Last night my mom, step-dad, Kelly, Stevie and her son Adriane went to Crossroads to see Awaited. I've heard great things about the show and definitely wanted to see it this year. Kelly and I arrived together and the inside of Crossroads was so festive! They had a large Christmas tree in the middle of the room and shops with hot chocolate, candy, scenes set-up where you could get family portraits, cookies, kettle corn, etc all for free!
It's crazy the feeling I get when I go to Crossroads. It reminds me SO MUCH of the way I feel when I really think about my trip to New Orleans. It's so nice to see familiar faces of people that shared the experience with me. I saw Brian (Moose) right away, saw Andre (who did great in the show.) It was great to see them! I took Kelly to see the photo gallery which included a couple pictures I had take in New Orleans as well as pictures of me with Nola natives. My mom and stepdad arrived as we were going through them, so I was able to tell them all stories about the pictures in the gallery; which was really great to share with them.
We sat down for the show and I absoultely LOVED it. I was expecting a play, with Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the three wise men, etc. but it was totally different. They had a very large band and the band played amazing renditions of Christmas songs and it was more of a ballet type show. People danced to the songs to tell the story. At one point it 'snowed' in the entire auditorium for a good 5 mins. It was like little tiny bubbles you'd get if you filled your sink up with too much dish soap. It was SO NEAT!
I would 100% recommend this show to everyone! There are a couple of days left this year to go see the show and the show has been done every year since 2007. Here are some pictures below:
