Pretty Much Exhausted
But it was worth it.
Neighbors wandered in and out over the course of several hours on Tuesday night, the Summer Solstice, to visit and say farewell to our neighbors Eva, Jan, and Jacob, from the Czech Republic, who are going to return there after a five year stay here in the U.S., while Jacob served as the Cultural Attache at the Czech Embassy; and to our neighbors Amy, Tomas and Tom, who are leaving the street and moving to a neighborhood a little farther north, just over the District line in Maryland. By the time we got cleaned up and settled down it was almost midnight so we were all quite weary yesterday, but we had tickets to see "Don Quixote" performed by the Suzanne Farrell Dance Company at the Kennedy Center (http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=BFBSG) It was opening night and the three of us remaining sisters got a bit gussied up for the occasion, as S.L. wanted to do it up right on her last night in the big city. They wore black and I wore red, which I had forgotten was the color of the Opera House decor. I actually matched the curtain, even down to the gold designs on the fabric. Fortunately, my dress was not brocade.
The production was nothing short of spectacular, not only the dancing but the set designs and costumes. I thought that some of the dancing at times was actually overshadowed by the costumes and scenery, but when the point was in fact the dancing as opposed to the spectacle, which was most often, the dancing was wonderful and often superb. I also thought the last scene, the death scene, went on far too long, but those are small criticisms for an essentially awesome production. Unfortunately, S.L. had to catch a 7 a.m. plane out of National, so we didn't get too much sleep after getting home around 11 and snacking, before we had to get up to see her off. Boo hoo!
Today, S.M. and I are entirely done in. Nevertheless, as block co-captain, I've had to deal with some fall out on the block over an incident late Tuesday night of one neighbor's big dog, a German Shepherd, attacking and biting another neighbor's very small dog, and terribly frightening the young girl who is the small dog's owner. So S.M and I have kept it pretty low key, just wandering up the street to the Parthenon for lunch, a stop at the bank, and a stop at the Safeway to pick up some salmon and corn on the cob for dinner. After dinner tonight, we are going to watch a short video of S.M. when she was on television in Montana a few weeks ago talking about Amtrak, but it will be early to bed tonight! We are all POOPED!
Neighbors wandered in and out over the course of several hours on Tuesday night, the Summer Solstice, to visit and say farewell to our neighbors Eva, Jan, and Jacob, from the Czech Republic, who are going to return there after a five year stay here in the U.S., while Jacob served as the Cultural Attache at the Czech Embassy; and to our neighbors Amy, Tomas and Tom, who are leaving the street and moving to a neighborhood a little farther north, just over the District line in Maryland. By the time we got cleaned up and settled down it was almost midnight so we were all quite weary yesterday, but we had tickets to see "Don Quixote" performed by the Suzanne Farrell Dance Company at the Kennedy Center (http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=BFBSG) It was opening night and the three of us remaining sisters got a bit gussied up for the occasion, as S.L. wanted to do it up right on her last night in the big city. They wore black and I wore red, which I had forgotten was the color of the Opera House decor. I actually matched the curtain, even down to the gold designs on the fabric. Fortunately, my dress was not brocade.
The production was nothing short of spectacular, not only the dancing but the set designs and costumes. I thought that some of the dancing at times was actually overshadowed by the costumes and scenery, but when the point was in fact the dancing as opposed to the spectacle, which was most often, the dancing was wonderful and often superb. I also thought the last scene, the death scene, went on far too long, but those are small criticisms for an essentially awesome production. Unfortunately, S.L. had to catch a 7 a.m. plane out of National, so we didn't get too much sleep after getting home around 11 and snacking, before we had to get up to see her off. Boo hoo!
Today, S.M. and I are entirely done in. Nevertheless, as block co-captain, I've had to deal with some fall out on the block over an incident late Tuesday night of one neighbor's big dog, a German Shepherd, attacking and biting another neighbor's very small dog, and terribly frightening the young girl who is the small dog's owner. So S.M and I have kept it pretty low key, just wandering up the street to the Parthenon for lunch, a stop at the bank, and a stop at the Safeway to pick up some salmon and corn on the cob for dinner. After dinner tonight, we are going to watch a short video of S.M. when she was on television in Montana a few weeks ago talking about Amtrak, but it will be early to bed tonight! We are all POOPED!
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