Carmina Burana - Our Experience

On Saturday night Matt and I went to the ballet! We thought it would be fun to do something a little different, and it was! Ballet Austin put on a performance of Carmina Burana. It was a collaboration between Ballet Austin, the Grammy nominated choir Conspirare (based in Austin) and The Austin Symphony Orchestra. It was a really neat experience and I'm really glad we went. Neither one of us cared too much for the ballet part of it, but the music was pretty cool! The choir was AMAZING! On our way home we summarized it in two different ways. Matt said there were boring parts, but most of it was really good. I said most of it was boring but the parts that were good were REALLY good. :) Matt understood the music a lot more than I did, so he found that to be a lot more entertaining.

We figured we should dress up a little for the event. I, however, have been wearing tennis shoes ONLY since my surgery! So we did something that I HATE doing.... we went shoe shopping. I wanted some cheap and comfortable shoes. I didn't really care too much what they looked like. We were in Target and were worn out and ready to go home when we finally found the perfect pair!! Or so we thought....


They were cheap, and when I tried them on the store and walked around in them, they were comfortable. BUT OF COURSE, not five minutes after leaving the apartment they started rubbing my heels. Before we even made it out of the parking garage at the event I felt each one literally CUT my heel. After checking with Matt to make sure I wasn't going to embarrass him, I popped those shoes off and walked barefoot for the rest of the evening. This was the end result...

It was worth the dirty feet. Walking barefoot took a bit of a toll on my feet as well, but it was MUCH better than the shoes! Here we are just before we left the apartment...

I think this is SUCH a cute picture of Matt. :)

Before the ballet started they were advertising the Nutcracker this Christmas. I mentioned to Matt that it might be fun to go to. After the show he asked me again and I said "NO WAY!" Haha! We had a good time and really enjoyed the music... but I just couldn't stand the ballet part of it. I know it is difficult and takes a lot of hard work and skill but it just isn't entertaining to me. There were PARTS of the performance that were really impressive.

Let me tell you up front, this video is over an hour long and I certainly don't expect ANYONE to watch it all! :) The music doesn't start until a little over a minute into it, but watch the first part of it. You'll probably recognize the music from a lot of movie scenes! Listen to the orchestra and the choir and how powerful it sounds! This movement was, in my opinion, definitely the coolest!