Memorial Day = Shakespeare?

Yesterday was Memorial Day, and my family decided to use the day off of school to go down to Cedar City, and Chrisser and I went with them.  My brother who is a junior in high school has been studying Shakespeare in English class, so we got a private behind-the-scenes tour of the theatres used in the Shakespearean Festival so he could write a report on them.

The Randall L. Jones Theatre was the first one we saw.  It wasn't super exciting, being just a normal theatre and all, but it was cool since we got to go backstage to where they keep costumes and stuff.

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure if this picture was taken in that building or another one that was mostly workshops and stuff.  But you get the point.  Anyway, our tour guide saved the best for last.  Behold the Adams Theatre:

This theatre was once the closest replica of the Globe Theatre in England that Shakespeare's plays were originally performed in, and back in the early '80s the BBC came and filmed some of their Shakespeare series here.  It was really cool.  I don't really know what else to say about it, so here are some more pictures.

On the way home we passed Holden, which is where several of my ancestors are buried, so we made a stop there, too.

Weddings!

So I haven't posted in a while because we haven't really done anything blog-worthy.  But I feel bad not posting, so I'll pretend that this post is going to be exciting, even though I didn't have a whole lot to do with it.  Last night Chrisser and I went to a wedding reception.  The groom was in my ward a while ago and was roommates with my best friend at the time, and he is also an animation major so Chrisser knows him from classes.  I ended up helping decorate the car because the best man, who was the roommate that was my best friend back in the day, was stuck in the receiving line the whole time so he had his wife get a couple of us together to do it for him.  His wife was the mastermind behind the majority of these drawings, but I'm going to post them anyway:

She drew Mickey and Minnie because they are going to Disneyland for their honeymoon, and Sonic the Hedgehog because they (especially Landon) are extremely into video games and Sonic is one of Landon's favorites.  I think "Falcon Punch" is also some sort of move in a video game.  There's also a little Pac-Man on the back window that I drew (though someone else suggested it).  This was my first time decorating a getaway car, and it was fun.  Especially since they didn't have anything really annoying or embarrassing planned.  I've heard so many horror stories about car decorations that I was very glad that no one touched mine and Chrisser's car at our reception!  But this one seemed nice enough :)