What's New in October

Life has been busy as we have been moving and working. On October 1, Lyric Opera opened it's season with the production of Verdi's Macbeth. It's a fantastic performance, and has been great to work on and help put together.

Opening night is a big evening at the opera house, it is a formal event, with appetizers in the lobby, and gorgeous flower arrangements, then the performance. During the festivities, the company hires photographers to go around photographing all the fabulous opera goer's. My job for the evening was to follow the photographers and to get the names and locations of the guest photographed. Below is a picture of our lobby during the opening reception. So much fun, and it looks great!

I had a dress malfunction and when I arrived my dress was not suitable to wear for the evening, at the last minute the wardrobe department dressed me in a black gown and added a pink sash. They basically sewed me into it, and I went to work! Those ladies are amazing. Here, I am posing with one of my co-workers, Elise, we were photo captioners together.

After the performance, we have a large opera ball with dinner and dancing for patrons who would like to spend several hundreds of dollars to dine with the director and cast of the production. It's a big deal, and of course the photographers were there, so I had to be there too. One of the perks for working such a long evening in an evening gown is eating the food! Below is a pic of the dessert plate, with a chocolate sword in honor of Macbeth. :)




Here are some of my co-workers sitting together, you can see the room decorations and how fabulous it turned out!


The whole week before, Ruben and I moved out of our old place, and into our new one. Below are some pics of us in our new apartment putting our stuff away. Ruben has been amazing in this whole process, and has worked very hard during this move!

In our new kitchen. It has a bar with bar stools!

The dogs love the house, cause it's long, and they can chase each other from one end of the house to the other. :)

We also have a dining room and a living room!

This is me in the dining room, and you can see the hallway to the bathroom and kitchen, which have nice tile floors. SO much better than old linoleum!


We also had the chance this week to see the performance of "Candide" at the Goodman Theatre on Wednesday night. Working there has been a great opportunity for me, especially having the chance to see their performances for free!

It was a really great performance, and we had a wonderful time sitting through it, even though it was 3 hours long. :)

After the performance we were hungry, so we stopped by our favorite pizza joint. I snapped a picture of it, cause it's located in the Mexican neighborhood of the city. I love the Aztec mural painted on the walls, and I'm becoming friends with the Mexican men who make this awesome pizza. :)

Life is a bit hectic, but we're having a great time with each other. I actually picked up an opportunity to work as an assistant for an event company doing a wedding in North Eastern Indiana all day on Saturday. And Ruben picked up another gig for next weekend. So, we are excited to be blessed with so much work!

I sent out an mass email to the family with our new mailing address and phone numbers. (I have gotten a new phone line as well this month.) Let me know if you did not receive the email, and I will send along our information.

Much love ,

Shannon