Broadway Across America: Shucked

I got to sneak into my mother-in-law's friend group and see Shucked this past weekend. I feel so fortunate to live in a city where Broadway Across America travels to-there are so many plays I wouldn't have been able to see and especially at this level of skill and talent.

 

Plot: A woman leaves her small town to find help when the corn in the county begins to die.

Review: If I had to use one word to describe this musical it would be hilarious. It's almost a disservice to say this play is about corn because it's about so much more {friendship, love, family, trust, challenging yourself}, and I loved it! Yes, a lot of the jokes were corn-y {on purpose}, but it was really fantastic! It was a little off-color, so I wouldn't recommend for kids, but for us adults, we loved it!

Tattoo-ed Mama

As I mentioned in my Nashville post, 3 of us ladies got tattoos while in Nashville. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time, so it was very exciting that it came together on this trip!

The idea came about because I saw Brent's cousin's {Heather} tattoo {3 hearts down her wrist to represent her kids}, and I told her about my idea {3 stars on the inside of my wrist to represent my 3 kids}, and we decided we should make it happen in Nashville.

It came up with the broader group and both Kristi {Brent's cousin's wife} and Carla {a friend} wanted to get them too! So after we had brunch on Saturday {our last full day in Nashville}, we went to a shop next to our AirBNB apartment and they had availability to fit us in, yay!

Brent liked the idea of what I wanted to do, but said he came first so he needed a spot in my tattoo too so the idea of a 2nd tattoo was born. Heather's husband had his and Heather's anniversary on his wrist in Roman numerals, and I thought that looked really cool. 

Our tattoo artist designing my wedding date tattoo.

Getting ready!

My view of the stars tattoo

The finished product

Overall it was a pretty quick and mostly painless process. The stars took just a couple of minutes and the wedding date maybe 5-7.

Carla getting her tattoo

{dcat for her family-David, Carla, Abby, and Ty}

Kristi getting hers 

{a skeleton key in memory of her dad who was a locksmith}

A close-up on my wedding date tattoo

10.16.2004

The Nashville tattoo club!

We will see if this is the start of many more... {grin}