Mm-hmm. I know. That would've been so great to see her on the same stage with some of the others, but Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Those are the great ones coming

up.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hopefully they'll announce their production soon for next

year. Yes. Yeah. I know. Everybody's kinda, I was um, fishing a little bit when we were up there. I was like, we know what it is yet. No, we don't.

So when will Harris have auditions for. The fall? The fall they do it four schools out, so they cast it four schools out.

Okay, gotcha. Which makes sense why the freshman incoming class, but it's like a part of that

because they weren't there for auditioning. TikTok makes sense. You know, because they're running out of time. It's April. Yeah, they gotta, they have to announce it and audition it and they cast it before auditions on

the calendar.

So you just don't know

what you're auditioning for yet. Oh, okay. What are the auditions? End of April or,

uh, I think so. Maybe beginning of, I'd have to look at my, you know, I live day by day, so Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a future problem. I gotta

worry about this weekend. I know. I always say Future me problem, future me's a little fucked, but it's fine.

Figure it out. Figure it out. We get there. We always do. I know. Pinky was like asking me if we were gonna do an egg hunt. I was like, now you're old. Oh, you

kidding? I asked my kids. Is the Easter Bunny coming like, uh, Huh.

So, yes. Well, Maritan did, uh, like an Easter egg hunt for the kids yesterday. So I sent her the link and I was like, scoot down bed.

Get down there. Why don't you go? You wanna, you wanna hunt for some Easter eggs? They're doing it on the lawn. I was driving here. She's sleeping. Yeah, she didn't, she did sleep right through it. But no, I sent it to her the day before. Oh, that's gotcha. And yeah, she just didn't get up. Well, I

drove past one on the way to pick you up today and there were some teenagers out there hiding eggs.

I'm using air quotes cuz they were standing in the middle and they were throwing the eggs in different directions.

Land they're gonna Oh my god. Yeah.

As kids. Utes, Utes, Utes. There's three Utes, three youth. What's, what's a ute? What's

a yute? What's a grit?

Oh my gosh. Oh geez. That's

a great movie too. It is. But yes, we have lots of

fun stuff going on. I know. Happy Air Sistered everyone

tomorrow to be past Easter by the time you hear this,

but yeah, it'll probably go out Tuesday.

Yeah. What are you guys doing? It'll be fun. Just the four of you. So

yeah, just the four of.

Um, we'll go to church in the morning. Our kids, we probably will do a little Easter thing at the house. Mm-hmm. We'll hide some

stuff. Kids are still young. Yeah. They still

want that Easter bunny, you know,

couple more years. Our house. It's excusable for a couple more years. Yeah, yeah. We'll give it a little, I'm less convinced about Lily Kate.

She'll hang on to the bitter end. She'll be at the nursing home being like, where's my egg hunt? I need

it. I need it. I think you'll be right there beside her. I stopped getting these, the egg hunts, but

I didn't stop asking for 'em. No.

She'll tell her therapist. Yeah, she's, she's like almost 17. I know.

Well, there was a year not too long ago where my mom tried not to do stockings, and my brother and I rebelled hard against us.

What? Yes. For us. You still do kids?

We made her, you still make your mom give you stock stuff? Stalking, stocking stuffers.

Yes. Wow. Absolutely do. And it's Fanta, we always say get an orange in the bottom of it because do you guys, your family ever did this? Okay, so gra my grandparents were depression era kids and they had zero money golf cart again.

Yeah. So they always got, they, we lived in South Florida. They always got an orange in the bottom of their stock to kind of fill it up. So there's So that's kind family. They got family tradition. Wait to 'em. Yeah, they do. It's always getting an orange wait

in the toe. Mm-hmm. Yep. Let's slide up in

there.

Exactly. Did I ever tell you guys how I got proposed to on.

No, you got proposed on Christmas. Oh, well, detail, detail.

I didn't buy Chris.

Really? You love that hanging? I'm like, is there something else? So I was, I was working at Discovery Cove. I had a shift because I never had the holidays off. Right? Like, you always get one, but I always got like New Year's, which I really never cared about.

No, who wants? Um, but yeah, so. I had to work on Christmas and I'm getting ready and got my, you know, discovery Cove button down on feeling dapper as always and ready to roll in. And Chris grabs the stalking and is like, don't say I never gave you anything. Oh my God. Tosses it in my lap. I'm so romantic. I know.

