After acquainting ourselves with the space at St. John's and practicing a little, we went to lunch with Jim Klein at a local deli. After a quick lunch, we were back to the church to get everything ready for the concert.
We had a great audience, especially considering it was a daytime concert during the week. There were people in the audience from the church, as well as people who had just seen posters up around town, and friends who had traveled from Sheboygan and Milwaukee. Here is a picture with one of our most dedicated blog followers who was also an expert zoom button presser, Andrew Joseph:
The church threw us a reception after the concert where we got to mingle with everyone who came. We met a family who lives in Iowa that happened to be vacationing in Wisconsin and saw our poster up in their hotel and decided to check out our concert. Their daughters played viola and cello and they seemed to really enjoy our playing as well as bonding over our Iowa connection! We also met a member of the church who had been attending St. John's for "his whole life." We were told that he was a retired clock maker, so Ruth asked him how our rhythm was, and he smiled and said that it was very good! Here's a picture of us with Rev. Jim Klein who did a lot of work for us for this concert. Wisconsin people should check out his play at the church this weekend, we hear it's very good and very funny!
After the concert and reception, we loaded up our car and headed straight from the church to Minneapolis (well, technically we went straight to a Starbucks...), but not before taking a picture of the church sign advertising the Sorella Duo headlining for Jim's play:
And then we were on the wide open roads of Wisconsin, hopped up on caffeine and taking no prisoners. For dinner, we stopped in the coolest town ever: Stanley, Wisconsin. Here are some pictures highlighting our time there:
(We dedicate these pictures of this lion water fountain to Penelope,
who was sure that she heard lion sounds in the Biber sonata)
(Ruth was very excited to get cheese curds at A&W
because they are not available on the East Coast)
After our dinner and sightseeing in the great town of Stanley, we were really loopy, as one might imagine we would be after playing multiple recitals and driving halfway across the country. Here's a picture that Ruth took after I pointed out that we were passing a car with a Utah license plate. We call it: "YEAH! Thumbs up, Utah guy!"
Then Ruth tried to take some pictures of me that didn't look ridiculous and were also perhaps not the safest plan while driving. Here's how that went:
So, eventually we calmed down and made it to my home in Minneapolis where we were greeted by some crazy guy named Charles who jumped onto the hood of my car and started yelling about how excited he was that two Bergman girls had just driven into his driveway (said crazy guy may in fact be our brother-in-law).
We were greeted not only by Charles, but also by Jessica, our dog Andye, and the dog we are fostering named Sam who Ruth promptly fell in love with. We're working on convincing Ben that he needs an adorable pit bull so Ruth can bring her back on the plane. Here are Ruth and Sam bonding (Ben, please take note).
Well, there you go. That's what happens when you coop a couple Bergman sisters up in a car for 24 hours over 3 days with a camera and a blog to write. Concert in Minneapolis tomorrow night and then we're off to Iowa!
Hi to Andrew Joseph. MMM. Cheese curds. Leah, please keep your hands on the wheel. Oh my. Glad you're nearing the end of this journey. I fear for your sanity.
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