So much to blog about, so little time...

Last evening and today have been unusually busy.  I'll just list some highlights here and post a few pics for now. Hopefully tomorrow will offer up more time for details (but I kind of doubt it will).

If I recall, yesterday was occupied with practicing, a trip to the ARC, and then last night ... gee, seems like we did something but maybe not.  I know we did walk down to get ice cream and on the trip the kids played on some kind of spinning apparatus.  Getting a photo worth posting was a challenge.

Today Maya started her day as usual with a good practice session then headed to the music campus for a rehearsal with Tamara Goldstein.  While that was happening Jamuna, Abe and I went to the airport to meet Mrs. White.  She is a great friend and the kids' first and primary strings teacher in Rapid City.  She'll be visiting and helping with practicing all week and then return for another week later in early August.

We then went up to the music school and all of us listened carefully to a very interesting presentation about the art and science of musical strings.  Maybe I will elaborate another time.  Of note, attendee musicians received a free set of strings.  I left my outer shirt on a chair.  Hopefully it will be there tomorrow.



After the strings lecture Dr. Goza and Mrs. White went with Maya to her studio class while the rest of us went back to the airport to get Mrs. White's wayward luggage.  I was not feeling well at all - something I ate (?) - but we managed to buzz back into town to get some items at the PO for Jamuna.  We then headed back toward the music campus but were distracted by a fruit stand selling fresh, local produce.  We purchased some peaches, cherries, apricots and sweet corn.  Made it to the music campus just as the studio class had ended.

Came back to the condo but a weekly cleaning service was in the place so we made ourselves scarce and took a walk into town to introduce Mrs. W. to some of the attractions.  We returned just in time to collect ourselves and walk toward the music tent where Mrs. W. and the girls went to hear Libby Fayette, the winner of this year's violin competition, play with an orchestra.  On the way we stopped at a "Physics in the Park" event where the kids fiddled with geometric shapes and bubbles.  The girls left for the concert but Abe and I hung around for a demonstration (lame) and then headed to Paepcke Auditorium to listen to a very interesting lecture about dark matter.  Whew.  We all ended up back at the condo.  I'm ready to call it a night.