Last Saturday evening Claudia and I celebrated Valentine’s Eve by going to see VAREKAI by the Cirque du Soliel.
If you have never heard of the Cirque du Soliel, let me tell you it is totally amazing and well worth checking out if they come to a town or city near you!
It’s a two hour show, full of tumblers and acrobats and high-wire acts and jugglers and all that kind of thing - and the costumes are so colourful the world outside looks like it’s in black and white for a while after you leave. The music is also wonderful and the performance is stunningly good.
I was watching it and thinking - this is EXACTLY the kind of entertainment I’d have at a Royal Wedding in Faerie! If ever a movie were made of the Faerie Path series, I’d want the Cirque du Soliel to perform in the Great Hall in the Royal Palace. If you’d like to get an idea of what they’re like, google Varekai Cirque du Soliel -and you’ll find some websites to look at.
Totally brilliant!
Oh, and for Valentine’s Day itself, we had champagne and red roses delivered! Romantic, or what?
Cirque du Soliel
By Allan | Monday, 15 February 2010 at 14:32
Category: Writing
That sounds like the most PERFECT valentines day EVER! VERY romantic!
It sounds very romantic.I love red roses!
that sounds like the shen yun show they had here for chinese new year.( which was on valentines day) it was so colorful and very unbelievable to describe!
Hello mr frewin!!!
sorry i havent been gracing ur site lately…lol
jus got back in the city!
Belated Happy Hearts Day!!!
AFJ. The story of the show is a rewrite of the old Greek Icarus legend. Icarus made himself a pair of wings to fly to heaven - but he attached the wings with wax, and when he got too near the sun the wax melted and he fell into the sea and drowned. But in this new version, he falls into an enchanted forest and the weird and wonderful denizens of the forest teach him to fly again - and he also finds a bride!
wasnt it dadulis and icarus, sorry forgot to spell his name. father and son?
also he was trying to escape. the king asked him to make a maze so that if robbers came the minatar would get them. when he was done he and his son were locked up on a high tower for many years. finally icarus made a pair of wings for him and his son and as they were flying dadulis wanted to see what the gods see and went to high to the sky. the gods were made and the wax melted. his father watched in horror as his sun fell into the sea and plunged to his death…
AFJ. Way to go, Daniela. Gold star for knowledge of Grek Myths! Now, for the platinum star - do you know why Daedelus and Icarus were in King Minos’ prison in the first place? (I’ve been to the ruins of the palace in Crete, by the way!)It has to do with a ball of string…
ok I a qestion about greek myths….how do you learn all that you know?!?!?!?! i love myths but i can never find good books about them! i know that may seem crazy because im sure there are a lot out there but the ones i find in the libary i go to stink and i dont want to just search on the internet because that can be very missleading (i once resarched octipuses and it came up with a site that said there was a rare type that lived in trees! it was crazy but also very funny)
It’s spelled “Cirque de Soleil”, actually.
yes yes i do! the ball of string was the key out of the maze! the minotar was acually the kings step son! icarus was an amazing archetec(cant spell!!) the king was impressed =D with him and asked him to make him a maze and only icarus and the king new how to get out. which was the ball of string. but the king didnt want to take any chances so he locked up dedulis and icarus in a tower filled with a life of luxury. but what good is living in a palace if your a prisoner in it?
THANK YOU ALLAN! i know a lot about greek mythology. i even wrote a book about it! i made it up myself. =D
AFJ. Regina - I’m sitting here looking at the programme that I bought at the show - in England at least, they spell themselves with a “Du”.
Liz - I bought lots of different books - I have a whole shelf of mythology - not just Greek, but Asian, South American, Celtic, African, Roman, Norse, Native American etc. Maybe you could look on Amazon or some similar online book site and check out the books that get good customer reviews? (By the way - for all you guys who ask me where I get ideas from - the old Myths are a really great place to look. A favourite author of mine once wrote: there is nothing new under the sun, all a modern writer can do is to paint the old stories with their own colours.)
We read that myth in English Class.
Didn’t they get locked up because the maze they made was too dificult for the king to understand?
I’m not sure thats right, but it sounds familiar..
Isn’t that group amazing?
I saw them on the television and also saw them on vacation one year.
I heard they have different groups of preformers all over the world.
And the roses and champagne is really sweet.
ya me too. i dont just love greek mythology, i like all of it! it really takes me away from earth when i read mythology…
i like to read anything i can get my hands on. i LOVE to read fantasy books. i just want to live in a book where you can make your own world, i never liked the real world, i just want to live in a fantasy.
allan- are you edric and is your wife tania? cuz your love reminds me of theirs! =D
no wait! oberon and titania =D
BOTH! I CANT MAKE UP MY MIND!
AFJ. Daniela - I never really gave myself such a big role in the books - I thought of myself more as Lord Brython - which would make Claudia Hopie, I guess. Yes, I’d be fine with that. Besides which It would be totally cool to live in their castle made of shells!
daniela, im the same way with wanting to live in a fantesy! every fantesy book i read i just want to be part of it
allan- ohhhhhh. man would i like to live in a house made of seashells. =D im trying to picture it…. WOW it’s beautiful!!! =D
liz- i know right? but there’s on thing im afraid of… we all have to grow up sometime…. =(
AFJ. Hey - I’m still wandering through fantasy worlds, Daniela - and I’m ANCIENT. Oh, by the way, I asked my wife Claudia who she’d like to be in the books. She wants to be EDEN - she likes the white hair and the power and the melancholia and stuff. But this means I’d be VALENTINE…which is interesting because in real life Claudia is way younger than I am!
ohhhhhhhhh =O you do not look ancient allan you look young =)
Mr. Jones, I was just wondering if you’ve been anywhere else in the world for vacations and stuff and where?
