lao-ocean-girl » Events http://lao-ocean.com Travel often. Capture Life. Create Art. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:32:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A Cirque du Soleil Evening http://lao-ocean.com/2008/11/17/a-cirque-du-soleil-evening/ http://lao-ocean.com/2008/11/17/a-cirque-du-soleil-evening/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:19:02 +0000 lao-ocean-girl http://lao-ocean.com/?p=1016 Last weekend, a group of us went to see Cirque du Soleil: Alegria.  Unfortunately, there are no pictures from the show at all, because the staff were very strict with enforcing the “no picture” rule.  I couldn’t even take a picture of our group, in our seats, during intermission.  Nonetheless, Kristy, Gisela, and I spent our intermission eating churros and browsing the gift area.  Kristy bought a lot of Alegria shwag, while I just picked up a red clown nose.

Thanks to YouTube, below are some of the acts from the show.  I have no idea what the woman in white was singing about, but the song was damn catchy.  After the show, Thomas, Kristy, and I were singing the only word we recognized from the song: Alegria.  Before attending the show, I thought it was called “al leg ria,” as in a man’s name, a lower appendage, and the last syllable of the name Gloria.  Boy, was this American bumpkin’ ever wrong.  I was soon embarrassed to find out how much I butchered this word.  It should have rolled off my tongue as “ahl leg rhee ahhh.”  See below:

[audio:Alegria.mp3]

[youtube]http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=smkiSJf2cHE[/youtube]

If there was to be one act we liked the least, it would be the two Mongolian contortionists.  Is it just me, or does it seem unnatural to see someone sitting on their own head???  Yikes!

[youtube]http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=8nEsgpGJbr4[/youtube]

After the show, we showed up at Star Chef with our party of 12.  At Star Chef, the salad is always the belle of the party:

Shrimp:  Before and After

Me: Before (dinner) and After

Definitely check out Cirque du Soleil while they’re still in town.  If nothing else, their churros are fantastic!

[View the night's Flickr album here.]

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