Even though this was designed for Livejournal, I'm stealing it anyway. You can just email me with your guesses! I'll update each one once it's been guessed.
ONE: Pick 10 musicals.
TWO: Post them and see who can guess which song of each musical is your favorite.
THREE: Once someone guesses right, bold that row and include your favorite song
Matthew got three right, and Christine got two
1. Wicked - I'm Not that Girl
2. Roméo & Juliette - Les Rois du Monde
3. Elisabeth - Die Schatten werden länger
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Prayer
5. Parade - This is Not Over Yet
6. Jane Eyre - Farewell, Good Angel
7. The Beautiful Game - All the Love I Have
8. Atlantis - Prayer to Ba'al-Zebub
9. Cats - Grizabella, the Glamour Cat
10. Ragtime - He Wanted to Say
Okay, I think I am going to have to go to Stars on Ice this year after all. Kurt, Alexei and Jeffrey all on the same ice? Are they trying to give me a heart attack? Honestly, where would I look?
Anybody want to join me? I'll probably be getting cheap seats, but it'll still be fun! :-)
Just a quick update in here before I head off to church for Good Friday!
So I am back home! The trip went very well overall, I will have lots of pictures coming soon. I really loved St. Petersurg, and would definitely like to go back there sometime, but I could survive without seeing Moscow again. In general, Russia was pretty much what I was expecting, with a few extra frustrations thrown in.
And, of course, it was great to be at Worlds again! My skating predictions were not so good this year, but overall I was happy with the results. I correctly predicted all the dance medalists, just in the wrong order, and had Irina and Jeff in the right positions. Everyone was telling me I was being a little over-optimistic to predict Jeffrey would win silver, and even though it played out differently than I expected, it still ended up that way! :-)
And now it's Easter weekend already, before I even had a chance to think about it! I took a few stuffed bunnies into work, and baked some cookies, but that's about it. This weekend I have to do all my laundry from the trip, and read my insurance book, since the exam is in a week and a half and I haven't started reading it yet. *sigh* Why do I always do this??
I hope you all have a happy Easter!!
I am just killing a bit of time before the gala at the World Figure Skating Championships. It has been a slightly disappointing week, what with Plushenko and Shen/Zhao withdrawing, but then both Jeff and Tanith & Ben won silver medals, which was sooo great!! And I cried at the end of Irina's free skate, I felt so happy for her after all she's gone through. The arena was going NUTS!!
I have to admit, I don't like Moscow nearly as much as St. Petersburg - I've been having a fairly frustrating time of it here. But I got to meet up with some other figure skating fans, and sharing the frustrations with them has made it a bit easier. :-) I've tried a fair bit of Russian food (and Tibetan food too!), and seen some interesting museums here as well.
After the gala today, I am going to the Bolshoi, and then tomorrow is the flight back home! I don't want to go back to work. :-( But it will be nice to be back in Canada.
I am having an absolutely fabulous time here, Russia is gorgeous, and the people are so nice and friendly. Although there have been plenty of instances where we don't speak the same language, communication problems have actually been relatively few!
Just some of the things I have seen so far include the Hermitage (though I have to go back again!), Pavlovsk and Peterhof, the Russian Museum, Dostoyevsky and Pushkin's last residences, and a ballet performance at the Mariinsky.
Here is a picture of me standing on Nevsky Prospekt, with the Cathedral of the Saviour on Spilled Blood in the background!
I did also manage to see Romeo & Juliette in Moscow, which was great!! It was pretty much exactly like the French version, which is fine by me. :-)
Anyway, it's been a long day for me, so I'm going to call it a night, but I'll try to update again from Moscow, and the World Figure Skating Championships!!
Okay, I've been checking the Pearson airport website compulsively since last night, and my flight just came up! Yay!!
I am all packed, and my apartment is relatively clean, which is what I spent all of last night doing. Aside from talking to my mother, of course, who is a little worried about my trip. But I think I've got her at least semi-convinced that everything is going to be fine. I know she'll feel a million times better if she sees me at Worlds on TV.
