Wait For It - In Which Miles Learns We'll See Hamilton In NYC

I was very excited to tell Miles I had bought the tickets for us to see Hamilton in New York. At 7:30 the next morning, I sat on his bed to wake him up. 

"Miles. Wake up now," I murmured exactly as I had when he was a wee laddie. As he began to stir, he suddenly sat up and told me, "I had two dreams last night that I saw Hamilton!" 

(Wow.)

"In both dreams I was with Dad, and we were sitting close to the stage. In the second one, Ari and Darius were in the show, in the ensemble. At one point they motioned to me to come on stage, so I put my top hat on the empty chair beside me. Like there would be an empty chair beside me!" he said laughing. "And I joined in with the ensemble."

"I bought tickets." I said.

He let this register for a minute and then said in a measured tone, "You bought tickets?"

"Yeah."

"We're going to New York?"

"Yeah."

Miles is not a jump up and down, scream and run through the house kind of kid. So he didn't jump up and down, scream and run through the house. His fixed brow and darting eyes told me his mind was at work...we were going to New York, we were going to see Hamilton, we were going to see (nearly) the entire original cast.

"When?" he asked.

"Right after graduation," I said. "You graduate on Tuesday, May 24th, and we'll fly that Thursday and see it on the 31st."

"Cool," he said.

Super Cool.