Yesterday Suzanna took her grandpa (Susan's dad, Roger) to a Veterans Day program held on the university campus. Suzanna's geography teacher, himself in the military, encouraged his students to attend and suggested that they invite a veteran to accompany them . . . . so Suzanna did that! She didn't have school yesterday anyway, so she phoned Grandpa and asked if he could pick her up. Afterward I asked Suzanna for a debriefing, and she said that it had been interesting but that the speakers "weren't really talking with seventh-graders in mind"; she didn't know really what their speeches were about. At least it was quality grandpa/granddaughter time.
This evening Susan and Suzanna went off to a rosemaling workshop (sponsored by our Sons of Norway lodge) that will continue all day tomorrow, so Abigail, Hillary, and I went by ourselves to a music concert, the next one in the Dickinson Area Concert Association's series for this season. We thoroughly enjoyed Cahal Dunne, an Irish pianist and singer who has lived in the U.S. for a couple decades. He told jokes (very funny) between songs and played instrumental solos (expertly--he's a classically trained pianist) and accompanied himself as he sang (with an easy-to-listen-to voice) and changed his suit coat often to match the kinds of songs that he would be playing (e.g., red/white/blue for patriotic tunes). And it was a super-long concert; we definitely got our money's worth! You can hear some of his jokes, piano playing, and singing here.
From all of your comments and the enthusiasm of the girls when they returned, it sounds like Suzanna and I missed a great concert. However, we did have fun at our workshop, so that makes up for it a little.
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