Assembly Hall Performance

Saturday, November 24

Time for our annual city Christmas choral program, Sounds of the Season, and I am playing the flute/piccolo with them again this year!  It has been awesome!  I really missed playing with this group last year.  And this year M&M joined our group with the bassoon.  They had a couple of possibilities for bassoon players and they both fell through so I volunteered M&M.  The music was a bit of a challenge for her but she has been enjoying it.  Her band music is a little too easy for her this year and she is getting a little frustrated with the class this year in school.

We had our first concert the weekend right after Thanksgiving day at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square.  At first we didn't think that M&M would be playing with us for that performance because the space is really limited for the orchestra, but at our Saturday morning rehearsal the director said that she wanted M&M to come too.  (And if there was not room for her she would just sit in the audience and watch.)

M&M and I drove down to Temple Square for our performance and she was able to play with us.  About halfway through the performance I spotted DH in the audience with all the rest of our kids.  I was quite surprised that he had decided to make the trip downtown to see us - and to bring all of the kids with him.  We had talked about him doing that a little bit but he hadn't sounded too interested in making the trip.  Afterwards we met them outside of the building and decided to walk over to the new City Creek Center to the food court to get some dinner.  Unfortunately a lot of other people apparently had the same idea for that evening because it was jam packed!  We got some food for the kids but we had an incredibly hard time finding a place to sit down and eat.  We finally found a counter with some stools at it for the kids to sit at.  After that we tried walking through Temple Square to see the Christmas lights, but it was so crowded it was ridiculous...  We ended up not spending much time there and then went back to our cars and headed home.