sing... my angel of music...

on january 22nd chris and i will celebrate our first wedding anniversary... which is pretty amazing and exciting.  what a busy year we have had.  we wanted to do something really special for this first anniversary and since the baby is due fairly close to our actual anniversary date we decided to celebrate a month early... that way we wouldn't chance losing out on tickets to a show and hotel room.  we decided a while ago we wanted to see "phantom of the opera" before we left las vegas.  i saw it once when i was six... and have ever since been obsessed and have the entire musical memorized.  chris has been playing all the songs on the piano but hasn't ever seen the stage show.  so we bought our tickets for dec 19th and then thought hey... lets book a hotel room at the venetian for a night and make a whole little stay-cation out of it.  this was our last hoo-ra before baby comes.

we packed our bags and got to the hotel right when we could check in.  we hung out in the room for a while and got all fancy dressed up and headed to dinner.  we ate at "grand lux cafe" which is a sister of cheesecake factory.  the food was way good! then we headed down to the theater and found our seats.  the theater was built to replicate the actual opera house the musical is based on.  it was very neat.  our seats were up in the balcony but still really good.  when the show finally started i had chills and i will admit after they say "with a little illumination... gentlemen" and then the organ comes in all huge and rumbling and the chandelier begins to rise and take its place... i got a little teary eyed.  blame it on pregnancy hormones or just on sheer excitement of seeing the show again... i was chocked up the whole time.  the show was really good. i was really impressed with both christine and raoul.  they had beautiful voices which is good since they sing the prettiest songs.

after the show we walked around the grand canal in the venetian.  we listened to a few gondoliers and then got some shakes and took them back to our room.  by the end of the night i crashed and fell asleep pretty easily.  i woke up in the night all congested and not feeling great... i had finally caught the cold chris had had a week earlier.  its never fun to be congested when you are pregnant and already struggling to breathe.

in the morning we woke up at like 10.... nice long sleep and cleaned up our stuff and left.  it was such a fun night and a perfect way to celebrate our anniversary.  the food was great, the room was really nice, and the show was awesome!