Star Shows

Last night, for the first time, I went to the Children’s Christmas Play. This is a yearly tradition here in Hope Town and each year the play is different. This year’s was titled “Finding the Christmas Star.” It was really cute and there is quite a bit of local talent, especially singers. I never knew there were so many kids of all ages here on Elbow Cay. The little pre-school toddlers were especially adorable and seemed to know all the words to the songs. It was fun watching them, and even some of the older children, trying to find their parents and sneak waves to them, and then try to hide it, as if to say, “oh, I was just scratching my neck,” or something similar. The tickets are all free, but reserved, and they take donations at the end, for different children’s charities. They normally do the show for two nights, but they are always ‘sold out’, so this year they expanded it to three nights, and still all the tickets were taken.

Speaking of stars, we have been having meteor showers for the past several nights. They were predicting over 140 of them per hour at the peak. Naturally I didn’t see quite that many, but did see one or two of them every couple of minutes as I sat on deck watching the sky. Another great show of a different kind.