Last night after John went to bed, Maria was watching The Merry Widow ( she has a thing about operettas) when we heard some very, VERY loud bangs outside. There was a fantastic firework display on the Hudson, it seemed to be coming from a boat partway between us and Liberty. We still don’t know what it was for, but it was superb. Maria even woke John up, he seemed to be pleased to see it.
Today has been a strange day weather wise, lovely sunshine and then sudden storms. John says they even had a thunderstorm and hail at work. That’s only about 3 blocks away, and he says the hail was only around one side of the building?!?!
We spent the morning doing basic house keeping, tidying up, washing up and doing the laundry. Plus finishing off the head of a bear, and then went off to Trinity church for one of their free concerts.
It was the Harvard Krokodiloes, a group of 12 Harvard undergrads who did akapela singing. Their repertoir was very varied ranging from Jerusalem to Run-around Sue, their presentation was excellent they seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly. As usual it will be available on the web in a couple of days.
Krokodiloes video
The web is a wonderful thing, we can listen to the breakfast show and all the comedy shows etc from radio 7 while Maria works on her bears. She finished another one today, he’s rather sweet.
I don’t know how we’re all going to fit in her suitcases.