When Two Become One (like the Spice Girls song)

Sort of fell behind in the updates here. Plus side- I have everything and nothing to write about. Here we go!
Feb. 22nd was Dave's birthday. I was sly in secret cake plan- friends of ours from the office in Missoula let me use their house to make him an ice cream cake. It was baller. It was also nice to have a few people to share his day with in Missoula. We get lonely, and we had a great dose of good times and great people for a solid 7 days.
Outside of Missoula, I found my 16 year old best friend. She was so much like JMo that I fell in instant rapport with her and we were two peas in a pod all week long. I had a great time teaching that week. We had only a few funny things that happened during the auditions (On Dave's birthday!) on of which was a 8 or 9 year old saying aloud while we were explaining the auditions, and in complete silence- "I like sponges." I'm not too sure where that came from or why, but it tickled me. When asking for the kids to do a piece of their audition like they are the "toughest guys they know, like they just walked in off their harley" one little boy yells "My aunt has a big dog!" I at first just said okay..... Then later realized that a big dog is also a brand of motorcycle. Not nearly as funny when it wasn't random.
From a few weeks ago, I found some notes I took about the little 5-7 year olds. There was one little boy who had red hair and was a fire ball and he did a karate kick, said his name then "I talked to my lawyer and he said I'm 6." another girl graced us with "Sydney, age 7. What's up diggity dog?" Kids are hilarious.
When we were in Missoula last week, we were able to do a lot of awesome things like cook in our friends' house, hang out with people, karaoke with strangers- we are involved in a company wide scavenger hunt and are on a quest to get some awesome pictures of us doing random things on this list. One was karaoke with a stranger. We picked Sweet Caroline and had some awesome interpretive dance moves going on. It was baller. The show went well, we had a visit from one of the CEO's and got some great feed back and suggestions as to how to make our process stronger. It was needed.
This week, we hit a very interesting hippie town in the middle of no where. No cell towers, no restaurants, a grocery store with a large candy selection and not much else. We are staying at the Bates Motel equipped with aged hippies in speedos who hang out in the natural sulfur springs all day, making the place reek of patchouli and rotten eggs. The food is outlandishly expensive (a sandwich was $5.50 for turkey on wheat Dave said) so we have sustained on Lays Stacks chips and hot tamales. I have written a lot of letters and read three books. I mentioned Ellen Hopkins in my last post- read her. She is incredible.
The kids here were very interesting, they obviously want to participate but it was like pulling teeth to get anything out of them at some points. The show went over well, minus an unfortunate hitch with our accompanist and the difficulty of the score for our show. But, all things considered, it was a success. Plus we had 3 sets of identical twins in the show, two kids with rat tails and a gay. We all know how I love the gays, so that was exciting in such a small community.
AND today is the first day off Dave and I have had since January 3rd. We milked a cow, held a chicken, petted some horses, visited some kids from our cast and I got a massage. It's been like heaven.
That's about all the boring ramblings I have to update on, but I figured it was just as easy to roll them from two weeks into one post. Pretty sweet. On to a city outside of Kalispell tomorrow, we're going to catch a matinee of Alice in Wonderland before heading to our hotel. And only a few more weeks until spring break! Week off- here I come!