Wow I Haven't Posted In Awhile

So I have been beyond busy for awhile. I am really sorry about not posting for so long. So now I plan on making up for it. I might not remember everything that happened but I will give you a general overview of the past two weeks.

So Greeley, CO was a fun city. I stayed with four guys with a lady named Shirley. This was a challenge because of the fact that she was a vegetarian, this was very different. I haven't gone an entire week without red meat until then.

We had a show in Greeley and I think it went really well. The audience loved it which makes the whole difference for our shows. We have to have energy to make a good show and the audience in Greeley fed us energy the whole night. My mom, brother, and sister came to Greeley and this was wonderful because I did miss them as much as I try to hide it.

After the performance in Greeley we had to drive back to Denver to catch a plane. I did not enjoy our forty hour day. I was so tired that I could barely move. When we arrived in Miami we found out that they didn't have enough host families for us. This really made me mad since I wanted a host family in Miami, this turned out to be okay since we stayed in a hostel for the weekend. By Monday we all had host families to go home with.

We had two outdoor performances in Miami which were really fun. Both performances drew a pretty big crowd and they loved the show. On our day off I went with my roommate to the Metro Zoo. This zoo is huge it was so much fun, the only problem was that my camera ran out of batteries so I didn't get to take pictures of all of the cool animals.

So that was my catch up for now. I will write more for later in the week.

Sick/Run Through

So recently I have acquired a wonderful cold that is just really ruining my days. I can still dance but I have coughing fits after every time we run a song. This is getting rather annoying but life goes on.

For the past couple of days we have been doing run through of our shows about once a day. This is really good for us since we are finally starting to piece together the show that we have been working so hard on. Every time we run a show we put up a show list so that we know what we are doing for the run through. As of the past two runs of the show I have been dancing in seven specialty dances which takes a lot of energy. Surprisingly I am not singing at all in the show as of now. This has me a little confused since I was pulled aside in the beginning quite a bit to sing certain songs. I can't really complain though because I am dancing so much that I would hardly have time to sing anything anyway. The dancing is starting to come together I believe that by Wednesday, which is our performance for our host families, the whole cast should have a pretty decent show put together not perfect by any means but presentable.

The other day I was walking out of our room where we have lunch and our cast manager, Jen Moody, started talking to me and she said that I was looking really skinny. I went home that night and weighed myself and discovered that I have lost almost thirteen pounds since the start of staging. I am really loving that since now I am starting to get back into shape.

Stuart