Busy Summer

We had the pleasure of meeting my older son's girlfriend this past week.  She lives in New Jersey, but she came to stay with us for a week.  She attends college in Ohio (not the same college my son went to), but they actually met at a church conference in Indiana. She has been overseas the last several months in Denmark in a student exchange program.  I had "met" her over Skype much earlier when she was talking to my son, but this was the first time to actually meet her face to face.

She is as sweet and kind as she is pretty, and I already love her, so the week went very well.  


I even got to share a girls' day out with her and my other son's girlfriend.  The three of us went to see a "girly" movie while the men in the family went to see the latest Transformers offering.  The girls voted to see the movie Midnight in Paris, which is a romantic comedy, time travel, kind of  artsy Woody Allen movie starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams.  This is the trailer from the movie.  I actually thought the movie was better than what the trailer portrays, but I guess they can only do so much in a two minute promotional spot.

Also this week, we went to another concert by our city orchestra (an all-volunteer orchestra who performs for free for the community made up of people from high school age to senior citizens).  My younger son plays the upright bass with this group.  Usually he is one of either two or three people who are playing the bass, but for this particular concert, he was the only one.  Their latest concert was held in the beautiful, air-conditioned sanctuary of our church.  There was a good-sized crowd on hand, and they were very appreciative of the music.


Here are a couple of short videos I made from the concert.  The theme for this concert was music from movies and musicals so it was a fun one for everyone to attend.  This first video is of the song "Oklahoma."  I went up closer to the front of the church and stood at the side to make this video.  If you squint and look really close, you can see my son playing the upright bass standing under and a little to the left of the cross. HA!  You'll have to forgive me.  I'm a Mom, saving the memories, you know.  My son's girlfriend is in both of these videos as well.  She is playing the violin to the left of the director,  but you only catch a glimpse of her every once in a while, and she is pretty fuzzy.

This second clip I made from where we were sitting way back in the pews.  My son is pretty difficult to see in this one, but they played well.  This is the theme from "Mission Impossible."

My son's passion for music is keeping him busy this summer.  In addition to the city orchestra, he is also playing in the pit orchestra for the local community theater's summer musical production of the Wizard of Oz which is showing at the end of this month.  He is also keeping busy with the string quintet that he is in.  They have been playing for wedding receptions and birthday parties and other such events.  In fact, today they are scheduled to play at another wedding locally.


While he will be providing the music at that wedding today, my husband and I will be attending another wedding elsewhere in a town about an hour from here.  One of my husband's co-workers is getting married.  This summer is flying by so fast.  I'd like to slow it down and keep it around longer.