wolverine, green tea, and salsa dancing

so we got a phone call early saturday morning to see if we wanted 4 tickets to see hugh jackman's show. um, yes please. we had plans to kayak around lake ontario all day so we ran to the harbor and kayaked for a couple hours, which was amazing by the way. we had to literally run from the harbor to the hotel to change and meet up with karl and lesley. lets just say we broke records. 

we got to the princes of whales theater and got our tickets which were 3rd row amazing seats. um, thank you:) so the show starts and hugh jackman comes out singing, like THE WOLVERINE. i didnt realize wolverine was soooo talented. he is a true one man show. he was singing, dancing, entertaining, acting, story telling, and interacting with the audience....this is where my story begins.

mid-show hugh jackman comes into the audience and walks over to our aisle. well since the husband and i didnt eat anything all day (from kayaking) the husband quickly made his green tea cocktail (he drinks about two full glass pitchers of this a day) and brought it in his bag. he was sneakily drinking it when hugh walks over and the husband tries to sneakily put it back in his bag.

hugh "what do you have there?"

husband "me? oh nothing. nothing (face turns red)"

hugh "no really, what do you have?"

husband pulls out his bottle and shows him his green tea. hugh was stunned (he thought the husband was trying to sneak a pic). hugh opens it and sniffs around all wolverine like. 

hugh "is this really green tea???"

husband "well i added a little peppermint and stevia"

hugh "oh really?! youre so new age. i love it." he put his lips right on that bottle and drank my husbands green tea! "i love stevia. here, try this... (he runs up on stage and grabs his tea mug) its called throat coat. i got it at whole foods." the husband and hugh are just exchanging tea during the show. what?

husband "its good. it has a little bit of licorice root in it."

hugh "youre so new age." (wolverine was impressed)

hugh "david, come with me" oh no. so embarrassing. he takes the husband up on stage with him. he makes a few comments on the husbands muscles and then next thing you know he rips off the husbands cardigan and flings it at me. "ow, owww!" 

hugh "so what do you do david?"

husband "uhhhh...i write."

hugh "oh really, what do you write?"

husband "im a writer of.....words" hahhaha (crowd laughs). i actually write screenplays."

hugh "oh do you...well, i dont know if you know this, but im an actor. do you think there is a part in there for me?"

husband "do you want to play a buddhist munk?"

(throughout the show hugh kept referring to this)

then he calls his two backup singer girls to come stand by the husband and then he takes a seat by me. im now sitting by THE WOLVERINE. except the husband quickly yells out, "my wife is a dancer!" hugh turns to me and says, "oh really kelene. well follow me then." next thing you know we are all on stage. the husband, me, hugh, and the backup girls. 

hugh "so you dance? what style do you like? do you like to salsa?"

me "yes, of course (duh, anything with you as long as we are touching:))" 

music begins to play. hugh grabs me and we start to mamba around the floor. it was kind of big blur. he did ask the husband if it would be ok, and of course the husband was cool with it. next he turns to the husband.

hugh "what kind of music do you like, and dont say any of that new age crap?"

husband "old school rock."

hugh "very nice. band, give us some rock" 

all of a sudden we all begin to mash pit on stage. we are all just jumping around and the husband even whips out some air guitar. and then out of nowhere hugh decides to chest bump the husband, which makes him all most fly across the stage. he literally got taken down by the wolverine. so cool. then they do it again and make it a real good one. 

hugh walks us back down to our seats and gives me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. im in love:) he thanked us for being good sports while he tried some improv with us during his show. anytime hugh, anytime. 

i was really so embarrassed. its weird because i am on stage every night for my job and i love it, but these kind of things embarrass me almost to death. 

all four of us went back stage after and hung out in wolverine's dressing room. we chatted with his little boy and then hugh came in. he was so cool. really. not just saying that since we got to dance together:) he was genuinely cool. we chatted for a bit and talked about how our shows are going on at the same time, and life and stuff. the show was amazing. he blew me away. i had no idea how much talent that guy has. so fun. everyone came up to us after and asked if that was planned. really, like 20 people. no it was not planned.

the end.

ps, i didnt let my husband drink out of that tea bottle until i did first. duh:)