Stories from the Past Weekend

The first weekend of Christmas Town got off to a good start despite the rain on Friday night. Even with the rain, it was better than last year’s opening night when we had a severe winter storm with freezing rain topped with about four inches of snow.

As the actors were getting dressed for Saturday night, two interesting things came to light: the first was the fact that our “Joseph and Mary” have done this event as boyfriend/girlfriend (they had just started dating a few weeks before—it made for a very public date!), then as fiancé/fiancée, and now as a married couple!  Maybe next year, we will have a live actor for the baby!

The photo on the left comes from this year; the photo on the right is from 2011.

Then our “wise man” shared the following story from a previous Christmas Town:

As I was giving my Magi presentation I noticed a man standing off to the side of the main crowd with his cell phone pointed at me. He seemed to be rather intent upon tracking my entire performance. I have become accustomed to looking out into a sea of cell phones, but this man seemed quite serious about his work. At the end of the evening as I was passing through the museum lobby on my way to the dressing room, I saw the man and we greeted each other. He said, “I hope you don’t mind, but I was Skyping your performance to my mother. She just doesn’t have anything like this where she lives.” I said I didn’t mind at all, and I asked him where his mother lived. His one word reply surprised me. His mother lives in Holland.