Dinner and a Bit 'o Juneau Culture

Today was a quiet Saturday at home, working on projects and feeding the jays.  We now have several who will take peanuts out of your hand, which is pretty neat.  We have three deck chairs that back up to the windows, and they keep a close eye on what we are doing.  The boldest one may be the one the our friend Jim Hauck calls PJ.  He (she?) will push all the others out of the way until it has its beak full and cannot pick up another peanut.  They when it flys off to bury it bounty, the others get a chance.

Neil was in the garden today and noticed a lot of small holes that have been dug in the garden.  It is either jays who have dug up their peanuts, or as he suspects the squirrels finding the nuts and digging them up and eating them.  There have been a couple of squirrels who have been running across the garden with peanuts when we haven't been feeding them, so who knows.

The Baranof Hotel Was Built in 1939 in Downtown Juneau

Tonight, we had dinner out with friends Jim and Elaine before we went to a play.  We went to the Gold Room at the Baranof Hotel in downtown Juneau.  The food and service there is always great, as it was again tonight.  Kinda pricey, but you don't go out to dinner to save money around here.  We then drove across the bridge and over to Douglas for the play at Perseverance Theater.

The Perseverance Theater is a  Great, Yet Small Professional Theater

The play was the comedy/farce was written in 1915 by John Buchan, and made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.  They had an exhibit about Alfred Hitchcock at the theater, and here is a quote:  "An actor came to me and wanted to know about his character.  I told him it was in the script, but he asked 'what's my motivation?'.  I told him 'Your Salary'."

It was a very funny and creative play in that all of the parts in the play are played by four actors (three men and one woman).  Here is how the theater website describes it:

"The chase is on: Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1930s film comes to the stage in this Tony-award winning comedy adaptation. Four actors create the entire cast of over 100 characters in this tale about foreign spies, glamorous heroines, sudden captures and narrow escapes. One actor plays Richard Hannay while a second actress plays three women he is entangled with. A pair of actor-clowns portray cops, spies, Scottish innkeepers, evil professors and even the occasional inanimate object."

It was a really fun and enjoyable play, and the four of us had front row seats for the hilarity.  A great night out in Juneau.  If you ever have a chance to see this adaptation, don't miss it.  We are going to add the Hitchcock movie to our Netflix cue.  Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Neil and Pamela