Daegan is sooooo excited! Multiplication Vacation, the DVD from a company called Googol Power, finally arrived in today’s mail. It’s sold out at both the publisher and Indigo/Chapters (Canada’s biggest book retailer), so tracking a copy down was a challenge. I finally found one used on amazon. Daegan asked me to get it months ago [...]
Our family went to see Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, presented as part of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s line-up this year. It was wonderful, and all of us—from the 6-year-old to the 41-year-old—enjoyed it. We got there a bit early to pick up tickets from the box office, and they had some live rabbit entertainment [...]
Last week we went to another of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s Education Series concerts, this one called Music in Motion, which highlighted different musical and dance styles: waltz, tango, polka, samba, cancan, ragtime, etc. You may recall that last month we went to a concert about the sounds of nature, which I wrote about here. [...]
This morning we went to one of the CPO’s Education Series concerts, entitled Adventures in Nature. The conductor arrived with twigs in her hair, and a green leafy vine wrapped around her skirt. The orchestra performed various pieces highly evocative of nature, like Flight of the Bumblebee and Swan Lake, and also made nature sounds [...]