It was so nice to have a weekend off. On Friday I ended up resting most of the day. On Saturday, Dan spent most of the day in bed, trying to make up for the lack of sleep he's been getting since wrestling season started.

Bill got out the door to head to Battle Creek with the high school team about 5AM. We all rested afterwards. We ate a leisurely breakfast, rested some more, then took the little one out for lunch and pie at Baker's Square.  Then we took naps, until it was time for his friend's parents to come pick him up for his overnight visit.

Dan and I then headed into Ann Arbor. We wandered around for a bit, did some light shopping, and stopped off at a coffee shop for tea and cookies. We then headed for the New York Philharmonic concert. Only in Ann Arbor is a major classical music concert like a sporting event or rock concert, complete with scalpers and people with signs seeking tickets out in front of the concert hall. In the first half, the string section (plus a couple of brass and woodwind players) performed Mozart's 29th Symphony. It was light and fluffy and pretty. In the second half the entire orchestra came out and played the much more deep and serious Mahler's 5th Symphony (it goes from death and grief to acceptance and then on to tentative life and joy). They were great! When the superb horn soloist stood up to take his bow afterwards, the girl behind me started yelling "You're a bad*ss! You're a bad*ss!!" at the top of her lungs. Only in Ann Arbor!

Then we headed to a big bookstore and did some shopping, before coming home and snuggling in front of the fireplace for awhile before bedtime.

It was a very nice day.