Final Destination LXCVI

Things have been a little crazy over the past couple of days, so once again I must apologize to my faithful readers for not updating the blog last night. I hope you all understand.

Since our concert yesterday wasn't until the evening, we were able to finally have some downtime and not have to feel like we were rushing around. I actually got a gig singing at a funeral at Zach's church in the morning so I woke up and did that. Ruth had lunch with her very first violin teacher who is now a Suzuki teacher in Minneapolis. After lunch, Ruth and I took the doggies, Andye and Sam, on a walk to a cute little coffee shop a couple of blocks from my house. The rain had once again followed us into Minnesota and it had rained in the morning but by the time we went for our walk the sky had cleared and it was a lovely day, which was good because our concert was going to be outside that evening. After our caffeine break, we headed down to Woodlake Lutheran Church (incidentally, the same church I had been at that morning) to practice and see the space where we would be playing. Ruth finally got to meet my dear friend Zach, who organized the concert at the church and created a lovely little space for us to play.

The concert in the courtyard was a lot of fun. The audience was great and even laughed at all of our jokes!

After the concert we planned on going out to dinner with friends and Jessica and Charles. Everyone met at our house and from there we were going to walk to a dinner destination. Unfortunately there was a minor disaster awaiting us at home. While we had all been at the concert the foster dog, Sam, had somehow escaped from her kennel and broken into my bedroom, locking herself in. She chewed up the contents of my trashcan, had strewn a bag full of beads all over the floor, chewed up my baton, and peed on Ruth's suitcase. It was not a very pretty scene. The clean-up set our dinner plans back quite a bit so we decided to just order in pizzas and have a little party in our living room.

So that was Friday.

This morning we had a later start than planned due to a couple of alarm clock mishaps. Despite this setback, we made great time driving down to Atlantic, Iowa for our friend Jonathan's wedding. We thought that we were getting to the wedding with 6 minutes to spare until we realized that Ruth had put the address of the reception into the GPS instead of the ceremony address. We ended up getting to the wedding just in time, but the wedding party was already lined up and we didn't want to intrude. We waited until everyone had entered the sanctuary and then snuck in to watch the ceremony. It was a beautiful wedding full of love. At the reception, we met up with our parents and Philip, and Ruth got to visit with her high school prom date, Dan. We got in a few dances before having to leave early to get some sleep back in Iowa City since we will need to wake up early to play in church tomorrow morning.

We are looking forward to playing our last concert tomorrow for our friends and family in our hometown, but I'm sure that it will be bittersweet once this whole experience wraps up.