Girl Friday

Ferries and Phantoms

No it is not a mis-spelling. I went on a ferry on Monday with my friend Jackie to visit her sister JoAnna. Last year I was in Jo's wedding and have seen her only twice since.

I actually left home Sunday afternoon to catch the evening service in Oak Harbor before staying overnight with Jackie. Things got off to a rather amusing start. I wasn't sure of when their service started and when I first drove by the building at about 5:30 - the parking lot was empty. So...I continued on to swing by Jackie's. Hmm...they're not home either. So...I continue down the road to the beach where I take a few pics and read my Bible for about half hour. I had a wonderful time there! I was by myself most of the time.



One couple did show up a bit later, but they didn't disturb the 'quiet' of the shore. I check the time and head back to the church and get there about 6:20. Oh boy! Parking lot is full! I sneak in and sit in the very back bench. (BTW: I was not the last one to arrive!) After the service, another friend from the church, Jen, comes up to me and says: "What are you doing here?" Jokingly I reply "Oh, just visiting". She goes on to tell me about the next day's schedule wherein she and Jackie are going to see the new Star Wars movie. I'm a bit puzzled. I had set up the visit to Jo's place a week ago, how in the world would she have time to see the movie as well? Up walks Jackie and I hear an echo: "What are you doing here?" My reply: "Uh...You told me to come Sunday night...so I could stay over...so we could catch an early ferry..." By this time she had a look of shock on her face. Have you guessed it yet? Yup! She forgot! this was o.k. because Jo is fine with spur-of-the-moment plans and the girls could easily go another day to watch the movie. Isn't it wonderful that everyone cleared their plans for me! :P The rest of the night was great and shockingly enough, Jackie and I didn't talk the night through!

The next morning Jackie and I were up and on our way to catch the ferry at 6:50. I think the ferry we took was the 7:30 one. What CD does Jackie have in the car for us to listen to? "Phantom of the Opera" I love Andrew Lloyd Webber's music from that play! Jackie is the same way except very much more so! We listened to it and sang along when we could. At the same time Jackie is describing the movie to me and saying that I HAVE to see it!
We meet Jo for breakfast before walking a little bit around Port Angeles. A very little bit as Jo is 8 months pregnant. We then head over to her place where we catch up on news and listen to music and...watch Phantom of the Opera! We all had a wonderful time but it did have to come to an end. Jack and I had to catch the 6:45 Port Townsend ferry out of there.



We listened to Phantom of the Opera soundtrack again on the way to the ferry. We went out on the deck still singing the music from the movie. We did stop when ever someone came by though. But we weren't vigilant enough! We were in a corner of the boat in the front, outside, basically hanging over the rail singing. There is a room in the front center of the boat where you can watch where the boat is going w/o having the wind in your face. Jackie and I did not know that there was someone in that room, in our "blind spot" listening to us sing. We were singing the song "Phantom of the Opera" the duet between the Phantom and the girl. If you don't know the song it goes really high at the end. I had all of the notes until the very end where the last not has to be an E flat above high C. Very high! I did squeak it out on the second try. I did not hold it very long as people were coming by. Jackie and I decided to take a walk around the boat. Just as we were finishing our circle, we come across an older man in the aforesaid room, who asked us to sing the song from Phantom again and that he really enjoyed it!! Jackie and I just about died!!! But he was not laughing; he was perfectly serious. We talked for a little bit longer about Phantom he told us he had seen the play in some opera house, but we did not sing that song again!!

The time is late and I shall have to finish this post another time. This computer is wanted by my brother who has a paper due.

I'll be back!!

posted by Anna @ 10:15 PM