He's such an asshole sometimes. Anyway, so I'm like, Okay, let's do this. Yeah, pull the thing down. I'm like, it's the blah blah blah that I bought for myself because I always do stocking stuffers and he never fucking does. I get all the way to the bottom and in the bottom is the ring. Oh my goodness. I pull it out and he had told me for years, cuz we were like dating for like five or six years before he proposed.

Mm-hmm. Ah. And he always had told me he would never do it on a holiday. Oh right. Yeah. So I'm definitely not expecting it. Right. That's right. Five or six years worth of that. You believe it. Right. So I pull it out and I look at it and he's like, So there, so then there's

that. He actually asked, you're like, oh, Santa wants to marry.

He like,

will you marrying me? No, he didn't. I don't think he did. He definitely didn't do one knee. No knee. I don't think he asked the question either. He's just there. Yeah. He's like, he there.

Yes. How very hung solo of him. Yes, exactly.

He puts a little note on Wear Me.

Oh yeah, man. Give

us a lot of pressure around proposing.

Yeah. Well and he definitely, I mean, we dated for a really long time's, long time, and it was always like, my parents were the worst about it cuz they'd be like, oh, why would you buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? I'm like, stop fucking calling me a cow.

Yeah. But yeah, so that's, that's my, that's my story. That's a good Chris story.

That's a good Chris story. We'll have to bust his

chops about that. Yeah, definitely.

Should have given you a little Easter egg with it in it. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, lots of variations

on that thing. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Yeah, so I'll do blog posts with some of this cuz I've got more information.

Like how, um Okay. Yeah. Like what do they provide, what does summer intensives and stuff provide?

There's like camps in New York. They, I wonder if they're sleepaways. I bet you they are, huh? Like get probably

and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Um, there're, there're there are, I have a whole other list of like 13 other summer intensives for high school students, specif.

Um, as well that are just kind of all around the country. Uh, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. Um, what's ct? No, Connecticut. Forget Connecticut. I forget who. I was talking to. California.

They said that Juilliard does one in Orlando.

Really?

Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it is.

That would would be an intense, I also did, like, if you're researching them, like what?

There's the golf cart. Fucking golf cart.

It's a really good time. Golf.

He seriously, he's

cruising off the back. It's empty though. They

drive. I think they, they have a stop right next to L C T. They turn around and they come back. Oh, okay. They take, they're taking the people from, to that end.

I've never seen anybody, I haven't seen anybody in it.

I have not today, but I have in, in the past. So like, you know, what do you, and then things like what do you, um, how do you determine if it's a good fit for your child? Right. You know, I

think they do ages 12 to 18.

Nice. Who knew? Yeah. Well, apparently you did.

Well, yeah, but I didn't know all the details I had just like, yeah, I, it joed something

in my brain.

And then if you're like researching the programs, like what are the things you should consider about the program and all of that. So like, I'll put some of this in a blog post with the stuff, information that you also got about our local stuff and yeah, got a lot going on. Always

nice to the 22nd, but they do drama, piano, voice, and then dance and musical theater.

So they separate it. I don't know where. I don't know. I mean, the application deadline's long gone, but yeah, I mean that's kind of cool. Yeah, I know. Oh, dormitory housing. Wow. Okay. Yeah, so anyway, there you go. Pretty cool. Yeah, there's a lot out there. You try to

dig in, check the colleges that are near you too, cuz a lot of them do it.

Mm-hmm I'm sure. Yes. Yes.

A lot of them do. And they'll offer them, you know, like I said, the one that I saw was age 15, but a lot of 'em have 'em for even like a little bit younger. Mm-hmm. You know, like your freshmans, your 14 year olds. Yes.

Dan, you're, you ain't trying to slide a 10 year old in there. She's 11.

She's 11. It starts at like 13 or something like that, but it's different. It's a youth one. It's not Oh, okay. It's not the same one. It's a different gear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We think they need to separate those out. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I think you

have to. I mean, it's totally different. Well, and that's

what LCT is doing this summer, which

is smart.

Yeah. But Gabby's excited cause she has to be with the older kids this time. Oh, that's right.

Oh yeah. Because she's not 10. Because

she's not 10. Kristen, she will tell you

all day long now I have two

teenagers in the house, so I know you

do. 13.

Wow. If one's not having a moment, the other is yes.

Way goes.

You know? Pretty much. It's okay. They keep you on your toes. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. Keep us yawn. All right. All right, guys. Are we done here? Yep, we're done. I think so. Talk to you guys next week. All right guys. Have a great week. Happy you Easter. Don't be haters. Yeah, can we just be kind? This hiding nonsense is just ridiculous.

Just love people for who they are.