Staycation

I'm so excited because my parents are going to be here to visit tomorrow night! :) They packed up the van with some furniture to bring us and are driving through. Today they were in Montreal, tonight they are in Vermont, and tomorrow night they'll be with us. I'm still deciding what fun things we will do. I took 3 days off work next week for their visit, and in addition my boss gave me the whole weekend off just to be nice! It's like I'm on vacation!

Today Nathan and I got a zipcar and went to Home Depot. I have been wanting to do some gardening and this full weekend seemed like the right opportunity. I loaded up on tools, bulbs and pots of mums....and tonight I'm reading up on what the heck I'm supposed to do with those!

Yesterday it rained and rained, drizzle then downpour. Fortunately we're not flooding like much of the East Coast, but it sure made things soggy. Nevertheless, we braved the rains to go out last night and see Portico Quartet in Cambridge--so worth it! I have followed up here and there on this band ever since I saw them playing outside the Pompidou in Paris in 2006. When I saw their name in this week's concert listings I knew we had to go. The sound in the intimate venue was great.

Nathan's heard me say it enough, but if you're British, play unique jazz and travel the world with your buddies, can you really get any cooler? I think not. You can hear "Clipper" below....definitely worth a listen.