Romeo and Juliet

      This afternoon, as I sat sort-of doing my homework in the IES library, I decided that I wanted to do something tonight. My first thought was to look at the schedule for the Staatsoper, so I look it up online, and low and behold, the ballet of Romeo and Juliet is on. 

So Instead of sitting at a table doing my reading, I decide that I will go grab dinner, and read about International Finance while waiting in line for standing room tickets. I got there about two hours before the show started, an hour before the box office opened, and by the time I got to the window, the lower level "seats" were already sold out, so I had to buy a 3 euro ticket up on the balcony--aka the nosebleeds of the Staatsoper. Luckily, I was one of the first to get the balcony tickets, so I got the front row. There was a lot of leaning over the railing involved, and I couldn't exactly see what was happening on far stage right...but hey...the people with real seats right in front of me paid about 6 times more than I did for my ticket, so I really have nothing to complain about.

I love the fact that I can make a last minute decision to go to a ballet and it works out totally fine--aside from the fact that I was wearing tennis shoes and a t-shirt. But really, what else is new for me? I feel like I'm pretty much always under dressed :)