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After first intermission the two seats next to mine
on the left became vacant because two women had
moved to vacant seats in the front-row.

And then something unexpected happened during
second intermission!
A man next to the two empty seats in my row
suddenly made the stuffed George sit next to me!!

I wondered, were his grandchildren in some rear seats
and he wanted to keep the nearby seats for them.
But he caame back just before end of the intermission,
made George sit on his lap (my description is exact),
and saw the ballet happily.
"I'm curious! Curious about that!!!"

Finally he left the theater with only George's
face peeping out of his backpack.
That means.....he made George see the ballet.
That George looks too old to be a souvenir....

To take up the main subject a little:
I have been a great fan of Ferri since "Romeo &
Juliet" last year. I've never seen "Manon" before.
I could see her expressive face from my seat in the
second row and I was touched by this performance.
That's just what Ferri would expect of a character
prima ballerina. I was enchanted.

ABT announced her retirement at the next
performance of "Romeo & Juliet".
I wanted to go back-stage to ask for her autograph,
but where was the back-stage??

I couldn't get her autograph.
But I could get a picture with George!
(After all, this story goes back to George!)

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" Where are the apples ?? "

Don't worry. Look carefully.
Here !! the tree was heavy with apples.
The owner of these farms said that the day we went there
was the last day for picking apples.

We just barely made it !! It was great for us.

We found actually many apples fallen on the ground
more than the ones on tree.
We picked 4 kinds of apples.
FUJI, ROME, STAYMAN, MACOUN.

"This is tasty !! That is also sweet !! "
We rubbed an apple roughly with our jeans and
tasted a polished one as soon as we picked it.

So we had relaxing time, breathing fresh air and walking
all over the spacious farms. We felt pleasant.
And also the homemade dougnats, which we ate at the farms
after having returned with a heavy bucket filled with apples,
were fantastic !!

We want to go back there next year !!

The farms where we went were DRESSEL FARMS.
From Manhattan, go up north on Interstate 87 and get off at exit 18.

You will find the farms easily with
such a cute weather-apple.

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