Sunday, March 8, 2009

News from Vancouver

We have had a nice week here in Vancouver. The weather has been really nice all week, although it was snowing this afternoon after the show.

Wednesday, Madison (Annie), Mikey (Sandy), Patrick (Mikey's handler) and I had press all day. We went to 3 TV stations and did interviews. The highlight of the day was watching Madison get so excited about having makeup put on her. She thought it was so cool we had to take time between interviews so that she could remove the makeup from the previous station so that she could have it applied again at the next station. We also were in a greenroom at one of the stations with a massage chair. Madison and I thought was pretty cool. The best part was at the last station where they had a phone that we could use to call anywhere in Canada or the US for free so we all used it to call home. Also, one of the guest on that show was the owner of a Dairy Queen talking about making Blizzards. They had some new flavors they were advertising including "Cotton Candy." Afterwards we all got to make and eat Blizzards. That alone made the long day worth it.
Thursday a bunch of us went to a place called the Capilano Suspension Bridge. It was really neat though a bit overpriced. It was a forest area with bridges between the trees and a really long suspension bridge over the river. It was well worth the time and effort to see.
Friday I went to Stanley park which is the largest city park in Canada at over 1000 acres. It is on the ocean and is very beautiful. I only saw a small portion of the park but it was truly breathtaking. I then went for a walk on the beach. This has to be one of the few places where you can walk on the beach in the morning, play a round of golf and go snow skiing in the afternoon all without spending more than 30 minutes in the car.

There were many other things to do and see here that I didn't get to enjoy. After all I was here to do 8 performances of "Annie." Ah well, a great excuse to bring the family here on vacation someday.
Talk to you from Edmonton in a few days.

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