A night at the (basketball arena) opera

Dinner with the lady's parents at the Red Star downtown -- the beets & feta and carrot cake with lemon cream cheese icing were tasty, the chicken & tomato-veggie sauce was more work than it was worth.

Cirque Du Soleil: Dralion was fine, about as world-beaty and fruity as you would expect, although the trampoline act was amazing and I was impressed by how convincing a job the ringer clown did. It's tragic how many people in the crowd were more focused on surreptitiously taking pictures and videos of the acts instead of watching them, then showing what they took to their seatmate(s) ... while the act was still going. It's pathetic. Taken Wednesday (after the second curtain call).