STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Last night my husband and I were able to go out by ourselves while my brother and sister-in-law watched our kids.  We ended up going to this place called Shadowbox Cabaret which is a like a comedy club with live music and skits.  We ended up sitting in the back of the place and of course it was really loud.  All of the sudden, above the sound of the music we hear this uproar outside of the club.  The club is located in a huge complex that also houses movie theatres and restaurants.  It was strange to hear such an uproar especially because it was so loud in the cabaret already.  Then I see some of the cabaret workers start running for the door in a panic.  They went and locked the doors to the place and looked extremely scared.  I finally got up and asked one of the girls what was going on.  She said there had been a shooting and apparently there was a riot going on outside the doors!  She said the cops were there but to stay put.  I went into the bathroom and called 911.  They said they had already been called and I asked what exactly we should do.  They said just to stay put because the cops were actively going through the building looking for the gunman!  I was absolutely shaking and I went back and told my husband and the people at our table.  It was so frightening because I has no idea if some gunman would storm the place and take us all hostage or what.  Through all of this the show kept going on (which was probably a good thing).  I went back into the bathroom and called my mom on my cell and asked her if she had heard anything on the news (she had not)-I told her to call me if she heard anything.  Finally, the show ends and the doors open up (most of the people in the crowd had no idea all of this was going on).  We went back into the lobby and there were police officers everywhere!  You could cut the tension in the air with a knife!  There were all kinds of gangs and scary-looking people loitering around and we decided to get the h*ll out there!  We ended up finding out there was huge fight between some youths (gangs?) and there were conflicting reports about whether there were shots fired or not. 

This all happened in a very nice, new complex right outside of Cincinnati in Newport, Kentucky.  It was so scary!  I won't be going back there again anytime soon after all of this.

On top of that, on our way home we got into a huge storm and they spotted tornadoes nearby!  It was so ironic that my husband and I just wanted a night out to get away from the normal chaos of dealing with the kids and we end having a much more chaotic night!!!