Wicked & Cirque du Soleil

What a fabulous Saturday I had with my friend Brooke!!!! It started when we drove down to LA and I got a bit lost but still knew where I was going, or at least how to correct it. We wanted to grab a bite to eat before the show so we stopped at this hot dog stand called Scooby's on Hollywood Blvd, which was quite tasty. We then made our way to the grand Pantages Theater and with awe and excitement watched WICKED!!!

For those of you who don't know what this is, you are missing out. It is the story before and leading up to the movie The Wizard of Oz, the classic that everyone knows and has seen. It is the story of Elphaba, commonly known as the Wicked Witch of the West, and how she becomes viewed as wicked. It explains how she became green, how her and Glinda the Good Witch used to be good friends. There are some interesting love interests, the fight between good and bad and who gets to decided what is good or bad, and is filled with inspiring and delightful music the whole way through. If ever given the opportunity to witness this beauty of a show, take it!

We then made our way down to Inglewood for our next big show. We ate dinner at Denny's and had some extra time to kill so we decided to drive down to the beach. Oh how refreshing and pleasant the beach is. I just love being there and it renews me everytime.

Back at The Forum we parked the car and made our way to the Cirque du Soleil show, Corteo. Eagerly we entered the Big Top and were shown to our seats, well at least the seats we assumed were ours. The show started and we were loving it but then about 20 minutes into it, an usher came to our row and asked to see our our tickets. She motioned for us to get up and come to the aisle. So looking like fools we did, wondering the whole time what as going on. She said that we were in the wrong section and that the people whose seats we were in were really mad. Well sorry, but 1. the workers are the ones who put us there, and 2. if you show up 20 minutes late to a show you automatically forfeit your seats. Sorry buddy, your fault! It actually made us quite peeved that they would make us get up 20 minutes into the show looking like idiots, when it wasn't our fault. Anyways, the rest of the show was spectacular and mind blowing. We sat in amazement at what some people can do with their bodies and there were many times where we actually gasped with astonishment and excitement.