The Hazard Chronicles

There has been quite a bit of activity this last week. Rachel has been in Nashville the whole time for a music/theater interpreting camp thing. Every time I tried to call her she was either running off to a see a show, interpret a show, or throw a party at her hotel room. It sounds like she had a great time. I'll put a bunch of photos up here for us to have for our own family memories. She can caption them if she wants, or add more about her trip.

Nashville was wonderful. Our typical day was classes Monday through Friday from 8-5, out to dinner together every evening, attending concerts to support each other, late night parties, and stealing time away to prep for upcoming shows. I did not go to sleep before midnight once. Then we had a full day of activities in Nashville on Saturday. It was a great time. Also, I feel like I need an additional week to digest everything that just happened! Mama Sam and Kim go out of their way to create a non-judgemental learning environment and a feeling of family. It works. 

Now, I wanted to mention what the rest of us have been up to while she was gone.

Melting. That's what we have been doing. Like, almost literally watching ourselves turn into puddles. Like, I feel like a puddle. It has been so hot and the heat saps your energy and motivation and it isn't even until the sun starts going down that we are even able to move again to go outside to skate or play tennis or something. Every day this past week was into triple digit temps and man, do I miss winter. 

While I was at work the kids have been doing various activities to try and stay cool. They went to the lake. They went to the movies. They went to the river. They played video games, and made cupcakes and lemonade, and basically did anything else that could keep them sane. When the weekend rolled around we pulled up a weather map with the intention of going to wherever the coolest weather could be found.

For us, this ended up being either the Oregon coast, or the glaciers on Mt. Rainier. Since we had just recently visited the ocean we opted for the latter. Also, snow. Snow makes a compelling argument when a person is melting. Snow is, by definition, NOT melted, and that seemed really nice.

There really isn't too much more to say than that. The trip was great. We did some hiking around. We played in some cold water. We played in the snow. The area around Mt. Rainier is really beautiful and we took a lot of photos. It was great.

Ok. On to the photos. Have a great week!

I was excited to hang out with Justine. She was the only person I knew from my previous BSL Nashville. In person is much better than Zoom!

Party time! It was a super fun party if you enjoy hanging out with colleagues and giving each other feedback related to performance interpreting.

Hanging out at the Grand Ole Opry Hotel

We were able to get a shot of all of us together!

On Monday we found out which concerts we would be interpreting for in Nashville. I had fun with the Bruce Springsteen concert. "Just be a man!" Other events included; New Kids on the Block/Paula Abdul/DJ Jazzy Jeff, a comedy show, and The Suffragettes to name a few.

Playing around with interpreting comedy. This was my favorite part.

Just for fun! We watched a comedy clip, then one of us interpreted it on stage. You never know what you are going to get as an interpreter- One day I am Bruce Springsteen, and then next day I am a puppet!