I'm in heaven

[Stoday]

Of course.

I drank the contents of the bottle yesterday. 

[paris]

 

Oh dear Rerun! What a shame! I was 45 before I started to enjoy ballet. I can remember when it just went click! when I watched "Ghost Dances" and I suddenly realised what I'd been missing for years. As for the Nutcracker, I saw it near to a Christmas ten years ago at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow. I found it beautiful and exhilarating, so much so I wept.

The Messiah is such an emotional work it leaves me breathless. And I'm not a believer. I would have thought Christians would find even more in the work than I do.

Give it another try, Rerun. I bet you didn't care much for the first beer you drank, but learnt to enjoy it. Same with ballet.

One of Beth's best friends was trained with the Bolshoi ballet. Sergei is amazing. After leaving Russia, he danced with the Vienna ballet,then North Carolina recruited him. Now he dances with the LA ballet. The training he got as a child puts him in the top group of male dancers. He dances in the movie Benjamin Buttons.  He introduced my grandchildren to the Nutcracker and we go every year. You have to see a good ballet company perform it-- it makes a difference!    Now, all I need is just a little sip of that incredible wine!

[Mimi]

My Mother wanted the Messiah played at her funeral.  So as the family got up to leave the organist blasted Halleuiah, Halleuiah to the church's roof.
It was beautiful.
I like a good glass of wine, too.  We usually have some at Christmas and New Year's.
As far as Tiger, the last I heard was 11.

[dwcrawford]

People (family and friends) seemed to think if you're an opera fan and other classical music forms that you instinctively like ballet.  Therefore I was always elected to escort the kids, neighbors  kids, etc. to the Nutcracker.  I enjoyed it a few times but.. eventually it sort of made my butt feel very much like the dialysis chair does.  Dance as a performing art is great in small doses but I need a little vocal to go with it.

Bach 20, Tiger 11 and counting (different questions)

Come on folks, you can get a really nice bottle of wine for under 50 bucks.   Hey, lets all  go buy one and open them Christmas Eve and collectively toast our kidneys!  And Rerun, beer is coming into its own in the gourmet realm now.  If you like beer, go for it.  Besides,  my renal dietitian has suggested I drink a beer nightly.  (I would except it is way too fattening.

Sorry about the calendar miscalcutions.  I'm not an expert  Someone said once that an "ex" means a "has been" and a "spurt" is a "little drop of water". 

Just early morning comments from a not so wide awake COLONIST.

[Rerun]

    

[looneytunes]

OK, OK...as long as the bottle is under $50 and still considered heavenly...I think I may open a nice Chardonnay by Kendall Jackson...not too pricey but at least it still has a real cork in it.   (a bottle I've been hoarding, a 1996). 

[Poppylicious]

Your expensive wine would be wasted on me Stoday; I'm usually more than happy with a cheap bottle of Tesco plonk.  I'm so very uncultured.  (And I can't stand opera.) 

[Stoday]

Pops — you sound like Mrs Stoday. She prefers Tesco's Fleurie, a cru Beaujolais at £6 a bottle to my grande cru Burgundies.

Before I got too sick, I took her to Paris to see the ballet "L'histoire de Manon" at the Paris Opera House. She didn't like it at all. She was devastated at the end of the second act because she thought it had ended but found it had not. It was the start of the second interval.