I Sat By Sponge Bob Square Pants’ Granny

My friend Amy turned 40 this summer. She has lots of mixed emotions over it, but I think she is FABULOUS at 40. I look at her and see how much she has accomplished this year and I am so proud of her. I can’t wait to hear all about her trip to Mexico.

Anyway, Amy loves The Wizard of Oz, so for her birthday, her sister bought us tickets to see WICKED. And let me tell you right NOW if you have not seen it, you need to RUN -not walk-RUN right out and get tickets to see it. TWICE. You need to see it TWICE. I thought I was going to DIE because it was so marvelous.

Leah kept apologizing that we were in the nose bleed section. But I decided that there wasn’t a bad seat in the house. We could hear everything-I could see everything (exept when the dude in front of me kept leaning foward like a freaking rocking chair) and it was amazing. We saw it at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. I was LOVING it. It was dark and not exactly new–but very retro and historic and awesome. All at once it was all of those things. OH and we ate sushi at the Dragonfish asian cafe. I think I was in sushi heaven.

During the show I look over and there is the OLDEST lady sitting next to me. She has her little opera glasses to get a closer peak (Think Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman–Oh look! A band!) She also had some serious brown lip liner going on and wrinkles so deep that Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies looked like an Oil of Olay model. She also took her shoes off during the show and wrapped a crotcheted shawl around her shoulders. I am trying to remember exactly what color her hair was dyed–an auburn-y brown over gray. So you know, pink. it was pulled back in a bun and she had thick black glasses. She may have been a bit asian as well—

So as we are leaving, Leah looks and said, wow. That woman got comfy and took off her shoes and all that. I said–she wasn’t happy when we left to use the restroom and seemed a bit put out during intermission. (Hello, that is why they call it intermission–so you can tinkle without getting in people’s way!) And then…Leah said–Yeah, well, she looks like Sponge Bob Square Pants’ Gramma.

OMG.

She did. She totally did.