Trip to the Civic Orchestra

Any chance I get, I'm going to try my best to get the boys to the orchestra!  This time it was the Civic Orchestra and tickets were the right price! Basically a lot less than what a normal orchestra ticket would cost. Actually, parking alone was almost $40 for the 1.5 hours that night!

Plus, also just the stress driving into the city.  Graham has gotten into this hobby of plane spotting and taking photos of airplanes. I managed to catch this one right above us through the sun-roof!

And yes, seems that I'm sitting in the backseat these days.  Pha!

Ok, looking for food as we arrive. The Art Museum is near by as well. Haven't had a chance to go back lately:

After a $50 meal at Chick-Fil-A (sheesh!), we head into the Orchestra.  And it's free seating tonight!  We were told any seat except for the ones on stage. The guy was being funny. LOL!

We could have sat aaaaaalllll the way up there! But nah, we went with about the 6th or 7th row in from the very front, aisle/to the side.

I never did realize what was right above the stage. Cool!

Charlie is a bit cold, so he's clapping with his hands through his shirt. Silly boy, ha ha!

There were actually only 3 pieces of music. The first 2 were shorter, and actually the Quartet with strings were pretty cool during the 2nd piece. There was 1 lady with a violin whom I particular really liked. There was just something about the way she played! And then, intermission and then the final piece - which did go on for quite a bit!  Charlie ended up falling asleep on my shoulder. LOL!

Another good night!

We actually couldn't get back to the car the same way we came up to the street from. So there was some extra walking involved.  But thankfully all good :-)

There were some pretty cool lightning storms on the way home and we were able to catch some good lightning strikes on our phone!

Pretty amazing stuff!

We were probably more than halfway home, when Bobby finally said, "Your car!".  And yup, actually had my car parked at one of my work locations.  Sooooo, it was another 15 minutes to get to my car and then and extra 20 minutes to get home.  Too funny!!  Managed to catch a bit more of the storm on camera though:

No other performances planned so far.  Josh Groban is coming into town though this summer!  Bobby is not a fan, and tickets are over $100... so, maybe it's just me and one of the boys. As I am hitting the big 50 this year, my friend did mention it should be "Year of Cindy". So I'm going to make it all count. Ha! :-)