Opera, Soccer, and Football.... Oh my!

We had a VERY busy weekend! It sure was a fun one. On Friday evening we went to Big Mike's opera (I've mentioned Big Mike a few times before). Big Mike and one of his friends wrote an original opera called "By You That Made Me, Frankenstein", and it was about Mary Shelley and her group of writer friends (including Lord Byron) during the summer that she wrote Frankenstein (1816). It was really interesting and well-done, and I loved it. Most of the opera centered around the five friends hanging out during that rainy summer, but then as Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein some of her characters (Dr. Frankenstein and The Monster) started integrating themselves throughout the scenes and interacting with the other characters. Big Mike played The Monster, and he shaved his head for the role and wore some crazy white contacts in his eyes too... He definitely looked like my vision of Frankenstein's monster!!  It was awesome. I didn't take any pictures during the opera, but I did take some pictures beforehand of the very cool venue. It was (fittingly) in a historic building that houses Philadelphia's oldest writer's club: The Franklin Inn Club.

The exterior of The Franklin Inn Club. 

Here's what part of the interior looked like, and part of the audience. 

This is the view from our seats. We were sitting on the side of the stage. 

Here's the cool fireplace that was right by my seat. 

Here's a picture of McGee at the bar set up in the back of the room, buying some beers for us to drink during the show. 

On Saturday we went to a Philadelphia Union soccer match with McGee's friend Juliff, and we did a few hours of tailgating before the match even though it was raining like crazy!!  Luckily we had a tent to sit under, but it was raining pretty hard. In fact, it was raining so hard that they ended up delaying the soccer match by an hour due to unsafe field conditions. I did not take any pictures that day, because I left my phone/camera safely inside of Juliff's trunk during the tailgating and the game because I did not want to risk it getting wet.

On Sunday, we were both feeling pretty exhausted so we didn't do much of anything. We watched lots of football, and made a delicious CrockPot meal - Creamy Green Enchilada Soup.

And now it's Monday... Another week begins. My work has me scheduled for like 5 weeks of travel during the months of November and December (plus I'll be in Belgium for a week with McGee, and I'll be in CA for about 2 weeks in December... so... if you're good at math, that's 8 weeks in November and December that I'll be gone... Yep, two full months). Sooooo... There's a very good possibility I'm going to need to quit my job and find another source of income sometime soon. If anyone has any ideas, I'm very open to suggestions! I'm considering opening an Etsy Shop, or just finding another job... Or both... Or neither.  I have no idea.

I hope you're all doing really well!!