Staycation

As I mentioned, our staycation last week was hampered by the fact that we both got sick and ended up spending a lot more time on the couch watching TV than out exploring various Philly neighborhoods. We still did venture out a little bit, though - most notably to see Bob's Burgers Live, since we had already bought the tickets way in advance. We loaded ourselves up with DayQuil, brought a box of tissues and a bag of cough drops, and made it through the whole show even though it went until (gasp!) 10 pm.

Each of the voice actors is also a standup comedian, so the show started with each of them doing a bit of standup. The quality was pretty variable - but Dan Mintz ("It's hard to cry as a man... because things are going so well for us") and Eugene Mirman ("I saw a six year old boy in a fedora - you always think you'll know what to do when you see abuse") were both hilarious. Then they did a table read of an upcoming episode, which was the highlight of the evening - it was really fun to see how they played off each other.

It wrapped up with some audience Q&A, and someone used the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend, so that was sweet.

So, while the staycation wasn't quite as exciting as we had initially planned, we still had fun - and being sick while doing nothing for a week is definitely better than being sick for a week at work!