I've still got a last-minute list of things to do, most of which will need to be done at work, but so far things are going well. I even found the combination for my lock in the first place that I looked for it - what are the chances of that?!
Zorana has lent me a couple of scarfs for the trip, since I wanted something to cover my head when I go to services at the Orthodox churches. They are very pretty, but people at work seemed to think I look funny in them. :-(
Before I go, I wanted to give my predictions for Worlds - maybe I can even affect some of the results this time around. ;-) These are, as usual, a combination of what I would like to see happen and what I think will happen.
Men
Evgeni Plushenko
Jeffrey Buttle
Johnny Weir
Women
Irina Slutskaya
Michelle Kwan
Shizuka Arakawa
Pairs
Shen/Zhao
Totmianina/Marinin
Pang/Tong
Dance
Navka/Kostomarov
Grushina/Goncharov
Belbin/Agosto
Anyway, I have to finish getting ready for work, but I wanted to keep my promise to update once more before I left. Next entry - from Russia!!
I am sooooo happy! It looks as though I will FINALLY get to see Roméo & Juliette on stage! After missing it in Québec, London and Budapest, I had been trying desperately to find out if and when it would be playing in Moscow this month. But I knew that even if it was playing, it would be difficult for me to see it, since I have tickets for the skating every night that I'm there except one, for which I've already got a ticket to the Bolshoi. So anyway, this morning I finally found a schedule for March, and it said the show is playing at the Moscow Operetta from March 1 to the 13th. My stay in Moscow is from the 14th-20th. So I was just starting to get all upset, when it hit me - I'm not going to STAY in Moscow until the 14th, but I am flying in to Moscow this weekend, and then not taking the train to St. Petersburg until much later that night - I could just go see it as soon as I arrive! So I have made this my plan, and there was great rejoicing to be had. Now I just have to hope that everything goes smoothly and in a timely manner to ensure it all works out, but I feel that after all that's happened, I was destined to see it this weekend, and it will all be fine.
Before I continue with the trip gushing, let me just say that I spent a really lovely day on Saturday with Karen and Gill, where we had a quick lunch, took in the matinee of Bat Boy (highly enjoyable), chatted in Second Cup, and roamed Honest Ed's until the store closed. I bought a watch for $1.29! Here is a picture of us outside the store...
...and more details of the day, along with lots of fun pictures, can be found in Karen's journal.
So anyway, yes, Russia! I leave in 3 days, which is extremely hugely exciting. I don't know if I have ever been quite so excited about a trip, and I'm always pretty darn excited! I've been working on my trip notes, and I think I've narrowed down what I want to do in each city to the following:
St. Petersburg - spend two days in the Hermitage, visit Peterhof, Pushkin and Pavlovsk palaces outside the city, do a full day walking tour, go to the circus, visit the Dostoyevsky and Pushkin museums, see the ballet at the Mariinsky, see the Russian Museum and St. Isaac's Cathedral, go to an Orthodox church service, stroll all the way down Nevsky Prospekt and by the Neva, follow Raskolnikov's murder route, see where Paul I was assassinated and Rasputin was poisoned, visit the Peter & Paul Fortress and Peter the Great's log cabin, go for coffee with an international group of skating fans, and maybe hit a nightclub or two with other tourists from the hostel.
Moscow - aside from hours upon hours of excellent figure skating... tour the Kremlin and see Lenin, visit the Tolstoy house museum, attend an opera at the Bolshoi, visit the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, explore St. Basil's and some of the city's other cathedrals, ride the Metro and see the beautiful stations, and go to an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day.
Naturally, there will be other things that come up that I can't even anticipate now! I am looking forward to each and every thing, I think it is going to be a wonderful adventure! I have expanded my Russian phrases to include "hello", "goodbye", "my name is..." and "I speak English and French". :-)
Anyway, there is still a list of things I need to do before I leave, so I better get back to that. I will update once more before I go, and then whenever I get a chance to get online once I'm there!