Weekend/Birthday Party update
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collwenOn Thursday not only did I get my movie and cake pan, but the Living Greyhawk Gazetter came in. My Rebekahs meeting was canceled due to a lack of people showing up.
Friday night, I went up to Bearsville (next to Woodstock) for the State Assembly President's visit. It went rather well. They have their own Lodge hall (original to the Rebekah's/Odd Fellows). Dinner was good (the ladies of that lodge make good lasagna).
Saturday &; Birthday Party
Saturday Morning![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marnen; and I first went up to Ghent to a school Renn Faire, and I ended up playing flute for the dancing with Marnen (it was for kids that thursdayschild had taught). It was only through some confusions that I ended up playing... but it gave me my first paid musical gig!
Right after we were done playing, we checked out the book sale they were having and ended up with a bag of music and cookbooks (and a couple of random novels for my aunt and a Star Trek TNG one for giggles).
Then came our first appointment with Brid for our wedding. It definitely gave us things to think about, both together and for ourselves.
Then we went up to Lansingburg where Aunt Glady is currently in a convalescent home. She was doing well, up until we got there. I gave her the books, and Marnen played the violin. She loves to hear him play. Mom and Ed were there (I gave Ed back some manga he had lent me).
Then we stopped off at the store to pick up stuff for the multi-bday party. I picked up some shrimp (because I had hankering for it), some snacky stuff (like chips, salsa, & olives), and a couple of bags of purple potatoes. The party was cool. There were lots of people (including my brother). The food was good. There was lamb, and hummus, and banana bread, and potatoes. I could have made at least 2 more bags of pan roasted potatoes and still not gotten any out of the kitchen. I promisedstonetimber that I'd bring the makings for them to Roses, where I'm camping with Clan Campbell. Not sure I'll bring all purple potatoes, but there will be pan roasted potatoes. Much later (and after trying that YUMMY pomegranate cordial) Marnen and I went to crash at the Halfway House. The party continued for several hours.
Sunday & Theater
First thing Sunday, we stopped back in Albany to pick up Robin (she needed a ride) and we went to NYC. We made good time, so we stopped in Yonkers at the Indian restaurant where Marnen took me for my birthday, and ate at the Sunday/Mother's Day brunch buffet. The food is still good.
We then finished the trek to NYC, got stuck in traffic, then finally parked. Robin headed to the subway while Marnen and I headed over to the theater that we were going to see Brundibar at. We got there early enough to grab tickets, take a quick jaunt up for my first ever look at Times Square (and not from a tv screen). Then we headed back for the show. I'm not sure if this could be considered "Broadway Theater" but it was a show in the theater district with a playwright that is pretty big.
Brundibar is a Czech children's opera written in the 1930s by Haans Krasa and Adolf Hoffmeister. The first performances were in a orphanage in Prague, then in the way-point-to-death of Theresienstadt. In fact, the Nazi's commanded a performance of it in 1944 for a Red Cross visit to show how nice the village was. Most of the participants in the Theresienstadt production, including the composer Krása, were later exterminated in Auschwitz. Through a set of basically miracles, the story and the opera made it out of Theresienstadt and survived.
In 2003, Maurice Sendak (the guy who wrote Where the Wild Things AreAngels in America fame). For this NYC production, Kushner wrote a little curtain raiser called But the Giraffe/i>giving some of the history of the opera (in this case the smuggling of the opera out of Prague).
I liked it.
We met Marnen's Dad (Bernie), his girlfirend (Sally), her son (James), his girlfriend (Audrey), and a couple of mutual friends of Sally and Bernie's afterwards and ended up at this restaurant on 9th Ave called Hell's Kitchen. The food was good, the decor was interesting.
For example:
Chandelier at Hell's Kitchen (sorry, I still cannot sort out how to post the image from the LJ Scrapbook directly into a post unless I use their function, which adds a table and other stuff).
Bernie and Sally gave me a gift card for Barnes & Nobel-- guess who's getting LFN Season 2?
Friday night, I went up to Bearsville (next to Woodstock) for the State Assembly President's visit. It went rather well. They have their own Lodge hall (original to the Rebekah's/Odd Fellows). Dinner was good (the ladies of that lodge make good lasagna).
Saturday &; Birthday Party
Saturday Morning
marnen; and I first went up to Ghent to a school Renn Faire, and I ended up playing flute for the dancing with Marnen (it was for kids that thursdayschild had taught). It was only through some confusions that I ended up playing... but it gave me my first paid musical gig!Right after we were done playing, we checked out the book sale they were having and ended up with a bag of music and cookbooks (and a couple of random novels for my aunt and a Star Trek TNG one for giggles).
Then came our first appointment with Brid for our wedding. It definitely gave us things to think about, both together and for ourselves.
Then we went up to Lansingburg where Aunt Glady is currently in a convalescent home. She was doing well, up until we got there. I gave her the books, and Marnen played the violin. She loves to hear him play. Mom and Ed were there (I gave Ed back some manga he had lent me).
Then we stopped off at the store to pick up stuff for the multi-bday party. I picked up some shrimp (because I had hankering for it), some snacky stuff (like chips, salsa, & olives), and a couple of bags of purple potatoes. The party was cool. There were lots of people (including my brother). The food was good. There was lamb, and hummus, and banana bread, and potatoes. I could have made at least 2 more bags of pan roasted potatoes and still not gotten any out of the kitchen. I promised
stonetimber that I'd bring the makings for them to Roses, where I'm camping with Clan Campbell. Not sure I'll bring all purple potatoes, but there will be pan roasted potatoes. Much later (and after trying that YUMMY pomegranate cordial) Marnen and I went to crash at the Halfway House. The party continued for several hours.Sunday & Theater
First thing Sunday, we stopped back in Albany to pick up Robin (she needed a ride) and we went to NYC. We made good time, so we stopped in Yonkers at the Indian restaurant where Marnen took me for my birthday, and ate at the Sunday/Mother's Day brunch buffet. The food is still good.
We then finished the trek to NYC, got stuck in traffic, then finally parked. Robin headed to the subway while Marnen and I headed over to the theater that we were going to see Brundibar at. We got there early enough to grab tickets, take a quick jaunt up for my first ever look at Times Square (and not from a tv screen). Then we headed back for the show. I'm not sure if this could be considered "Broadway Theater" but it was a show in the theater district with a playwright that is pretty big.
Brundibar is a Czech children's opera written in the 1930s by Haans Krasa and Adolf Hoffmeister. The first performances were in a orphanage in Prague, then in the way-point-to-death of Theresienstadt. In fact, the Nazi's commanded a performance of it in 1944 for a Red Cross visit to show how nice the village was. Most of the participants in the Theresienstadt production, including the composer Krása, were later exterminated in Auschwitz. Through a set of basically miracles, the story and the opera made it out of Theresienstadt and survived.
In 2003, Maurice Sendak (the guy who wrote Where the Wild Things AreAngels in America fame). For this NYC production, Kushner wrote a little curtain raiser called But the Giraffe/i>giving some of the history of the opera (in this case the smuggling of the opera out of Prague).
I liked it.
We met Marnen's Dad (Bernie), his girlfirend (Sally), her son (James), his girlfriend (Audrey), and a couple of mutual friends of Sally and Bernie's afterwards and ended up at this restaurant on 9th Ave called Hell's Kitchen. The food was good, the decor was interesting.
For example:
Chandelier at Hell's Kitchen (sorry, I still cannot sort out how to post the image from the LJ Scrapbook directly into a post unless I use their function, which adds a table and other stuff).
Bernie and Sally gave me a gift card for Barnes & Nobel-- guess who's getting LFN Season 2?
