School is into week two. All is well thus far. Lydia has guilted me into signing forms to volunteer. Ugh, I hope they don't call!
Brooklyn, L, Angelina:
Friday night I took Lydia to see Brandi Carlile play at our beautiful Arlene Schnitzer Auditorium. We had such a great time. Lydia really enjoyed it and I hope we will have a chance soon to do something similar. Here is a link to a little Brandi, you may recognize the first song, it was on Grey's Anatomy as well as some commercials. (Do you all know to double click on links like this one and paste into a new tab?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pQLtHTPaI&list=RDo8pQLtHTPaI#t=0
Ed has a cousin from L.A. who moved from Portland to Georgia when we were out here on our cross country trip. He is a professor of music( I think that's his title, I could be wrong). Anyway, he took a job in Atlanta and has since moved just outside Allentown. His wife Jenny was here this summer visiting and invited us to her step father's birthday party, where she introduced us to her friend's Seairme and David. They live here across the river with Tilly and Benny, their kids. Tilly is the same age as Lydia, about a month apart, and they get along great! and we really like all of them.
David and Seairme (say ah me) play in the L.A. symphony, as well as others and background music for movies and commercials. David texted Ed the other day to offer us tickets to a show he is playing with Bela Fleck and the symphony(Bela Fleck is a big name banjo player).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-zfiMLiizc&index=3&list=PLF3CB3C35904578AA
I can't imagine what he will do with a symphony behind him!
After the ticket offering we were invited to where they are pasturing their horses right now.
Wild mustangs that the government rounded up and sold.
They are so beautiful and sweet! We got a bit of education about them, Lydia got to help do a little training, then we hiked some of the property, ate some apples off the trees and went for lunch.
Lydia ended up going home with them to play with Tilly, so Ed and I got to ramble on our own.
We ended up at their house for dinner, and had gluten free pizza from a pizza place, and it was the best pizza ever!
Sunday we drove out to the river where Lydia and Ayla got to play with freighters along the banks.
Tonight Lydia went to her friends house and Ed and I went back to the Schnitz for the 30th anniversary of the Literary arts program here.
Colin Meloy of "The Decemberists" played a couple songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUCeHbg4afA
Calvin Triller who has written for The New Yorker as well as The Nation, spoke.
A local poet and a highschool senior both spoke and THEN Elizabeth Gilbert!!!
It was a good night. We had some yummy dinner out, then a beer in the park before the show.
Somewhere in conversation Saturday, David said that he was going to play a show Tuesday for some guy...um... Trey? We just laughed because it's the guy from the band Phish, who is VERY well known. Ed has seen his band many many times. We loved that he had no idea who he was.
David texted today and offered to put two tickets at will call, so tomorrow night, we are back at the Schnitz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlBKL69858
Enough excitement for today!
Friday night I took Lydia to see Brandi Carlile play at our beautiful Arlene Schnitzer Auditorium. We had such a great time. Lydia really enjoyed it and I hope we will have a chance soon to do something similar. Here is a link to a little Brandi, you may recognize the first song, it was on Grey's Anatomy as well as some commercials. (Do you all know to double click on links like this one and paste into a new tab?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pQLtHTPaI&list=RDo8pQLtHTPaI#t=0
Ed has a cousin from L.A. who moved from Portland to Georgia when we were out here on our cross country trip. He is a professor of music( I think that's his title, I could be wrong). Anyway, he took a job in Atlanta and has since moved just outside Allentown. His wife Jenny was here this summer visiting and invited us to her step father's birthday party, where she introduced us to her friend's Seairme and David. They live here across the river with Tilly and Benny, their kids. Tilly is the same age as Lydia, about a month apart, and they get along great! and we really like all of them.
David and Seairme (say ah me) play in the L.A. symphony, as well as others and background music for movies and commercials. David texted Ed the other day to offer us tickets to a show he is playing with Bela Fleck and the symphony(Bela Fleck is a big name banjo player).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-zfiMLiizc&index=3&list=PLF3CB3C35904578AA
I can't imagine what he will do with a symphony behind him!
After the ticket offering we were invited to where they are pasturing their horses right now.
Wild mustangs that the government rounded up and sold.
They are so beautiful and sweet! We got a bit of education about them, Lydia got to help do a little training, then we hiked some of the property, ate some apples off the trees and went for lunch.
Lydia ended up going home with them to play with Tilly, so Ed and I got to ramble on our own.
We ended up at their house for dinner, and had gluten free pizza from a pizza place, and it was the best pizza ever!
Sunday we drove out to the river where Lydia and Ayla got to play with freighters along the banks.
Tonight Lydia went to her friends house and Ed and I went back to the Schnitz for the 30th anniversary of the Literary arts program here.
Colin Meloy of "The Decemberists" played a couple songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUCeHbg4afA
Calvin Triller who has written for The New Yorker as well as The Nation, spoke.
A local poet and a highschool senior both spoke and THEN Elizabeth Gilbert!!!
It was a good night. We had some yummy dinner out, then a beer in the park before the show.
Somewhere in conversation Saturday, David said that he was going to play a show Tuesday for some guy...um... Trey? We just laughed because it's the guy from the band Phish, who is VERY well known. Ed has seen his band many many times. We loved that he had no idea who he was.
David texted today and offered to put two tickets at will call, so tomorrow night, we are back at the Schnitz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlBKL69858
Enough excitement for today!
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