Gioacchino Rossini

Laney had a "great day" on Wednesday. To celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday they had a green eggs and ham breakfast at school. It was a little bit of a fiasco because they found out late that they didn't have authorization to deal with raw eggs in their cafeteria. They soon got someone on sight who was duly trained in the proper handling of all things ovoid and able to spot salmonella bacteria with the naked eye at ten paces and the kids were adequately pleased.
I know the Health department has to worry about making people ill. But, how many lame brains handle eggs every day? Besides I'll bet the green dye kills all germs:)
In the evening all three girls went to a dress rehearsal of "Cenerentola." That's Italian for "little girl who sits in the cinders and goes to dances in glass slippers." Laney was especially excited. I am just glad she was able to sit through almost three hours of it without really being able to understand what was going on. She couldn't read the subtitles very fast, I'm sure. But, then young imaginations are probably pretty good at filling in the blanks when they don't have all the information. All three girls loved it and especially enjoyed seeing Lenore's brother, Dan in the chorus.
Late last night I was switching channels on the tube and came across the first "three Tenors" performance from 1990. I remember Ed showing this to us when they visited once. (He's not really into Opera. But, had really enjoyed watching the interaction of the singers and the conductor.) I watched it again simply for this aspect. I will have to make the big kids watch it for kicks. The setting at the Baths in Caracalla is magnificent.