Changes...

In my last posting I mentioned about getting a motorcycle...

Well, this is me in my father-in-law's garage, but I have been out on it but due to the really icy roads, I haven't been out
for a couple of weeks. It's a lovely Suzuki Marauder and I love it. I'm calling it Juanita!

If that wasn't enough... Chris has finally given in and allowed me to get a dog. We were going to get one as soon as we returned from our travels, but as we were going to South Africa for a couple of weeks, it wasn't very fair on the dog. So last Monday we got Willo from the dog pound and she is slowly getting used to life in the Bracken household and we're slowly getting used to her! We had her dancing in the kitchen tonight!
It was very difficult trying to pick a name for her, but from the seven we'd come up with, Willo seems to have stuck. Our Niece, Emma, wanted to call her Crispie, but that was met with a quick No!!!!

Here are a couple of pics from when I took her out for a walk at the pound... She's a lot happier now despite being spayed and being given her inoculations!

Stomp!

It's been a little while since I've put up a post and although there have been lots of different things I could have blogged about, the time has passed and so it's become irrelevant. (Me getting a motorcycle... settling back into home life...)
But not this time!

For various reasons we purchased some 'Stomp' tickets for Chris' Nephew Nathan and for my parents for it's opening performance. Chris and I had the delight of seeing it being performed just off Broadway in NYC with our couch-surfing host Barbara, so when we saw it was coming to the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, we just had to go.

Despite my concern about the physical size of the building (being quite a big) the interaction of the audience was actually better than that of the small theatre we'd originally seen it in.

The opening act with the brushes was so 'hard hitting' that they broke about 5 of the 'brooms'!! It was over 90 minutes of constant entertainment and some additional moments of side splitting laughter.

Everyone who went enjoyed the performance and I was pleased that we had stayed with Barbara and her husband Matt for us to have been able to see the show in the first place to realise just how good it would be.