{"id":6861,"date":"2013-10-04T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2013-10-04T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:13:00","slug":"wicked-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=6861","title":{"rendered":"WICKED!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=6908\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6908\" alt=\"Wicked!\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wicked.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wicked.jpg 726w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wicked-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim and I and Alisa went to see Wicked last month&#8211;and it was Ah-mazing!\u00a0 We decided to take Alisa (our Nanny who has become part of our family) as a joint Birthday\/Christmas gift as well as part of my Birthday gift since we all really wanted to go.\u00a0 Tim and I had seen it once before, when it came to town a few years ago, so I was worried I might not like it quite as much, but I was wrong!\u00a0 It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">just<\/span> as fantastic the second time.\u00a0 The music is so catchy and the characters have such personality&#8211;I find it quite entertaining.\u00a0 I continued to replay the music and scenes in my head for days.<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, we ended up sitting RIGHT next to our church friends&#8211;funny huh?\u00a0 We knew they were going to the same show (because Tim had mentioned it on Facebook and they quickly asked how they could order tickets too) so I hoped we would run into them&#8230; and we certainly did!\u00a0 It was their first time seeing it, as well as Alisa&#8217;s first time, so it was delightful to talk with all of them about their thoughts and impressions of the show.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6909\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=6909\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6909\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6909\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6909\" alt=\"wicked with alisa and brittney\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wicked-with-alisa-and-brittney.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wicked-with-alisa-and-brittney.jpg 470w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wicked-with-alisa-and-brittney-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alisa, Me &amp; Brittany @ the Orpheum!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since we went to the matinee we had time to stop afterwards for supper on our way home.\u00a0 We went to this cute Italian restaurant in Eden Prairie called Biaggi&#8217;s.\u00a0 They served bread before the meal&#8211;which is one of my <em>favorite things<\/em>, if a restaurant does that they definitely make the top of my list!&#8211;and then I ordered the Butternut Squash Ravioli and it was seriously SCRUMPTIOUS!\u00a0 We enjoyed laughing and talking about the show and eating out delicious food.\u00a0 We&#8217;re sure going to miss Alisa next year when she goes off to College&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I would say, all in all, it was a fantastic outing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim and I and Alisa went to see Wicked last month&#8211;and it was Ah-mazing!\u00a0 We decided to take Alisa (our Nanny who has become part of our family) as a joint Birthday\/Christmas gift as well as part of my Birthday gift since we all really wanted to go.\u00a0 Tim and I had seen it once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6915,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}