I almost made it to Chicago. The musical that is. I had tickets to Chicago the musical for last night’s performance but had to miss it due to the lousy weather here in Ottawa. I had plans to drive to Barrie from Ottawa to pick up my niece and head to the evening show of Chicago the musical.
Environment Canada changed my plans:
“Environment Canada is predicting patchy freezing rain across eastern Ontario on Saturday afternoon. After that ends, another round of freezing rain will develop this evening and persist for much of the night. Freezing rain will slowly change to snow overnight as colder temperatures move in. Snowfall accumulation of 5 to 10 cm are possible by Sunday”
Even though I left Ottawa in the morning, with the hope of missing the freezing rain, it started earlier than predicted. I only got as far as Carleton Place then turned around and came home. What should have been a 15 minuted drive, turned into close to an hour with too many cars in the ditch. An ordinarily long drive to Barrie and back would have turned into a nightmare.
The daughter of a family friend plays Velma (front center, with short dark hair). Reviews have been awesome; I am so disappointed that I did not get there.
The good news is I was able to transfer the Chicago tickets to my niece’s name, so she and a friend were able to enjoy the show. Lucky for them, the drive from Barrie to Orillia was much quicker (with no freezing rain) than Ottawa to Barrie to Orillia.
That’s Canadian weather for you, unpredictable! I hear it’s just as unpredictable in Chicago too.
