Fire on the Mountain

Me and Luke


The Rep Sign


The stage


Luke surprised me this week with tickets to go see, "Fire on the Mountain" at the Rep. We had a wonderful time! We ate at the Golden Corral where we watched a little boy get about 6 cones of ice cream...even licking the ice cream sprocket...GROSS!! We walked around downtown before going into the Rep. We saw a Bride going to the church too!

Fire on the Mountain is a play based on the history of coal miners. The music is blue grass...which is right up our alley! There were amazing pictures and stories in this play. The "Ma" in this play really looked like Old Ma Kettle. She really knitted during this play too! I was suprised because some actors fake it with those needles...she didn't! The music was wonderful. Those people worked so hard in the coal mines but were left with little or no support afterwards. The pictures of what the Coal Miner Companies did to the landscape of Kentucky was awful. I want to do some more research on this for sure.

Of course, the first thing Luke and I did when we sat down was look at the lighting fixtures, gobos, set design, and projection screens. We can't help it! It's an obsession I suppose. Thanks to Kathryn and her husband Shawn for taking our pic at the end! It was great to see you guys!

After we left the Rep we went with James and Heather to a restaurant off Kavanaugh for dessert. Oh my goodness....we had what was called a Chocolate Sack. It was a sack filled with vanilla ice cream, graham crackers, raspberry and strawberry compote, marshmallow creme, cinnamon, and whipped cream! We must have put on like 100 lbs. right there! Luke and James got coffee too! We had the best time visiting with them. The frogs in the water feature outside of this restaurant were SO loud. It was a great date night....thanks Luke! Love you!