We were in Detroit for a while, about 5 days. The city was kinda grouse and scary and not a ton to do in walking distance. The only thing that was really close was Greek Town, this street with all these yummy Greek restaurants and a Greek casino. It was colorful and busy and I ate saganaki for the first time. Saganaki is this Greek dish, its just cheese on a plate then they light it on fire right in front of you and yell "OPA!" Flaming hot cheese spread across pita bread is irresistible! I loved it! Other fun activities I enjoyed while in Detroit was shopping at an amazing mall! We had a cast day off there so our company managers coordinated a shopping trip one day so that the buses could take us because the mall was about 20 minutes away from our hotel. It was the best mall I've ever been to hands down. I about had a panic attack in it though because there were SO many shops! It was actually 2 malls that was connected by a long sky mall. I spent the majority of my time in one of my favorite stores, lululemon!! I also went to this awesome chiropractor that my friend, Erin- who is from Detroit, hooked us up with. The chiropractor had this crazy machine that "read" your bone alignment with this gun thing. After he zapped you, a diagram came up on the computer showing me just how messed up I truly was. It was fascinating to see the before and after alignments and the differences the adjustment made. I felt great that first show back after my adjustment, however I'm pretty sure I went back to my normal busted self after that first jump split! The final night in Detroit, the girls and I traded our backstage passes for tickets and went and saw the Broadway touring production of Irvine Berlin's "White Christmas" at the historic Fox Theater. It was so much fun to watch another Christmas show! And I love "White Christmas!" The cast was awesome and I was overwhelmed with how beautiful and interesting the Fox Theater was. One last funny story about our 6th city. During one if the shows we had a small fire on stage! During the "New York at Christmas" number we have little fireworks on stage at the end. I guess one of the fireworks got too close or a wire intercepted our pretty red show curtain and it caught fire right there on stage! (One of the girls said she saw someone in the front pointing at the stage at the end of the number, but she didnt think she would ever be pointing at a fire!!) I was clueless, as was most of the other Rockettes, and we finished the number without knowing anything was wrong. As we were backstage changing into our next number, Santa's, we heard our stage manager over the loud speaker saying something about a momentary hold on the show. They stopped the show for 15 minutes as they fixed the curtain and put the fire out.....then we went on with the show! Luckily it wasn't a big fire and nothing got seriously damaged because I guess they had some flame retardant on the curtain already. It was exciting though, it shook things up a bit!
It's bed time for me...goodnight!
This is a pic at the arena that we preformed at....this is a Hall of Fame wall for the Detroit Hockey team...I got lucky that my name was "sort of" on there!
Who knew I was a good hockey player! :)
This is one of the views of the lobby at the Fox Theater. This is no way captures the extreme detail and beauty of this theater. The theater looked like what a Hindu temple would be like.
"OPA!!" Amy, Nita and I are outside of Pegasus, one of the Greek places we ate at in Greek town.
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