remember how cloudy and rainy it was on sunday? well, not yesterday. although it was still pretty warm at 7:39p, at least it wasn’t as humid.

between the two gentlemen of Verona, i truly believe that it was the dog that stole the show. since photography (flash or otherwise) is not permitted i’m unable to show you the cool canine. you’ll just have to see this play and hope that the dog that is cast for that production is as awesome as this one.

11:00p. as soon as the play let out, i immediately made a beeline to my car to begin my exodus. i love night driving. its so much cooler… temperature-wise. however the biggest difference between day and night driving is that all the beautiful scenery is gone. the stealthiness of the scenery is compounded by the fact that there is no light pollution save for the road reflectors and occasional signs. but i think that the effect is cool.

4:30a. i rolled into my garage this morning and freaked myself out because i couldn’t find my housekeys. serves me right for putting it in a different compartment of my bag the night before. you’d think that i’d be so tired that i’d just quickly shower off the travel grime and sleep. i was tired, but it still took me awhile to wind down. after finding unconsciousness at 6:15a, i was awake by 8:00a to leave the house by 8:30a to go to work. its going to be a zombie-like day which will most likely end with deep deep sleep.

i’m going to work on the photo gallery of this trip and hopefully you’ll be able to see all my pictures by the end of this week… or sooner.

there are plenty of flowers around the box office courtyard and you’ll be able to see them when i post the entire gallery of my trip. i also found some interesting sculptures around town. since i’m going to be leaving after the show tonight, i attempted to sleep in my car a little bit after my photo session in the lower level of the public parking structure. i think i barely went out of consciousness when the heat woke me up. although it wasn’t that hot, there wasn’t any breeze going through the garage so i opted to leave and find shaded parking in the open. shortly after driving around i found a nice quiet place next to a cementary, screened down my windows and opened up the moonroof.

after i laid the seat down this was the view i saw through the roof and thought it was picture worthy.

so was the view through the passenger-side window. i just love the texture. anyways, try as i might to catch some sleep it was unattainable. so i went to the next obvious choice to get out of heat… the public library. they have wireless internet here so i found a compfy chair facing a floor-to-ceiling window with a beautiful view of the hills on the opposite side of the valley and blogged this entry. its about 5:44p right now so before i leave i think i’ll watch a downloaded video from DLTV and then grab something to eat before the play The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

i have friends that have attended Big Lake back in the day so i was kind of neat to actually go there and see it for myself.

this moment was captured as this was day that my car first went “off-pavement”. its definitely a slower and bumpier ride experience… one that i’m definitely not used to. please don’t misunderstand me. the insanity of current gas prices and the economics of my new car has reinvented my past driving habits. i’m not the lead-foot that i used to be.

after lunch at Big Lake, we went to the town of Bend to do some store browsing and then caught a flick. after that we hung out at the local library for some internet action where Christina schooled my computer-geekness in opening multiple browser. their system protects the operating system from idiots by providing a menu of applications to launch instead of displaying the desktop. CTRL+N wasn’t working for me so i had to minimize the browser and launch another instance of the app. anyways, after that she took me to this Thai drive-thru for some eats. when i drove up to the place it was like the size of Caffino stand. very interesting. we took our food to Drake Park and then headed to Starbucks for some Tangerine Frappacinos. mmmmm! i dropped her back at Big Lake but before i left she showed me pictures of some of her girls as well as other varied pictures of her adventures.

it was a long day, but it was fun and kicked back. tomorrow i have one more play to attend and then i’m heading back to California. laters.