AFJ. Thank you Daniela! Addie - we go to Europe most often - to see Claudia’s parents in Germany. Also, France, Greece, Jersey, Scotland - but we do have plans for more exotic places when we get the time. Oh, I know for sure that Claudia has been to Japan - and some other places I can’t remember - she used to work for a fashion designer and travel all over to international fashion shows.
do you know any other languages? and she has! lucky iv’e always wanted to go to Japan! i know to speak a little bit of japanese
my english teacher was born in Japan…..and speaking of gemany we saw this really cool video of the Berlin Wall falling it was really cool
and Daniela-i have no fears of growing up my mom is well i dont want to say OLD but not young and she acts even more of a kid than i do soooo it runs in my blood to be wierd 
AFJ. Daniela - I speak a little bit of basic German and a tiny bit of French - but that’s it. Claudia is the amazing linguist in my life - when I first met her she had only lived in England for 4 years and she had absolutely no German accent at all - she sounded totally English. She would make a great spy!
afj-wow. imagine she was?? that would be soo cool =D
liz- yes you are right infact only the kids in my family are weird. i like being weird its fun =D but all the adults are, well…. not creative what so ever… only my gran… i like sticking out of the crowd dont you guys????
Mr. Jones did u base the book in England 4 a reason??? or do u just like the idea of them all in England. and is the castle that is in the mortal world real???
AFJ. Miranda - the main reason Faerie Path takes place in England is that I live there, and also because the Faerie Court is a little bit like the Royal Court in Tudor England in the 16th Century. The palace at Hampton Court is real - I went there for research - I didn’t actually find the place where you can get into Faerie, but I think I was close a couple of times. I certainly visited the room in the Mortal World that is the equivalent of Tania’s bedchamber!
I’m drinking Cinnamon Nut Swirl Coffee. It tastes DELICIOUS!
Daniela- yes i do LOVE standing out of the crowd mainly because if you always fit in then you most likly arent expressing your self because everyone is different and most people that i know do express them self and the stand out i just stand out more than the normal person
one time me and my cousins were having a contest to see who could stay up all night, so my cousin made some coffee. i have no idea what in the world she put in it but i couldnt sleep for a day and a half! i was big time hyper. the good thing is that i won! so addie i dont know how you could drink that stuff! oh well. =D do u drink coffee allan? how bout you all you guys reading this?
AFJ. Daniela - I used to drink a huge amount of coffee - when I was in my teens, I would chain-drink cups of coffee all the time I was writing. I had a clanky old typewriter in those days and I’d write by cutting up rolls of white wallpaper so they’d fit in the machine - that way I didn’t have to keep changing pieces of paper - and I ended up with a really impressive scroll! But then something went wrong in my stomach and I became allergic to coffee!!! So now I drink lots of Pepsi Max and tea instead.
Coffee is good as long as you have it the way you like it.
I like coffee with half coffee, half milk, and a little bit of sugar.
I am also a HUGE fan of STARBUCKS Coffee.
It is DELICIOUSER then the Cinnamon Nut Swirl Coffee.
Even though I’m not supposed to drink it. he he he.
addie- i think when im in college i will drink coffee because idk if im gonna have to stay up all night doing h.w. but other than that i did try the cinnamon nut swirl at starbucks and it was good. i couldnt sleep, but it was good. =D
COFFEE!!!!! I wonder y its spelt c-o-f-f-e-e… isnt coffee supposed 2 hav an opposite effect on kids??? I mean my 5th grade science teacher would giv us all coffee( REALLY CHEAP COFFEE) 2 calm us down… yumm coffee
allan- i wonder how you can all of a sudden get allergic to coffee?
aimee- ! really?! man i wounder why my body doesnt want coffee. i get all hyper and jittery. even with cotton candy! when me and my family came back from disney land it was late so i ate some cotton candy to keep me awake. u shoulda seen me after i ate it! i climed our avacado tree screaming and shouting! i got in trouble but i didnt care. =D
wow! daniela you must get REALLY hyper! haha and i personally do not like coffee but ive only ever tried it black. and aimee, i think it’s spelled c-o-f-f-e-e because English is just crazy! i mean there is ALWAYS exseptions. for exsample, one english rule says “Here” and “There” are never the subject of a sentence. but in that sentence “Here” and “There” ARE the subject!
liz-yes and to this day it haunts me…. and you must be an a plus student! =D
Daniela-i am deffinetly NOT a plus student in English thats just something i happened to notice im accually really bad at English i just have never understood it all that well and after 3rd grade you are just learning the same things over and over just in much more detail
Wow! Another person in the world drinks Pepsi Max? I thought I was the only one…
AFJ. Reese - no, there are definitely two of us!
whats pepsi max???
AFJ. Faerie cordial! And fizzy, too!
Pepsi Max is really good. By the way, if anybody happens to see a new book called “The Secret Life of Melinda Rose” tell me, because then i get to sue the supposed “author”. You see, I supposedly “lost” my journal with the story in it, but i know somebody threw it out and another person found it and they published it. >;(
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