So little time, so little blog!

Hi everyone! I can't believe how busy things have been! From rehearsal, to laundry, to grocery shopping and sleeping, there just enough time in the day! Let me catch you up....the end of last week went well....the Rockettes were totally exhausted by Saturday, but our ensemble started on Friday so we all learned the Santa number together over the weekend. It was fun to have some new faces in rehearsals! It was like one big cardio class when we were running the Santa number toward the end of the day. Then I went into the city on my day off again, literally for 24 hours, and had a great time. I also went to this "injury prevention seminar" that was organized and held by our awesome athletic trainer, Elaine, who was a Rockette for over 10 years. Anyway, what we did was go around to different stations and get tested and talk to doctors, physical therapist, and athletic trainers to educate ourselves about what areas needed work to have a healthy season. I found out from the podiatrist that I have loose ligaments, which I guess isn't a good thing because I'll never have the strength in my feet that I need....I guess that explains all the rolled ankles that keep happening!?!? Other then that, it was a positive, but much longer experience then I'd hoped for......I was at this thing for about 2 hours!!! So we started week #3 yesterday, and it was one of the best Monday's I think I've ever had! We had a film crew there taping our rehearsals because they are making a documentary on the first ever Arena Tour!! They interviewed our director and a few of the Rockettes...we are still wondering what this documentary is being used for? Someone told us it's for "in house" use, but then someone else had mentioned that they are going to show this thing in all the cities we are preforming in? We'll see! Then, a lady that lives in New London (where we are rehearsing) stopped by because she was a Rockette in 1942 & 1943! She had to be at least 85 years old! She was so funny, she was telling us stories at lunchtime about how the Rockettes used to bunk up at Radio City and how they toured the world with movie stars during the war. She had mentioned that Cary Grant was her favorite because he wasn't high maintenance at all, and he was so nice and generous to all the Rockettes!! She had brought her old photos and newspaper clippings to show us, and I love seeing those because I love all the vintage costumes and things! We are almost done learning the show....we only have 2 more numbers to learn! Today was a pretty tough day because it was mega humid and I started feeling dehydrated, plus we kicked like crazy yesterday and today so I'm soooo stiff! I did pain through a half body ice bath after rehearsal today so hopefully I'll feel rejuvenated for tomorrow! :)