Swan Boats on the Boston Common

I decided to blip early today. Last night I was pretty darn tired by the time we got back from the evening concert, and since we have another evening concert tonight, I decided to do one now while Arvin is taking a nap.

Our first concert tonight is at 5 pm. We could have gone to one of the Fringe concerts this afternoon. In fact one of the players invited us to come. But we are both in need of some down time before getting back into the fray.

We woke somewhat early and went down for breakfast in plenty of time to load up on eggs, bacon, French toast, coffee, and fruit and yogurt. Nice. All part of the expense of our dorm room which is very spartan but quite usable. :)

After breakfast we took a walk looking for a couple of things we needed and then walking in the Boston Commons park. What a lovely place. We meandered along the small lake and watched as the Swan Boats got into gear for the first customers of the day. A huge flock of kindergartners arrived and all piled into boats. They were very excited. We kept walking. There were reflecting ponds due to yesterday's rain. Also there is a very old (by US standards) graveyard in the park and we checked out the ancient gravestones there too.

Now we are resting. We have two more concerts tonight including an evening one of Dame Emma Kirkby with Paul O'Dette performing lute songs by Henry Purcell. We are really looking forward to that. Paul O'Dette once had dinner at our house when he was in Bellingham giving a concert. His big lute had been damaged and a luthier from Vancouver came down to fix it. He had dinner with us too.

Post Script... we are back from the two evening concerts. The first was a group playing music normally played by an 18th century French band. It was a fairly large group playing oboes, and other double reed instruments, recorders and flutes. Also a guitar/lute player and a percussionist. The director was a kick and the music was fun to listen to.

Later we saw Dame Emma Kirkby sing and Paul O'Dette play the lute in a series of songs and lute pieces by John Dowland. That was magical. The great music continues. We are loving it. And now to bed.