missizzy

Once again, mom and I went to the Kennedy Center for the final day of the year. But things there have changed; you now have to pay for memberships to get tickets for their evening shows on New Year's Eve, so we went for a matinee. We saw Girl from the North Country, the Bob Dylan jukebox musical set in Depression-era Minnesota, which had a good play, and great musical numbers, but in all honestly, these two had a lot less to do with one another than one might like. The big show, of course, was Frozen, and I spotted multiple little girls dressed up like Elsa, which was adorable. Less so was learning that the Grand Foyer now has security screenings for the Opera House set up from wall to wall on either side, cutting off the open space it used to be.
I actually stayed up until midnight this year, mostly because I was watching lilsimsie's twitch stream, which might well be what I do for a few more years as well. But it's hard to really celebrate when I'm not very hopeful about future years anymore. Waking up to the news of the earthquake in Japan didn't help...