Ahhhhheeeyyyyyy

This past weekend I had the pleasure and privledge of being invited to "Pops by the Sea" by my wonderful sister and brother in law. My brother in law 'buys' a VIP table and enjoys a night before auction and then the actual concert by the Boston Pops the following day.
Saturday I spent the day getting the kids set with groceries and getting myself packed for an overnight. I loaded myself in the car and headed into my usually 45 min drive to the cape. Then I hit this... Yes...traffic. I hardly ever head to the cape on a Saturday and this is why. So there I sat in traffic bored...listening to music and then talking to my mother on the phone...when it hit me! OMG! I forgot my tickets!!! So yes, I was at this point at the bridge and had to get off, turn around and head back home to get my tickets and then back again to the cape. I sat again in traffic and arrived at the auction with 1 hour left of the festivities. To my delight, the auction had just begun.

Henry Winkler aka the Fonz from "Happy Days" (only one of my favorite tv shows I watched as a kid!) was the guest conductor and he was having fun running parts of the auction. He helped raise big bucks (a painting went for $17,000 and 3 sets of Mr. Winkler's books went for $5,500 each). The auction was entertaining and after there was mingling, food and conversation. Yep, that is me conversing with "The Fonz!" :) He was very personable and warm. He had been at a local elementary school the evening before talking about his own learning disabilities. We spoke briefly about this and about his books he's written.

After the event ended, I went out for the evening and enjoyed the night life on Main Street in Hyannis. As a teen, we used to hang out and drive up and down the street checking out the boys!
What a Different place Main Street in Hyannis has become! Not to many years ago it seemed all but abandoned. It has now become populated with bars and is open until past 1am! We met up with my neice, met her friends. My sister and I accompianied my neice to one of her favorite haunts and then after dancing with a young crowd, decided to go to a jazz bar that was filled with people more our age. The funniest thing was bumping into the husband of a good friend of mine.

Sunday afternoon we dressed and headed off to the green and to settle ourselves as our table. We listened to some great pre-show music, went for lunch with my brother in law and then enjoyed a day at the Pops!

Keith Lockhart beginning the performance with a pops rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.

Henry Winkler, guest conductor

We were treated to a comical conducting by Henry Winkler and then renditions of Broadway songs by Leonard Bernstein. The day was beautiful all around and I'm forever grateful to my Sister and Brother in law for the invite and chance to enjoy such a lovely day!