Wait, I forgot, there’s more about Saturday!

Saturday the 7th, the day before our anniversary, turned out to be just an amazingly packed day and it’s taking 3 blog posts just to cover it all!

To recap, first, we discovered the new coffee shop – the Flying Roadrunner – in Old Town with the excellent coffee. By the way, I had reverted to instant coffee while I was overwhelmed by cancer treatments, and was recently thinking I needed to get out my French press again, so finding some excellent coffee beans was perfect timing. (I’m grinding it myself and brewing it for 24 hours in cold water in a French press.)

Then after getting coffee, I was amazed to discover the handpan drum, being played Dean the street musician. A musical instrument easy enough that maybe I could learn to play it! Then we went to the botanical garden. Then back to Old Town for lunch on the patio at Church Street Café where we ate huevos rancheros and listened to the guitarist. Then we discovered Cristina making punch quilt wall hangings in front of the artist’s co-op and I was like, this is it! The new art form I’ve been looking for!

All in one day. Then I told you I’d write about Sunday in my next post, but no, turns out there’s still more to Saturday. I forgot to mention that evening, after a very eventful day, we still had enough energy to go back down to the Old Town & Biopark area for Zoo Nights, which is an outdoor music event at the zoo. I love music in the park. I’m not a fan of the zoo, but any park will do!

There were three bands playing outside at the zoo. (Plus one in the theater, but we’re not going into theaters during a pandemic). The first outdoor band, near the entrance, was a jazz band. They were ok but we figured we should check out the others. The next one, a Latin band, was good and I figured we should stay there, because why mess with a good thing? But John wanted to check out the third band so we continued on. I’m not sure what kind of music the third band was, but I do remember making an abrupt U-turn and going back to the second band.

They were quite good and we enjoyed sitting out on the grass listening to them. https://www.soldelanoche.com/

There was actually a fairly large crowd, they’re just all to the right of the picture. Most people weren’t wearing masks because it was outdoors, but I did see some masks, particularly on children. I feel bad for the parents trying to keep their kids safe from this new more contagious delta variant while they wait for the vaccination to be approved for young kids. The parents who can homeschool are the lucky ones. It’s hard for single parents. I don’t know what I would have done – I was divorced and had to work when my kids were young.

Anyway, back to the concert – I love outdoor concerts because they combine two of my favorite things; being outside and listening to music. I also love being able to wander around and not have to stay put in my seat. Lol, just like a kid.

The final event for the day was the lottery drawing. John and I almost never play the lottery because the odds are stupendously ridiculous, but sometimes for fun we’ll get a ticket. We figured I was having such a streak of good luck that day, with discovering handpan drums and punch quilts, that who knows, maybe I’d win the lottery too!

We didn’t win the lottery, but it was still a great day!

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