GRF Excursion Recap

by Mayoka Bassell

Recreation Department

When I saw the International City Theater’s ad for “Under the Skin” by Michael Hollinger, I immediately knew it was a comedy I wanted our residents to enjoy. And so we did on April 30 as Gold Coast Bus 6042 took us along Ocean Boulevard with residents beaming in their excitement. The excursion was smooth from start to finish, and “Under the Skin” was impressively clever. The play offered a mix of laughter, confusion, and tears—both of joy and frustra-tion— as Reina neurotically decided whether her father Lou deserved her kidney or not.

Lou seemed like the guy who always was who he was no matter what it cost others. So, we all felt for Reina as we watched her inner girl lose it while she carried all the pain from her past. And understandably so. At the end of the play, her love for her father allowed her to donate a kidney as a match, although Lou, as it turned out, was not her biological father!

I want to encourage our residents to not shy away from the new experiences GRF is hosting for our community.

Recreation still has tickets to the Angels game on June 9 and will soon be selling excursion tickets to the Getty Villa on July 7, as well as Pageant of the Masters on August 30.

For more information about upcoming excursions, contact Mayoka at 562-431-6586 ext. 476 or email mayokab@lwsb. com.