Day 150: Ex(ile)-types?

Exile #2 and I sat next to these two baby jaguars at a performance of Go, Diego, Go Live! this afternoon. Thanks to a top-tip from my sister, we took Exile #3's two car booster seats (without the backs) to give the girls an extra few inches and a better view.

Meanwhile E5N1 slept soundly in his pushchair (stroller) while his grandparents walked him around the city streets. A relief for all of us.

The girls seemed to really enjoy the show - for tonight they are exhausted and have gone to bed very willingly - it will be interesting to see what if anything they have to say about it tomorrow. For my part, I thought it was a very good show, slightly let down by some hard-to-hear/follow dialogue - although to be fair to actors and sound-technicians, quite a few parents in the audience seemed to think that it was acceptable to talk loudly to their children throughout the performance. Exile #2 wondered if it is just that people are so used to wall-to-wall TV programming that it doesn't occur to them not to just 'switch-off' what is going on and have whatever debate is on their minds. However, I suspect that in general people are quiet in movie-theaters and that what we observed was parents so worried about their children's behaviour that they forgot about their own. I'm sure I'm guilty of that all too often.