I took my kids and wife to see Wicked (the musical) last weekend at Arizona State.
It was hot. 118 degrees hot.
The play was good, but my kids wanted to walk over this bridge to leave afterward, which left me confused on where I had parked my car. The heat was melting my brain.
So I pulled up the vehicle location on my iPhone using our Mobile Map application:
The blue dot is my iPhone & it told me that my car was East of me. That’s all I needed to know, but didn’t necessarily know what direction was East (Gammage is a big round spaceship looking building so direction is not immediately apparent).
The new iPhone has a compass built in — perfect. I wish I had this when I was in the Army:
So I head East & see my car and note that it’s in the 6th space:
Looking at the iPhone in satellite view & zooming in, we show I’m in the 5th space, as well as where I am when I pull this up out of curiosity:
So then we get going & even after 10 minutes of driving, it still shows as 118 degrees. Note that the AC & the seat coolers are cranked as high as they can go…
We were in a hurry since the play was really long and our babysitter needed to leave at 5. Unfortunately at one point I saw we were in Mesa and I realized I missed my turn, costing me 7.42 miles while I drove the wrong direction.
I was a little preoccupied trying not to burn myself on the steering wheel, etc. to notice I had passed up the 101.
Apart from it being insanely hot, and my missing my turn to get home to the babysitter on time, it was a great day — This is my second time seeing Wicked & it’s a fantastic play (The Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch’s perspective).
My 7 year old son Ryan had this to say: Wizard of Oz – 1 star. Wicked – 4 stars. He’s hard to please but Wicked worked better than a 70 year old movie apparently.
Rob.