Nutcracker!!

Work has had one focus recently... The Nutcracker!! Well we opened this weekend and all was fantastic!! Plenty of background technical things to give me a few headaches, but when it came down to it, the performers were wonderful, the audiences were appreciative, and the reviews are good! Here's the one from the San Jose Mercury News, and here's another.

Today while I was working the Ballet Boutique our last customer of the day was a Bay Area sports hero, Mr. Steve Young! I was very excited to see that he and his family chose to come to Ballet San Jose for their Nutcracker experience. He was very gracious, taking lots of photos with fans, including mine!

Ballet San Jose has had a fun contest for patrons to submit Nutcracker themed photos of their kids or pets. These pictures are my submissions, even though I was ineligible to win tickets, a backstage tour, or the other goodies, I couldn't resist taking the photos of my pets.

 

 

 

I will continue to live in Nutcracker land right up until Christmas Eve. I hope that coming soon (maybe this week) I will get the chance to Christmasfy my own home... no big gifts this year, but I still want to find time to put up our tree and the lights outside.