Okay, maybe I lied.

So I didn't get back to you on the fascinating details of my trip. Don't judge me. I'll give you a quick run-through now:

Marly's Play: Amazing. Seriously. Tracey and I literally sat through like half of it with our mouths open, occasionally turning to eachother to say, "wow!" or simply smiling with delight. Thank you Marly!!!

Amusing Children: Alright, so they weren't that amusing, obviously, since I can't think of any really good stories now. Although one child, Gannon was his name, improvised a five-minute monologue to me, filling me in on the entire history of Junior Theatre, none of which happened to be true. But don't tell him I know.

Entertaining Banana Puns: Every play the kids wrote this year had to, among other requirements, use a banana somewhere in their script. Which immediately makes half the plays involve monkeys, but you know. Oh, and, just to make this next part slightly more entertaining, you should know that there are two classic characters that appear in almost every Drama Day Camp script: ninjas, and aliens. My class wrote a play involving ninja space monkeys. (Is it too soon to whisper "Tony?") Anyway, this is one thing that I actually added to the script myself when I was typing it up at 10:00 at night: See, the kids wanted this blind character to at the end reveal that he was not, in fact, blind, but was a secret agent, stopping the ninja space monkeys from stealing the Magic Banana. (I know. Possibly the next Neil Simon or Arthur Miller will emerge from this year's Drama Day Camp.) So, at the end, he whips off his sunglasses and says, "Hold it! I'm an undercover agent for the Banana Republic!" Whoo-hoo-hoo, ho ho ho, hehehe...Okay, I guess you had to be there.

Country Music Concerts in Ungodly Heat: Actually, with a header like that, there isn't that much else to explain. Yay for Mississippi Valley Fair, boo on 100+ degree heat index.

Quaint Anecdotes of Random Silliness: I discovered that Family Guy, which I used to abhor, actually just requires that I be in the right mood, because I watched an episode with Cindy and it was absolutely hilarious. I met up with a really good friend of mine whom I have not kept in touch with and we talked and laughed and it was really fun. I finally saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Johnny Depp is a genius. I visited Davenport's new art museum, and, though one part in particular was amazing (the boy's choir in complete surround sound), it was mainly disappointing. My car wouldn't start after I stopped it to get something to eat on the way back home, and that was upsetting, but I gave it time to rest and then it started fine, so Thank You God! And I spent way too much money.

So there you have it, folks! My Quad-Cities/Drama Day Camp odyssey!

Post Script: To fill you in on my continuing battle against spam blog comments (The War On Terror--oops! sorry, I mean The Struggle Against Commercialism), I finally found a place in setup where it says something like, "word verification for comments" or whatever, and so now when you comment you have to prove you're not an evil spam robot by typing those weird looking letters and numbers. I think. Anyway, when I checked today, someone had sent me a three page stock report. As a comment. It was rifrickindiculous. So hopefully this discovery will cut down on such extremist activities.