Perils of Caffeine in the Evening

So, I fly home tonight (Friday), arrive near midnight.  My mom will fly into Seattle from Toledo tomorrow evening, and on Monday she, Mrs. Perils and I will fly south to Medford, OR to make our annual haj to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  Check any of the “Ashland” categories in the sidebar to see what we’ve done in prior years.

To recap, we started going to Ashland when our son was in middle school and a group from their school would attend the Festival.  After he graduated, we bought our own membership in the Festival and continued to attend each year.  We’ve found so many other interesting things to do there that we’ve kept adding days to the trip.

This year, we’ll be seeing:

• Don Quixote on Tuesday in the outdoor Elizabethan
• Much Ado About Nothing Wednesday evening in the Elizabethan
• Equivocation Thursday afternoon in the large indoor Bowmer Theatre
• Macbeth Thursday evening in the Bowmer
• Death and the King’s Horseman Friday evening in the Bowmer
• The Music Man Saturday evening in the Bowmer
• Servant of Two Masters Sunday afternoon in the intimate New Theatre
• Henry VIII Sunday evening in the Elizabethan

I know it looks like a lot of dead time, spreading 8 plays over a week  (we fly back to Seattle the following Monday), but we are usually very busy, heading out of town for hikes and other adventures.  It’ll be really nice to get a whole week off of work, throttle back, maybe actually read a book.