I Love Lucy Live

To A few weeks ago I saw commercials for an upcoming broadway play, "I Love Lucy Live" coming to Charlotte.

Being the I Love Lucy fan that I am- I knew I had to go! My sweet dad bought tickets for he, mom and I to go!

Our seats were great. They were orchestra seats. We were literally feet from the actors on stage. 

The show was set up like a recording of the show and we were part of the audience. The two episodes "filmed" were The Benefit & Lucy gets her eyes checked. I loved getting a behind the scenes look at the show!

I have many sweet childhood memories of watching I Love Lucy with my late Aut Bev. My Maw Maw Dancy whom I was very close to was nicknamed Lucy because of all the funny things that happened to her like Lucy's crazy antics on the show. 

Here are some pictures from the show!

You didn't have to tell me twice!

I Love Lucy was one of the first shows to use 3 cameras in the recording process.

Before the show there were two ladies dressed in 50s attire mingling in the audience. These ladies were part of the cast who brought a lot of interaction to the show!

To give you an idea of how close we were!

Mom and I!

The girl who played Lucy looked a lot like the real Lucy!

Ricky sounded just like the real Ricky!

This Lucy could do quite a jitterbug!

Samaritans Feet

When I returned from Africa a friend at church approached me about a missions project she was interested in doing. She was looking at going to Nicaragua in November to work with Samaritans Feet. This sounded like a great opportunity but I couldn't see logistically how I would take a week or more off from school to do this.

Last night I was on Facebook posting about the cool temperatures reminding me of Kenya when a Kenya teammate Connie popped up. She asked me what I was doing today and if I wanted to put shoes on kid's feet. I hesitantly thought about my schedule and said yes. She went on to tell me "it's a program called Samaritans Feet". Talk about another divine appointment! I knew God had dropped this opportunity in my path "for such a time as this."

"God doesn't place a desire to do ministry in our hearts without providing an opportunity." All he is looking for is our availability. 

I woke up to overcast skies but even the rain couldn't dampen my spirits! 

Over 500 pairs of shoes ready to be given away.

My favorite part of the day was seeing Shady Brook babies!