Lately...

Hi!

Happy almost Spring (hopefully)! All is well here in the land of sausage and beer. It's still rather chilly but I could almost swear I saw the sun today. That's a good sign:).

I figure it's time for another good ole fashioned pictorial tour. Whadddya say? (I'll assume you said "yes.")

Julie came to visit me in January. Here's proof! Julie + My Kitchen in Essen!

Further proof: Julie + Me + My leftover stage makeup from the show

We got bored with Germany so we hopped a plane to London.

Thank you, Ryanair, for the dirt cheap tickets. (4 Euro each way. I KNOW, RIGHT?!!!)

Pretty hotel pillow in our pretty hotel

On our way to see the London Eye

The London Eye! It's the biggest Ferris wheel in the world and overlooks Buckingham Palace and Big Ben

Our view of London from the ferris wheel

More of pretty London

Sid and Jules inside the London Eye.

That's Big Ben in the background!

Julie also came to see my show & I had to show her my cool little poster-type-thing in the city

That's meeeeeeeee:)

Don't hurt your neck. I don't know how to fix this yet.

NEXT UP: HAMBURG!! I got to go back to Hamburg for the first time since I left the conservatory there. I had missed everyone sooo much. I came right in time for exams...which, I found, are so much more fun when you're just watching!

Tap exam starring some of my very favorite people! (Don't worry. I said, some :))

The gals

My boys! Just so you know these are the students that were in my semester last year. I heart them.

fuzzy art.

Bad photography with good friends. Marco the great!

On to Valentine's Day! My Valentine is on tour this year so we celebrated Vday a little early because he happened to be in town. I love him so!

Gettin' ready for my hot date

He met me at the train station:)

We went to Karawane, the Arabian restaurant that we love so much

The ceiling at Karawane

DELICIOUS. I'm hungry just thinking about it. When you come visit I have to take you to this restaurant.

Ryan agrees.

I told you it was good.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Back in Hamburg for an audition. I was there three times in a matter of four weeks attending various auditions. It feels like I'm there so often that I might as well move there...:)

Saw this sign in the bathroom at one of my auditions and laughed myself into a coughing fit.

Bear with me. It's worth it.

Great Theatre in Hamburg. Hoping to work there next year!

Made a pit stop to visit my favorite Hamburg-er, Lili! She's getting so big!

This photo captures our relationship perfectly.

Visitors from afar!! Some awesome friends of mine are backpacking through Europe for two glorious months. I haven't verified this with them but I'm sure that Essen, Germany was the highlight of their trip:). Check out Rachel and Katie's wild and crazy adventures at

http://thewoodmeregang.blogspot.com/

I just realized that I don't actually have pictures of Rachel and Katie. Boo. But in my defense I was ill and swamped and having too much fun to remember to document the goings on.

Here's their nifty welcome packet!

There's a lot of fun German candy and handmade arts-and-crap waiting for you too. That is, if you visit:).

Last up: Promos:)

Promos are essentially very short concert versions of our show. A live commercial if you will. This particular promo was at a very large department store downtown. It was packed. I was sick as a dog. Good times.

Just before we started. I'm on the poster somewhere. Can you find me?

There was a ginormous cake afterwards. The sign says, "The cake will be cut by the stars of the musical Buddy"

This is Dominik H. He's my Buddy. (Man, am I punny!)

All of these photos were posted online by fans, and boy am I grateful. I didn't think to take out my camera until after the performance

Sid and Ursula doo-woppin' the morning away

Tulle makes the world go round.

Lewin and Dominik S. in the background

Lalala

If you look at my eyes in this one you can see that I'm just a big sicky-poo covered in glitter.

I think we're singing "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" at this point

"Saturday night and I just got paid...."♪♪♫

Take a bow and head back to the theatre

But not before collecting our obscenely large bouquets

After this I went back to work and, by the grace of God alone, did two shows.

It's been two weeks since that promo. I feel a thousand times better and even did another triple show Saturday last week. And as sleepy as I am, I can't help but mention how blessed I feel to do what I love. I wrote my moms the other day to tell them how absurd it is that I get a standing ovation everyday just for doing my job. It's a dream and I give God all the glory.

And with that, I bid you all goodnight. Sleep well knowing that I am diligently performing my duty here in Germany and, of course, taking myself very seriously.

All my love,

s i d.