My Fair Lady

Many weeks ago, I woke up with a song in my head.
That in itself is not uncommon.

But it was from an old musical, My Fair Lady. You know the one with Audrey Hepburn learning how to speak properly?
I added it to my netflix queue, because I hadn't seen it since probably middle school, then I forgot about it.
But on Saturday it came, and last night we curled up on our ugly couch to watch it on our new giant tv. (Not really, we watched it on our new imac, which by TV standards is small, but by our standards is large.)

I was surprised by how much I loved the film, and how I still knew the words to most of the songs.
But mostly I was surprised by how quickly the film went by! We had barely started watching before Eliza was correctly saying "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain" (As I child, I thought she was saying plane, like an airplane. didn't you?)
Then it was just a few short minutes until they were leaving for "The grand ball," as I thought it was.

"It was really only the length of a regular movie" I kept saying to myself. "I wonder why it seemed so long as a kid."
THEN,
there was an intermission.
and we looked and saw that there were two hours left.
TWO MORE hours.

No wonder it always seemed so long to me as a kid. It's a four hour long movie.

"What could possibly happen after the ball?" Travis and I wondered.
"I don't think I've ever seen past the intermission," Travis admitted.
and I think that I can picture Eliza at the ball, and I thought last night, as I fell asleep, "What songs are there after the intermission?"

The only I can think of is the dad singing "I'm getting married in the mornin'!"

Because, I'll admit, when we realized there were two hours left we went to bed.
I'll try to finish it later tonight or tomorrow, but who has two hours?

Gaaahhhhhoooon.




What a transformation!