Recently we have done some interesting things that we have not done before.  Last Thursday, we went to the Kennedy Center Opera House and watched Devine Performing Arts.  This is a classical Chinese Dance company based out of New York.  We had front row seats in the second teir so we had a pretty good view of everything.  For the most part, it was very interesting, the show told a story through dance.  Sometimes I did not follow, but overall it was good.  The were two things I was not a huge fan of, first was the video screen in the background.  I did not get into seeing animated people flying around.  The second was the operatic singers.  They were very loud and sang in Chinese so I had to read the screen to understand what they were saying and I think it was a literal translation that lost something.

The second activity we participated in was an improv comedy show at Ballston Commons mall, I forget the name of the place though.  It was at the place where Kyle is taking comedy classes.  Crowd participation and me don’t go together, but it was still pretty funny.  It was a lot more packed than I figured it would be.  I think one of the comedians had a lot of his friend show up.   It made for a pretty one sided entertainment competition.  The premise of the show is to pit two teams of comedians against each other and whomever does better gets points for each segment.  The “referee” was pretty funny, and seemed to be the most experienced.