Nov. 30, 2008 - Thanksgiving and Field Trips
I'm feeling quite out of it lately with the blogging! I've missed keeping up with everyone - I just can't devote the time to it lately! Once in a while is better than nothing, though, right?
We had a whole week off for Thanksgiving. We took a couple of field trips and had fun with my sister's family that was visiting from Utah for the week. We went to the St. Louis Science Center. My kids always enjoy that. We saw the Omni Max movie 'Sharks.' It was OK. My favorite field trip, though, was the St. Louis Symphony. Oh, I LOVE the symphony!! They have educational concerts twice a year and we've been going for years. This concert was 'Pictures at an Exibition' by Mussorgsky/Ravel. Mussorgsky went to an art exibition and afterwards went home and put the pictures into music on the piano. Ravel later orchestrated Mussorgsky's work. It was beautiful! We were able to listen first to the piano piece and then to how Ravel changed it for the whole orchestra. I think there were about 4-5 pictures that they 'played.' The St. Louis Symphony is amazing!
