Last night Matt and I got together with the other three couples from our church small group. We had a nice potluck dinner over at Wayne and Rena’s (we brought an excellent salad! And had persimmon cake for the first time.) Then we carpooled to Oceano to see the Holiday Extravaganza at The Great American Melodrama. They did a great version of A Christmas Carol, then a fractured fairytale about Hansel and Gretel (and their work-out-aholic parents “Jenny and Craig”, and a lesson on junk food), topped off with a holiday Vaudeville show. They did some great bits about what Dickens carolers are really thinking, a reindeer rap, an amazing 6-man water glass orchestra of the Nutcracker, a funny 12 Days of Christmas, and plenty other goofy things. The theater was really cozy, we had two intermissions for snacks, and had a really nice time laughing with our group. I wish we had known about this place earlier because they do all sorts of shows and it would have been something Matt and I would really enjoy.

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