Friday, October 17, 2008
Date Night
Last night, Rich and I got to go on a date. So did Yasmina. The other children stayed home with a babysitter.
Our friends at the Wurlitzer Manor hosted another silent film night. Of course, since they have the Wurlitzer, they hired an organist to play the music, Donna Parker, who was amazing. She played just the right music for each scene, flawlessly, and gave a little talk about the organ and the history of organ playing for film. If you have a chance to see the original 1920 Mark of Zorro, do it. The movie was wonderful, people even got into the booing and hissing and cheering and clapping in all the right spots. This was a great crowd. It was also nice to see priests portrayed as the good guys.
Rich worked with a pilots' and tenants' association to put this together, like the one we had a few years ago, and it was so much fun, there was pizza, a popcorn popper, salad, hors-d'oevres, sodas, lots of great people. We were able to catch up with some friends we hadn't talked to in a while and with people who hadn't had a chance to see Yasmina yet. She was perfect. Everyone around us commented that until I stood up with her during intermission, they didn't even know she was there.
After everyone left, Rich and I stayed to talk with Barbara and Raymond, and a few other friends, had some gorgeous wine, ate beautiful chocolates and just got silly telling funny stories and laughing. We needed this. Chances are that we aren't going to get another real date night until December the way our schedules and having a brand new baby are right now, so this little mini date was a treat.
We were talking the other day about how we miss going dancing together. We were going once or twice a month, and we'd like to start going once a month at least, again, but we don't think that's really feasible until January. We're just trying to plan our thoughts toward that. I realized the other day that I actually have forgotten how to do Argentine tango. And that is sad. I can do the American version just fine, but Argentine has fallen out of my head, and apparently my feet, too.
Our friends at the Wurlitzer Manor hosted another silent film night. Of course, since they have the Wurlitzer, they hired an organist to play the music, Donna Parker, who was amazing. She played just the right music for each scene, flawlessly, and gave a little talk about the organ and the history of organ playing for film. If you have a chance to see the original 1920 Mark of Zorro, do it. The movie was wonderful, people even got into the booing and hissing and cheering and clapping in all the right spots. This was a great crowd. It was also nice to see priests portrayed as the good guys.
Rich worked with a pilots' and tenants' association to put this together, like the one we had a few years ago, and it was so much fun, there was pizza, a popcorn popper, salad, hors-d'oevres, sodas, lots of great people. We were able to catch up with some friends we hadn't talked to in a while and with people who hadn't had a chance to see Yasmina yet. She was perfect. Everyone around us commented that until I stood up with her during intermission, they didn't even know she was there.
After everyone left, Rich and I stayed to talk with Barbara and Raymond, and a few other friends, had some gorgeous wine, ate beautiful chocolates and just got silly telling funny stories and laughing. We needed this. Chances are that we aren't going to get another real date night until December the way our schedules and having a brand new baby are right now, so this little mini date was a treat.
We were talking the other day about how we miss going dancing together. We were going once or twice a month, and we'd like to start going once a month at least, again, but we don't think that's really feasible until January. We're just trying to plan our thoughts toward that. I realized the other day that I actually have forgotten how to do Argentine tango. And that is sad. I can do the American version just fine, but Argentine has fallen out of my head, and apparently my feet, too.
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