Some cute pictures Amanda sent this weekend. They were in cold and snowy Levenworth on Saturday, and went to the Nutcracker Museum which has the largest collection of antique nutcrackers in the world. What fun.
Speaking of cold and snow. It started falling In Seattle after we got home from the Symphony yesterday. Looks like an inch or so on the ground this morning, with more on the way. It's going to be extremely cold in the Northwest all week, with no real warm up until the rain finally returns on Christmas.
We just had a big dose of holiday entertainment. On Saturday, a 3-hour play at the Seattle Rep called "Mr. Dickens and His Carol," which sounded like light entertainment when I bought the tickets. One scathing review described it as "a seemingly biographical play that never happened...and shouldn't have." Ha. You had to feel for those fine actors slogging though that material.
And then "Handel's Messiah" on Sunday, another 3 hours of sitting. The "Messiah" is the most famous English oratorio, which is a large scale work for orchestra and voices. It's almost like an opera, but without the "distraction" of costumes and sets.
Like listening to Wagner, you need a certain mindset to appreciate (endure?) Handel and the endless lyric repetition. The hall was full, and it was a different audience than our usual Sunday afternoon crowd. People loved it. Everyone jumped out of their seats and stood reverently for the Hallelujah chorus, like church. Quite a different experience.
Well, time to get off my you-know-what and think about some exercise.
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