The Best Of Both Worlds

We have an eleven year old girl in our family. That means that when we heard about the new Hanna Montana 3-D Concert movie, we knew we had to go. And just for fun, we brought along the rest of the family and a couple friends... (Andy was more than happy to give up his ticket - in his own words, "Oh, I know the songs. I just don't like them.")

So here is the gang - minus me, taking the picture, in line for the opening night show last Friday night!

What you can't see in the picture is how close we came to missing it all together.

It wasn't a matter of tickets, we'd bought them weeks in advance. We bought them for the 6:30 show, which required a delicately orchestrated plan: I would leave work a little early to go get Tyler for the weekend, Cindy would have a friend cover for the last hour of the daycare, and we'd meet up around 5:30 at the theater in Auburn.

All was going according to plan, I was just pulling in to Tyler's mom's driveway when my phone rang. It was Cindy - I thought she'd be calling to say that she was on her way and everything was great. Instead, she said that she had fallen down stairs at the school, and had quite likely broken her foot.

Wha-wha-whaaaaat????

There's not much that's as frustrating as having your wife injured while you're far enough away to be completely unable to help. So I grabbed Ty and headed for home, calling the theater on the way to see if they'd be willing to swap our tickets for a later show. Long (and frustrating) story short, they did! Cindy got out of urgent care with an inconclusive x-ray, and the doctor promising a 95% chance that her ankle is NOT broken, and we headed up for the 9:45 show. Made it! And Li'l Miss Cyrus puts on a heck of a show... The manager of the theater came out before it started and reminded us all that it IS a movie, so you still can't take pictures, block the aisles, etc... But that it is also a concert, so you CAN get up and dance, sing along, scream, etc.

Kaylee's voice is still raspy. Them Jonas Brothers were more than she could handle...

Good times, and Cindy survived. Though she slept all day Saturday as her body began rebuilding itself...