My Christmas 2007
Hello everyone -
The visit to the Music Center at Strathmore was very nice. The building is fairly new, so is in good condition. The performing arts hall (if that's what you want to call it) was very pretty. It is very contemporary looking. It and the chairs are made out of light wood (I think Dad said maple) and the uppholstery is a deep plum. The performance of Handel's Messiah was phenomenal. There was a 200 person choir and a not-too-big orchestra. The only negative thing I have to say about it is that this particular orchestra had the longest tuning in the history of tunings. The concert mistress had everyone tune every string, and each string took a really long time. Everyone that had been to a professional orchestra performance before was making comments! Mom said she was glad that there were no 12-string instruments involved, because that would have taken forever!
Sunday morning I went to church (sang), and in the afternoon cleaned up for our guests on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve we finished cleaning up and then in the late afternoon my grandparents (on my mom's side) and my uncle (mom's bro) came for dinner. We had our usual easy bbq from Famous Dave's.
Christmas morning I went to church (served). Father Langan was the celebrant. The Christmas Day 10:30 AM mass seems to be his annual appearance. After church Mom and I came home and had lunch. A little while after that we went to my grandparent's house for Christmas presents and dinner. We called my other grandparents and my dad's aunt and uncle on our way down.
This year I got mostly clothes and jewelry. I got a cute cat x-mas sweater/shirt (I'm not quite sure what it's called), a Mason sweatshirt, long-sleeve t-shirt & short sleeve t-shirt, a vest and shirt set, a jean jacket, a sweater/corduroy jeans set, some earrings, a gold B pendant/chain, a gold amethyst pendant, and a pink gold amethyst pendant that is in the shape of a cat. Oh, and I also got a purse (I saw it and liked it so Mom bought it for me as a Christmas present). I'll try to put pictures of the gifts up later today.
Tomorrow I will be going to northern NJ to visit my aunt, uncle, and cousin. We have plans to go to NYC on Friday. We will be coming back Saturday so that we can be home for church on Sunday.
That's it for now.
The visit to the Music Center at Strathmore was very nice. The building is fairly new, so is in good condition. The performing arts hall (if that's what you want to call it) was very pretty. It is very contemporary looking. It and the chairs are made out of light wood (I think Dad said maple) and the uppholstery is a deep plum. The performance of Handel's Messiah was phenomenal. There was a 200 person choir and a not-too-big orchestra. The only negative thing I have to say about it is that this particular orchestra had the longest tuning in the history of tunings. The concert mistress had everyone tune every string, and each string took a really long time. Everyone that had been to a professional orchestra performance before was making comments! Mom said she was glad that there were no 12-string instruments involved, because that would have taken forever!
Sunday morning I went to church (sang), and in the afternoon cleaned up for our guests on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve we finished cleaning up and then in the late afternoon my grandparents (on my mom's side) and my uncle (mom's bro) came for dinner. We had our usual easy bbq from Famous Dave's.
Christmas morning I went to church (served). Father Langan was the celebrant. The Christmas Day 10:30 AM mass seems to be his annual appearance. After church Mom and I came home and had lunch. A little while after that we went to my grandparent's house for Christmas presents and dinner. We called my other grandparents and my dad's aunt and uncle on our way down.
This year I got mostly clothes and jewelry. I got a cute cat x-mas sweater/shirt (I'm not quite sure what it's called), a Mason sweatshirt, long-sleeve t-shirt & short sleeve t-shirt, a vest and shirt set, a jean jacket, a sweater/corduroy jeans set, some earrings, a gold B pendant/chain, a gold amethyst pendant, and a pink gold amethyst pendant that is in the shape of a cat. Oh, and I also got a purse (I saw it and liked it so Mom bought it for me as a Christmas present). I'll try to put pictures of the gifts up later today.
Tomorrow I will be going to northern NJ to visit my aunt, uncle, and cousin. We have plans to go to NYC on Friday. We will be coming back Saturday so that we can be home for church on Sunday.
That's it for now.
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