A Botanical Stroll at WaterFire!

Good evening readers! Okay...let me begin with the fact that I was so excited to wear the Botanical Stroll Dress to my gig tonight. Every year, Opera Providence invites 30 or so opera singers to sing at WaterFire in Providence, RI. All of the singers spread out in groups of two and sing opera arias to canned accompaniment, lit by one or two torchbearers (people holding a lit torch). This is my 3rd year doing it since being involved in Opera Providence's production of Treemonisha a few years ago. Of course, I was wearing Anthro! I got a Botanical Stroll Dress for a steal ($66 due to slight damage to the left strap).

Anthro: Botanical Stroll Dress ($89.99 on sale)
Anthro: Necklace ($9.99 on sale!)
JCrew: Scarf

I HATE looking at photos of me while I'm singing, I find them quite unflattering, but this is the only photo of the dress and this photo was snapped seconds before an ember from one of the torches flew into my hair!!!!! This happened RIGHT at the beginning of the aria ("Ach, ich Fuhl's - Mozart).

The other torchbearer saw it, and snuffed it out by patting my head and saying; "Oh my God, I'm sorry..."

WHAT?!?! How was I supposed to know that ALL MY HAIR didn't just burn off!? I smelled the familiar smell of hair burning and I was horrified. WHAT IF ALL MY HAIR HAD JUST BURNED OFF?!?!?

So, I'm singing this beautiful Mozart aria, whilst thinking: "Will I need to get extensions? Will I need to cut it all off to make a cute short style until it all grows out? Are all these people looking at me and feeling bad because I'm now bald?!?!"

5 minutes of Mozart and horrified thoughts. TORTURE.

Quite luckily, nothing had really happened to my hair except a slight singe. I don't think I've ever been so relieved in my life...or so afraid of a torch. But at least I looked cute. I received many compliments on the Botanical Stroll Dress and rocked it out at the concert this year! I wonder which Anthro dress I'll work next year!?