Stepping Out of the Boat

Bloomington is such a great place to live! The Parks and Rec Department puts on all sorts of free entertainment in the parks. We went to enjoy one of these benefits of living in B-town on Saturday evning. I (Claire) had read in the paper on Friday morning that the Bloomington Symphony would be performing at Bryan Park at 6:30 on Saturday evening. We had a wedding to attend that day, too, so we ended up rushing like mad to get to the park with our picnic dinner. When we got there, we found an empty stage. This picture tells the whole story.


As it turns out, the concert was really on Sunday night, but I didn't know that. We enjoyed our picnic nonetheless.




On Sunday, we had some people over to watch the World Cup - in High Definition, of course. Here we are cheering loudly, "Viva Italia!" or something to that effect.


After the World Cup Party, during which we both ate way too much yummy food, we packed up some bing cherries (one of my favorite fruits) and headed to the park. Thank goodness this time there were hundreds of people at the park sitting on blankets and enjoying picnics awaiting the start of the concert. I was very happy - not only because we arrived on the right day at the right time, but because I got to eat bing cherries with John while listening to live music on a balmy - but not too balmy - summer's eve.