Superb Owl weekend.
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Alan & I spend the weekend before Valentine's Day in Albuquerque. On Friday night, we took a tram up Sandia Peak & ate a great meal at Ten 3, a restaurant that boasts views encompassing approximately 13,000 square miles. We could clearly see the lights of Santa Fe, which is about 40 miles to the northeast. It was a great date night.
On Saturday, we walked around Old Town, which dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. Our plan was to shop for wedding rings, but the jewelry available was exclusively silver/turquoise in the Navajo style, which wasn't what we want. Saturday night, we had tickets to the New Mexico Philharmonic. They played two pieces which were totally different. The first was a new composition by Ellen Reid called "Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today", which Reid said was supposed to catch the tediousness & tension of life during the COVID lockdowns. I suppose it was successful, because it was tedious to listen to it. Alan described it as "20 minutes of pure anxiety". We weren't fans. The second half of the performance was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, my all-time favorite piece of music. The conductor did not use sheet music as he conducted the entire symphony! That astonished me. Listening to this beautiful performance was so moving: soaring joy, excitement, a genuine uplifting of the spirit.
Sunday morning, we attended Mass at San Felipe de Neri Church, founded in 1706. Then we ate breakfast at Church Street Cafe & headed out. We were in a hurry to get home in time to watch the Super Bowl: I'm a big Eagles fan & Alan is a lifelong Chiefs supporter, so our teams were facing off in the Big Game. OBVIOUSLY I wish the Eagles had won, but the Chiefs just flat outplayed us, especially in the second half. It was moderately infuriating to be beaten by our former coach Andy Reid, particularly at the end of the game when he throttled us out with textbook clock management. Coach Reid's greatest weakness when he was the Eagles' head coach was managing the clock. He's been working on it, apparently. Alan was very gracious in victory.
And now, I'm looking forward to baseball. Surely the Rockies won't let me down again this season!
Alan & I spend the weekend before Valentine's Day in Albuquerque. On Friday night, we took a tram up Sandia Peak & ate a great meal at Ten 3, a restaurant that boasts views encompassing approximately 13,000 square miles. We could clearly see the lights of Santa Fe, which is about 40 miles to the northeast. It was a great date night.
On Saturday, we walked around Old Town, which dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. Our plan was to shop for wedding rings, but the jewelry available was exclusively silver/turquoise in the Navajo style, which wasn't what we want. Saturday night, we had tickets to the New Mexico Philharmonic. They played two pieces which were totally different. The first was a new composition by Ellen Reid called "Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today and Today", which Reid said was supposed to catch the tediousness & tension of life during the COVID lockdowns. I suppose it was successful, because it was tedious to listen to it. Alan described it as "20 minutes of pure anxiety". We weren't fans. The second half of the performance was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, my all-time favorite piece of music. The conductor did not use sheet music as he conducted the entire symphony! That astonished me. Listening to this beautiful performance was so moving: soaring joy, excitement, a genuine uplifting of the spirit.
Sunday morning, we attended Mass at San Felipe de Neri Church, founded in 1706. Then we ate breakfast at Church Street Cafe & headed out. We were in a hurry to get home in time to watch the Super Bowl: I'm a big Eagles fan & Alan is a lifelong Chiefs supporter, so our teams were facing off in the Big Game. OBVIOUSLY I wish the Eagles had won, but the Chiefs just flat outplayed us, especially in the second half. It was moderately infuriating to be beaten by our former coach Andy Reid, particularly at the end of the game when he throttled us out with textbook clock management. Coach Reid's greatest weakness when he was the Eagles' head coach was managing the clock. He's been working on it, apparently. Alan was very gracious in victory.
And now, I'm looking forward to baseball. Surely the Rockies won't let me down again this season!
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Date: 2024-01-08 01:56 am (UTC)