Christmas Ornaments #20: Comedy and Tragedy Masks

 

In 2023, we became theatre goers. It's not like we'd never seen anything theatrical before, but we turned that knob up to 11 in 2023. Ella was in Newsies, and Mike got tickets to four Hale Center Theatre productions (and since someone had to drive him, the rest of us got to see some of them with him). We also made a trip to Cedar City to see A Mid Summer's Night Dream and The Play That Goes Wrong. Ella got to see a production of Clue, and Shannon and Mike went to the high school production of A Mid Summer's Night Dream. Maybe there's more that I can't remember, but that's a lot of plays for us, so we picked a theatrical ornament to remind us of a new-found interest.

Christmas Ornaments #19: Yellowstone

 

In 2022 we went to Yellowstone and spent a couple of nights at the old lodge at Old Faithful, which has been a fanciful experience every time I've done it. (Twice) The lodge doesn't have TVs, or WiFi, so you're forced to just sit and enjoy the building, listen to the live music, and watch the geysers. I think we saw Old Faithful go off 7 times, from a number of different vantage points. Anyway, about the ornament. We found this beautiful ceramic ornament with an elk on one side, and a John Muir quote on the other.

Despite the perfection that is this ornament, Ella was not impressed. So we had to buy this bird ornament from Target or something so make her happy.