Apparently it's arrived early this year! :-)

Robb, Jared, and I went to Asheville on Friday afternoon/evening. We spent the afternoon wandering around the downtown area (window shopping and exploring), and then that evening we went to the Decemberists' concert. We had a really good time. I didn't really know many of the songs in the first half of the concert (their latest album--which I've only heard a few times), but the second half was full of songs that were more familiar to me.

This was a pretty exciting event for me. I hadn't been to a concert like that since...Jr. High I think! And it was good to do something unusual and different.

In other December-y type news:
I got the choir started on the Christmas cantata before I left for AR. I gave them a 'homework assignment' before I left. They were to practice the two sections we'd started on that evening.

So yesterday evening we had choir practice. I was all prepared to go through and review what we'd done before only to discover that they didn't really need it. So I had Jared turn on the CD and off we went! I was quite impressed. It wasn't note/rhythm perfect, but it was much further along than they've done before! There is even a rhythm in that song that they have always had trouble with that I was sure I'd have to go over repeatedly, as usual, to fix. But to my astonished delight, they did it perfectly every time!!!

It was great. If learning the rest of the cantata goes so well, we'll be in excellent shape!

...Now I just have to figure out how to do the narration...

~The Bunny