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It was one year ago today that I wrote my first blog. It is amazing that time has gone by so fast! I was thinking of all the things that have happened during this past year. The most amazing was becoming a grandma. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think how great that job is! Camper makes it easy. He is a great baby to hang around. I think to celebrate I will go and read my old posts. A trip down memory lane…always a good time.
To start off with- if you want a second version (because I may forget all the exciting things that took place) you can check out Erin’s blog. She was there, she knows.
Lets see where to begin- about a month ago (A MONTH AGO) there was a write up in the paper about Tanglewood- For those out of towners, Tanglewood is the “summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra”. It was announced that on this very night there would be free tickets for Berkshires residents and that they would be having a “petting zoo” where children could go and look at and touch different musical instruments. I showed this to my daughter who thought that her little boy would enjoy something like that. So we marked the calendar, and YESTERDAY drove the distance to Tanglewood to pick up the free tickets. While there I asked about the “petting zoo” and the person handing out the tickets said “oh yes, that will be in the visitors center.”
So cut to tonight- we end up with two extra tickets because son-in-law had to go back to school tonight and my hubbie would rather fish. So we invited friends to come with us to use the other two tickets. Off we went… looking forward to some fantastic shots of the grandbaby playing with musical instruments. We got there handed out tickets to the ticket taker and asked “where is the petting zoo?” “At the visitors center just that way” was the reply. We walked to the VC went in and all the tours guides were sitting looking like tour guides with nothing to do. My daughter asked about the petting zoo and we were told- ” oh, that isn’t today! That was in the paper by mistake one time-blah blah blah…. I didn’t listen to much after that. I just couldn’t believe this. We drove all the way there for not a thing. One of my favorite lines of the adventure was from Erin. “So, what you are telling me is that Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has no musical instruments for my son to look at!” I even would have settled for a comb and piece of wax paper by this time.
Then one of the tour guides offered to take us on a tour- I was sure that a ten month old would love that. But off we went. He yapped on about why it is called Tanglewood, and then told us that he lied about that and didn’t know why. There was a pre-show going on in another building so he hiked over there with us. I am sure Erin will tell this part better so go to Kitegirl on my blog roll and you can get the whole thing.
Lets just say- it was bad. Wet grass- really wet grass- a snotty lady yelling at the tour guide to sit down and bugs. Yah, good times.
Now I know WHY people bring wine to Tanglewood. We don’t drink but the thought crossed my mind.
Finding the car again took longer than we thought- then I got just a mile or so away from my house and just about got a speeding ticket. It was only my stealth like moves that saved me- and advice from a passenger in the car to pull in to the gas station and lose the cop. Phew… I thought that only worked in movies.
EVERY time I have gone to Tanglewood it sucked. I don’t believe I will attend another unorganized event again.
The worst part, I get home and the only junk food I can find is a container of Select Ones California prunes. There is just nothing yummy about that!
so the white house in the background is mine… the tree missed it- but what was really weird is this storm came up really fast. It starting to rain and hail and I was busy going around shutting open windows. Then it was over. It wasn’t until later… hours later that I went out to go to the store and found the tree laying in the yard. We never heard a thing. It went through other trees and took some of their branches off so I think the helped to quiet the fall- also the heavy rain might have made it hard to hear it. The good news is it didn’t hit the house or anything in our yard- the better news is that it is the neighbors tree so they will have the joy of cleaning up- and nothing of theirs was damaged. All good stuff. I always worried about that tree anyway so I am glad to have one less thing I think might fall on my house.