What a bust!
We never did get to go to Bolero cuz it was too busy… who knew you had to book a couple weeks in advance for this crazy place?!? Well, instead we went to ‘Glory of India’ downtown and that sucked. The food wasn’t good. We’ve been to other similar places like the Taj Mahal and Rajoot. Those 2 restaurants are fabulous! This one, not so much. The food came out luke warm like it had been sitting under the warming bulbs and it was not served very attractively. It was served on a TV dinner type plate. So unappealing.
The CPO was a bust as well. The first 1/2 hour sucked because they featured this ‘new’ composer and he sucked. He composed a song called Dragon Relams and it was horrific. LOL… the people in front of us were hilarious because of their total and complete disdain for the song. Their facial expressions were so funny. They were just disgusted. It sounded like the orchestra tuning. It was a dark and disturbing song. When the song was introduced, the conductor talked about it like it was the greatest thing ever.
After the performance, which went on for waaaay to long, Ryan leans over to me and whispers, “This is like the Emperor’s Clothes. Where one person is all excited about how fabulous something is and everyone just agrees cuz they don’t want to look like a fool.”
I laughed. It was so true.
“Well, if someone asks me my opinion I’d tell them the truth. It wasn’t something that I liked or like to listen to. ”
Next was some pieces from a Russian composer. Peter somebody. It was ok. Again, it was rather dark and dreary.
During intermission we went up to the balcony. I wanted to sit up there because then I could watch the Clarinet and the Oboe’s play. I could see more of the orchestra. Sitting on the floor I was only able to see the first 2 rows of the Cello’s and violins play. So we sat up to the left of the orchestra…. bad idea…
Now we had to lean forward and turn our necks to see everything… *sigh* Really, the ideal seats I think are on the 1st balcony but just facing straight on.
Roberto Brahm’s music was beautiful! I loved it. However, had a hard time enjoying it because of the seats. Should have just sat in our good seats on the floor. Ah well….
So I was hoping that we would be able to go see a movie after, but by the time the CPO got out the movies had all started. So we just went to the Cactus Club restaurant and had 4 kinds of dessert. Pumpkin cheesecake, chocolate lava cake, apple pie, and a strawberry cheesecake. I like them all except for the pumpkin cheesecake. It was yummy. My fav. was the apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream and the strawberry cheesecake.
Well, the evening royally sucked. *sigh* Ah well. We’ll have to do a ‘do over’ date. It was nice to get out.