Our first stop was the Botanical Gardens, where the "Embellishments" played a myriad of songs. They opened with:
Today, all the organizations around our fair city got together and offered free admittance to anyone who was a member of any organization. Since we have a year long pass to the McWane Science Center, we got free admission to all of them! They organized it so that each "activity" overlapped by 15 minutes, so we couldn't go to two in a row. However, it worked out fine because that gave us more time to explore the venue we were at. Just me and EJ today; my poor husband had to work. :-( Our first stop was the Botanical Gardens, where the "Embellishments" played a myriad of songs. They opened with: If you notice, the bells are not arranged from lowest to highest. After they played, I asked the director about this, and she said people don't ask that kind of question if they haven't played before. I told her about going to Nationals several times in high school, and the fact that we have handbells at our church, but our director has completely dropped the ball about that. She asked if I would please audition for them! Of course I said yes! I'm so excited to maybe play handbells again! After that, we walked around and looked at nature for a while. He was so excited. And of course, some pictures of EJ stopping to smell the roses. Next we went to the Southern Museum of Flight. I had never been before, so I was glad for the opportunity to look around. In one room, they had tables set up where kids could build things with K-nex. I actually have no idea how to spell that. But you know what they are. The Scrollworks performed eight classical/Christian songs. I asked the director about signing EJ up. The string lessons are for ages 8-19, but they take 6 and 7 year olds and teach them the recorder. As we were sitting there watching, EJ said, "One of those girls, I had serious doubts about her. Her hair looked just like two of my friends and I wasn't sure if she was one of them or not." He cracks me up. So, it was a pretty cool day. Would have been better if hubby could have come, too, but when the boss says work, whatcha gonna do? Maybe next year we can make it a family thing. :-)
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7/20/2013 12:50:04 pm
Love this!! Thanks so much for posting so quickly--looks like you and EJ had a great time--too bad your family outing was hi-jacked so close to it happening!! So, so excited for you to audition!! And for EJ to have an opportunity to play the recorded in the kids' group! ..."serious doubts"--he cracks me up too!! :)
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