Seattle Fun with Family! April 4th, 2009

On Sat April 4th 2009 we joined the Matthews Family and the Wilks for a day of Family fun in Seattle to celebrate Megan and Josh Wilk’s birthdays! The sunshine was warm and beautiful! It made the day very enjoyable to be outside. First we went to the Mall at Westlake Center and walked around, and then went to Pike’s place. The kids had a lot of fun looking at all the flashy goods and the flying fish. We then took the Monorail over to the Space Needle and walked around there snapping lots of pictures of the family. What a special day with sisters, and brothers and sisters in law (me) and of course all the COUSINS! We finished off our day at the Old Spaghetti Factory with good food, birthday presents and lots of silliness!

Happy Birthday to Megan and Josh Wilks!

Seattle Space Needle!

The Hubbers and Me

The Sisters- Do i look like I belong?

The Wilks Family

The Matthews Family

The Cousins!

Alex and Aunt Jenny

Alex found his reflection and spent some time making silly faces and showing off his muscles (to himself). It was absolutely histerical!

Silly Girls putting on a show for all of us watching."I want to come up there too!!"

CATS! April 17th 2009

Music by
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

My dad scored us tickets to see the play CATS at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on April 17th 2009!

Mom and Dad met us in Seattle for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory before the play. That yummy place is always a great way to start out a wonderful night in Seattle. My cousin (on my Dad's side) CARA COOLEY (played Bombalurina). Cara had the lead role in this broadway play and we were very proud of her. I remember as a child twirling with her while visiting Great Grandma Cooley in her nursing home and putting on "shows" for the visiting families. She was always a great dancer and singer. This just proves how amazing she is. It was wonderful. We had a fantastic time. Cara is the first gal on the left on the billboard.

On our way to the play we heard familiar voices. Cousin Curtiss and his beautiful wife Grace was behind us. It was a neat surprise to bump into and walk in with additional family I have not seen in years! A NOTE ON THE PLAY-
Most of the poems comprising Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats (1939) have been set to music complete and in their originally published form; a few have been subject to a minor revision of tense or pronoun, and eight lines have been added to “The Song of the Jellicles.”
However, some of our lyrics, notably the story of “Grizabella,” were discovered among the unpublished writings of Eliot.

The prologue is based on ideas and incorporates lines from another unpublished poem, entitled
“Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats.”


“Memory” includes lines from and is suggested by “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and other poems of the Prufrock period. All other words in the show are taken from The Collected Poems.
—Trevor Nunn