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There are tickets still available for Trans-Siberian Orchestra this Saturday. My husband Steve and I are going with some friends. I’ve always wanted to go but never managed to quite get there (Mannheim Steamroller is also on my list…maybe next year). My friend who suggested it, a mother of two boys, doesn’t get out much and I expect things are going to get crazy as she is turned loose in downtown Seattle without the usual obstruction to fun two kids can create. Yes, I am child-free, and I like it that way. I don’t know how people with kids even think straight over all the racket they make.
Anyway, we’ve got super seats for the 3 PM show in order to allow as much post-concert time downtown as possible – I hear booking babysitters, even family, for child-watching can be a real hassle! She wants a fancy dinner out and maybe some shopping. Of course we will take the Monorail from Seattle Center to Westlake Center.
We are making sure the husbands get into the holiday spirit early this year. Earlier than December 1st seemed a little unreasonable, so that’s why this concert seemed to fit our bill perfectly. There’s nothing like a bah-humbug partner to put a wet blanket – and not one of white snow – on holiday festivities.
Also planned this weekend is a visit to a Westover Tree Farm, a family-owned tree farm in Maple Valley (click here for a list of tree farms and u-cut tree sources). We’ll select an appropriately sized Noble fir to bring back to our new townhome to decorate. The size of the tree is still under negotiation and is largely determined by my husband’s energy level each year. See, stringing lights on a tree is an art. In my family, we just twirled the string around and around. When I got married and had my first Xmas with husband I was delighted by how he put the lights on the tree. He was taught by HIS dad to put the lights up and down every branch. You wouldn’t (or maybe you would if you do it this way) understand what a huge difference this makes in the overall impression of the tree. And there is no going back. I am trying for a 8-footer this year, but we’ll see what kind of mood he is in on Sunday.
I hope you get your holiday season off to a great start and do something fun this weekend!