I resumed my picture taking in the Showroom then went to Pat hancocks
presentation about hybridization and selection of plants by triangles. It was
quite informative. We did Inn and Out for lunch once again then stopped into
Ben Hanings presentation on pests and disease. He is quite good. Afterwards I
located Mel and also Dave Kesserling who set up the projector and the iphone to
VGA screen cast so that whatever was on the phone was on the big screen. The
presentation went quite well. Afterwards, David showed his viewer presentation
which is a First Class viewer only application. It has potential since that is
probably all that people want anyway.

We picked up a hamd and turkey sub at Krogers and had that for dinner before we
left for the Opera. It was smooth sailing all the way to the Ross St exit on 75
then into the Opera house parking garage. We had parking next to the escalator
which was convenient.
Our dress circle seats were perfect. We were in the
center of Row A, one seat from the erfect center of the House. We attended the
pre performance lecture by the choir director who was Ukrainian. It was a good
insight into the writings of Pushkin and how Pushkin may even be better than
Shakespeare since he covered everything, prose, poetry, literature.
The performance lasted 3 1/2 hours and was really good. Great singing, a good
orchestra, a nice chorus, beautiful staging and the music of Tchaikovsky was a
pleasure to attend. I really enjoyed it. Egress was excellent as well.
Because we were in the center of the row I thought we would wait a long time to
get out but it was easy.
We walked down the stairs to the escalator and then down into the parking
garage. Attendants directed traffic in the garage, all the entrances were
converted to exits and all the roads were one way out. We easily went down the
street and right onto the 75 South ramp. We got back to the hotel in Plano in
about 20 minutes. The parties were over and nobody was around. It was an
excellent day however.