Classy Night in Madison

Deirdre and I went to the symphony last weekend in Madison. We saw D's favorite piece, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto and she loved it (she describes it as a demented circus), so it was such a nice evening. Here's a YouTube of the piece we saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qeIlgnme2U

The symphony plays at the Overture Center, which is beautiful, and if I were classy and had many, many more friends, I would get married there.

Inside the theater, there's a beautiful organ and the whole thing was just beautiful.

Afterwards we went to a bar across the street called The Icon (half off your first drink when you show your concert ticket!). The walls were covered with giant photos of old stars like Marilyn, the Beatles, and Audrey and they play old movies on the TV screens instead of annoying sports. It reminded me of a bar I love in Chicago called Kit Kat, minus the drag show that happens nightly.

The night may or may not have ended as classily as it began, but it was such a nice night! So much fun to see yet another side of Madison that didn't involve drunken sophomore boys.

Don't get me wrong, that's awesome too.

Cait, I'm getting a head start.

Last month, I went on a hike with a friend as part of a glaciers project she was working on. (She's in the school of education here, and her homework is awesome like that. Literally, go for a hike and take pictures of moraines.) We were driving through suburbs and little tree lined roads and then we drove over a hill and saw this:

After having a view of a parking lot for the past few months, acres of corn and blue skies were exciting, okay?

This was before the trees really started to change, too, and I have to say, a Wisconsin Fall will give New Hampshire a run for its money. We really don't have all those mountains, but we do have adorable barn cats napping in the sun.

See the little guy?

Anyway, it's rainy and yucky here right now so I needed a reminder of what it could really look like. Also I've been working on this 4-6 page paper for a week now and just can't seem to finish it for some reason...

Pictures of my display rock to come.