Chapter 10 – The arrival
So we made it back to the Cloakes in time to see Dan off before his opening night which was great. We also knew that when he returned we would be waiting with an awesome surprise, Pips and Josh were coming up from Modesto to surprise him and bring us back home with them. The secret had been a hard one to keep for so long but was worth it even though Dan only came home at 2am as we were just nodding off after trying to stay up to surprise him. It was so good to see Pips after so long and to finally meet Josh, her husband, who is such an awesome guy. But I suppose I can talk more about them once our Californian adventure begins so I need to brag a little more about Dan and the Cloakes.
On Thursday evening, the 26th March 2009, we were blessed to go and watch Dan in possibly his final play performance called “the good woman of Setzuan”. Dan was acting as one of the more central characters – the water seller they called Wong – who pretty much held the play together with his interactions between all the other major characters, the gods and the audience. Dan was absolutely amazing and the production itself was a spectacle for us. It was such a blessing and honour to finally watch Dan at his gifting and see how great his acting had become. The play ended a little melodramatically allowing the audience to leave with the concept of searching for their own individual answer for the truth to the plays plot. It was a very clever and encouraging message from the play for us to try and work through our own versions of the good and evil battles in our lives.
Anyway, that was the deeper side of Dan’s acting and showed how good he has become at changing character. The lighter side of Dan’s acting ability, possibly my favorite side has always been his comedic ability which we got to see snippets of at the 11:07 competition on Friday evening. Basically this competition is more like ‘Whose line is it anyway?’ from Drew Carey which is an impromptu show in which the actors make stuff up on the spot. Dan was very good in this type of audience interaction as were the other actors who participated. And thus ended our experiences of Dan’s acting for now but future plays or possibilities may come our way – movies… I also forgot to mention the ice hockey game we saw with Dan and Robbie playing against the Canadian hockey girls team of trinity college. It was hilariously funny with some exciting moments in wich dan and Robbie both scored goals and some of the guys took some amazingly acrobatic dives to avoid crushing the girls. In the end though, the American boys team made up of guys who couldn’t skate or play hockey won over the girls who could. Proud times!!
As for our Canadian adventure, it was quickly ending and we still had a few places to explore. Unfortunately, Dan wasn’t able to show us exactly where Smallville was filmed but we did see the area from distance so to speak. Friday was a great chill day with Dan, Pips and Josh. We asked if any of them were keen to go explore the swinging bridges of Capilano until we heard that it costs $30 each and Lynn Canyon down the road had a swinging bridge for free. So guess where we went, Lynn canyon and it was totally worth it as the bridge was awesome and about 50m above a raging river with some small waterfalls. We also managed a short hike to twin falls and took some brilliant photos before having to leave to help Dan get some work done at a photo gallery in town. Not entirely sure how the homework assignment was supposed to work but Dan wandered around the studio studying each artists representation of their art through photography making notes along the way. Ang and I were more interested in how the artists managed to get such cool photos – one even had some ghostly figures in it.
Unfortunately, our time was ending and we had to start our farewells with the whole de Flourio clan. Pierre and Betty and Robbie had come over to join us for dinner and a flick after which we said our sad goodbye’s and then they were gone. Dan was a different story as I waited up for him to return from his play to show him our wedding pics and it felt like we hadn’t spent enough time with him. But it was so great to finally see him again and watch his acting and spend time catching up and seeing how good he is and life is for him here. It was a sad Sunday morning at 4am as we said goodbye to Dan, Carl and Jan before heading south towards the American boarder ending our amazing Canadian adventure and begining our new adventure – the great WILD WILD WEST!!!
So we made it back to the Cloakes in time to see Dan off before his opening night which was great. We also knew that when he returned we would be waiting with an awesome surprise, Pips and Josh were coming up from Modesto to surprise him and bring us back home with them. The secret had been a hard one to keep for so long but was worth it even though Dan only came home at 2am as we were just nodding off after trying to stay up to surprise him. It was so good to see Pips after so long and to finally meet Josh, her husband, who is such an awesome guy. But I suppose I can talk more about them once our Californian adventure begins so I need to brag a little more about Dan and the Cloakes.
On Thursday evening, the 26th March 2009, we were blessed to go and watch Dan in possibly his final play performance called “the good woman of Setzuan”. Dan was acting as one of the more central characters – the water seller they called Wong – who pretty much held the play together with his interactions between all the other major characters, the gods and the audience. Dan was absolutely amazing and the production itself was a spectacle for us. It was such a blessing and honour to finally watch Dan at his gifting and see how great his acting had become. The play ended a little melodramatically allowing the audience to leave with the concept of searching for their own individual answer for the truth to the plays plot. It was a very clever and encouraging message from the play for us to try and work through our own versions of the good and evil battles in our lives.
Anyway, that was the deeper side of Dan’s acting and showed how good he has become at changing character. The lighter side of Dan’s acting ability, possibly my favorite side has always been his comedic ability which we got to see snippets of at the 11:07 competition on Friday evening. Basically this competition is more like ‘Whose line is it anyway?’ from Drew Carey which is an impromptu show in which the actors make stuff up on the spot. Dan was very good in this type of audience interaction as were the other actors who participated. And thus ended our experiences of Dan’s acting for now but future plays or possibilities may come our way – movies… I also forgot to mention the ice hockey game we saw with Dan and Robbie playing against the Canadian hockey girls team of trinity college. It was hilariously funny with some exciting moments in wich dan and Robbie both scored goals and some of the guys took some amazingly acrobatic dives to avoid crushing the girls. In the end though, the American boys team made up of guys who couldn’t skate or play hockey won over the girls who could. Proud times!!
As for our Canadian adventure, it was quickly ending and we still had a few places to explore. Unfortunately, Dan wasn’t able to show us exactly where Smallville was filmed but we did see the area from distance so to speak. Friday was a great chill day with Dan, Pips and Josh. We asked if any of them were keen to go explore the swinging bridges of Capilano until we heard that it costs $30 each and Lynn Canyon down the road had a swinging bridge for free. So guess where we went, Lynn canyon and it was totally worth it as the bridge was awesome and about 50m above a raging river with some small waterfalls. We also managed a short hike to twin falls and took some brilliant photos before having to leave to help Dan get some work done at a photo gallery in town. Not entirely sure how the homework assignment was supposed to work but Dan wandered around the studio studying each artists representation of their art through photography making notes along the way. Ang and I were more interested in how the artists managed to get such cool photos – one even had some ghostly figures in it.
Unfortunately, our time was ending and we had to start our farewells with the whole de Flourio clan. Pierre and Betty and Robbie had come over to join us for dinner and a flick after which we said our sad goodbye’s and then they were gone. Dan was a different story as I waited up for him to return from his play to show him our wedding pics and it felt like we hadn’t spent enough time with him. But it was so great to finally see him again and watch his acting and spend time catching up and seeing how good he is and life is for him here. It was a sad Sunday morning at 4am as we said goodbye to Dan, Carl and Jan before heading south towards the American boarder ending our amazing Canadian adventure and begining our new adventure – the great WILD WILD WEST!!!
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