Nathan Detroit

Got back from Kiev late wednesday night. Thursday morning, mom and I took the metro over to the Russian Armed Forces Museum. The museum had a collection of weapons, uniforms, and exhibits from pre-czarist times through the war in Afghanistan. The Old russian cloaks and uniforms were surprisingly modern, with the slim tailored look and clean lines. Lots of guns and cannons. The musuem was also filled with young russian soldiers in formal military attire- with swords, and shiny black boots up to thier shins. There were also a bunch of older men with jackets literally covered in medals. There was some event going on upstairs, apparently. In the back yard, they had a snow covered collection of planes, tanks, ground vehicles, rocket and missle launchers. They also had a Hind helicopter gunship and a bunch of Migs. Supposedly they also had the wreckage of gary power's U2 spy plane, but I didn't see it anywhere. Must have been in Stealth mode.

That night, mom and I went to see the opening night of Taylor's school play: Guys and Dolls. Taylor had one of the leads as Nathan Detroit. He was fantastic in the role, captivating the audience. Out of the entire cast, he was the most fun to watch, athough the other two lead girls were phenomenal as well. Whitney and the other lead girl were excellent singers, and of the guys, only Taylor had a decent singing voice. It was so strange to see him slip into character and cease to be Taylor. He was really good and you could see how much he loved doing it. After the show, he told me he covered a few times, which means improvization in reacting to lines. I was really impressed.

After the play, we found Tay living it up in the changing room. Mom and I fell behind taylor as his entourage and he shook hand, high fived, and chatted with everyone we passed. We were flattered that a celebrety of his calibur would ride back home to the apartment with us.