So, here we go. Last Saturday Abbey and I both had a free afternoon, so we took advantage of the above average weather and headed over to Staunton. We had a wonderful time meandering around Gypsy Hill Park, watching some little guys play baseball, noticing the beautiful and the ugly among the ducks and fish, and so on and so forth. After moseying around the park for a while, we headed over to downtown Staunton to catch a meal at Baja Bean, a local Tex-Mex restaurant. We also visited the train station and...
I got to be the brakeman!!
There were also some silly people on the train
...and some normal ones.
We then headed down to the Mockingbird to catch a show. The opening act was a duo, a guitar player and a precussionist. They played various bluesy tunes and then turned the show over to the supercharged Fishtank Ensemble. The band was made up of a fiddle player, a guitarist, an upright bassist, and a vocalist/saw/violin player. They did some traditional European dance music as well as flamenco and various other styles. It was a pretty amazing performance. One of our favorite parts was when the vocalist had a sing-off with the saw. If you don't know what a saw sounds like when played with a bow, it pretty much sounds like an opera singer. It was pretty amazing and energetic music. And that was that. It turned out to be quite the wonderful evening, not only because of the music, but also (and more importantly) because I was hanging out with an amazing young woman. If you have any question about my picture choices, you can ask Abbey because she sent them to me.
that's all for now,
Dietrich
