I open this post with a picture of me and my other human housemate, Chica. A picture of her son Zeek and the most-beloved cat Sammy can be found in part II .
Here is a picture from Thanksgiving. I spent it with Tot, her family in nearby Meridian, Idaho, and the inimitable Chris. Tot her mom and I had just finished the most annoying Scrabble game ever. We each had trouble getting good letters and it just never got exciting. But we persevered, and took the picture to prove our success at finishing! Oops, I blinked. Oh well.
Finally, a follow up to my last
post. (I guess I finally figured out how to make the link thing work. Can you tell?!?) Basically, a fellow grad student of violin, J, needed another violinist and a violist for a quartet gig at a wedding in McCall, a ski resort town about 90 miles north of Boise. Since it's a pretty good distance, J decided to make a vacation out of the trip, so she rented a hotel room for the night before the wedding and asked if myself and the violist, K, would like to join her. She didn't exactly have to twist my arm. Sunday morning before the wedding, we took a drive up into the mountains near Cascade to visit a primitive hot spring pool. After soaking for about an hour we drove to McCall, met up with the cellist, and played happy wedding music at the stunning White Tail Lodge. The wedding took place in a room that overlooks the lake, and beyond that mountains, just after the sun set behind those mountains. Wow. To finish off the fun, after we finished playing we took the tip a member of the wedding party gave us and used it to eat at the Mexican restaurant Chapala. Fast, cheap, good. And then J paid us $100 each and thanked us.
"No, no, thank you!"
3 comments:
I like McCall. I've driven through there several times since it's on the way to Boise from Missoula. Shannon and I went camping near there once and met the Hanson's. In the winter, they get a lot of snow and there are many people who build really cool sculptures in their yards. It's also the only place I've been able to buy a 32 oz. breve.
Good to hear from you.
That picture of the two of you in the hot springs gives me the shivers, B-r-r-r-r!!!!!!
well, sorry to make you shiver Tryna. the water kept us quite warm. in fact, at first it was too hot and we had to cool it off with water from the stream next to it. they say it's espcially nice to visit one of these hot springs after a long hike and/or at night, when the sky is full of stars. hmmm.. yeah. just thinking about that makes me smile.
and yes, Tot, this is the better of the two pictures from Thanksgiving! so... sorry to your mom. :)
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