A little bit of culture (OK, it ended up being a little too much culture)

In an attempt to get our kids exposed to some "culture" {read - something other than watching TV, playing video games, swimming, etc.} during the summer, we took them to a local outdoor theater, where they were putting on the show "High School Musical 2". A co-worker of Steve's went the night before and said that there were two casts, an older group and a younger group. They saw the younger one, and thought that the older group would probably do a better job, but it was still decent. We went last year with some of our neighbors and had a really good time. We showed up an hour early with a little picnic dinner and ate before the show. And the show last year ("The Music Man") was fairly decent and fun to watch, so we went with pretty good expectations. {Can you see where I am going with this?}

Yeah, it was horrible. H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E. - and that is being nice. Jayden sums it up nicely:

Don't believe me? Watch for yourself...

Excruciating I know. Now hit replay over and over again for the next hour and a half and you would just about have our experience. The guy that played Troy, was totally monotone. Not just when he was talking, but when he was singing as well. I wish I got video of the "Bet on it" number. And you thought Zac Effron did a poor job of it in the movie, well this guy did 10 times worse. My kids are still talking about it and we actually went and saw this almost a month ago. So even though we fell short in giving our kids some culture, we sure made some great memories! And you can bet we will probably do it again next year!