My birthday weekend is wrapping up. Its been a good one, too. Friday was a fun evening spent with the family, though Kelly and I were too wiped to watch a movie or do much else after the kids went to bed. Thus it was pretty quiet.
Saturday morning was one spent dozing a bit in bed, though sleeping late has come to mean 7:30 now that we’re parents. A breakfast of blueberry pancakes and bacon soon followed, cooked up by Chef Kelly and her Noisy Chef assistant, Hallie.
After a good meal, we plotted the day’s activities. Rain was on the way, so my first choice of a family hike was out of the question. Instead, we packed up the kids and headed for the N.C. Museum of Natural Science. We spent the whole morning there chasing after gleeful kids, not minding the rain outside.
After getting home for lunch, the kids took their naps and so did the adults. I wound up sleeping 90 minutes, far beyond my usual nap, though I felt quite refreshed afterward. We were running out of time to get ready for our evening concert, so I spent the next hour finding a suit that still fits.
My parents (and Scott, who would be joining us) arrived soon after we got the kids up from their naps. After giving my parents the “plan of the day,” we said goodnight to the kids and headed out the door. We ate and got drinks at the Rockford before dashing to Memorial Auditorium for the symphony.
The symphony featured Edgar Meyer, a celebrated bassist. In my rush to get tickets, it didn’t even register who he was until five minutes into his performance. Meyer is the talented bassist who plays with Yo Yo Ma and Mark O’Connor on two CDs I love, Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey. To see him playing five rows in front of us was just incredible. I walked around the entire evening with a stupid grin on my face!
After a good night’s sleep, we woke again around 7 and were once again faced with a rainy day. It was breakfast and then a trip to the N.C. Art Museum, where we marched around outside before warming up in the children’s play area of the museum.
After lunch, I met Jeff over at my parents’ house to help move furniture. Then it was back home for the kids’ naptimes, after which I hit the road for some volunteer work in Durham for the Rhine. Then it was playtime with the kids, dinner, bath time for the kids, and finally bedtime for the kids. Whew!
Now I need to finish packing for my trip to Seattle tomorrow. Fortunately, I’ve got a good biography on Benjamin Franklin to read on the long plane flights there and back.
See y’all on the flipside.