Handel's Messiah!

Ok, so we got a call yesterday afternoon letting us know that there were some extra tickets at the church for Handel's Messiah at GCU that evening if we were interested in going, we decided to go. After thinking about it a few moments we thought about Rachel trying to sit through the entire production............NOT going to happen! When I was studying music for my Associates Degree I sang in the college's Masterworks choir and performed Handel's Messiah one year, so I knew first hand that it would be extremely boring for a 3 year old after about 10 minutes. After calling around to find a babysitter, hopefully, we couldn't find one since everyone had plans (it's that time of year), so we decided to go ahead and introduce little Rachel to another part of the Arts. Granted, we have taken her to various Musical drama productions, we have never taken her to the symphony or anything like it, we just figured we'd wait till' she's like 5.

We got all dressed up to go last night and Rachel was soooo excited! She wanted to wear her "fancy" coat and all=) Of course times have changed for some and folks just don't dress up for these events like they used to, but we still do, it's fun =) We arrived and were greeted with smiles and "awe, how cutes" when Rachel would say hello to everyone. Just for the record, Josiah was hungry and oblivious to anything else! When the lights went out and the music started Rachel was entertained for exactly 23 minutes! Then she was fidgety and eventually DONE! So of course at intermission we saved her and whisked her away to go look at Christmas lights =)

All in all it was a enjoyable evening though. We ended the evening by going to Village Inn and eating a slice of pie while discussing with Rachel our plans for Christmas. She is well aware we are going to Disneyland and seems to think that we are going to eat at Mickey's house.............hmmm fancy that!