Date Night!

Last night Rob and I took the night off and went on a fabulous double date with our friends Bret and Kora :) Christy very sweetly offered to watch the kids as we knew we would be out late (thank you!). A couple months ago, we discovered that Yann Tiersen, who composed the soundtrack to the movie "Amelie", was coming to Dallas. As we love the movie and the soundtrack is beautiful, we bought tickets.

We started off the evening with dinner at a local restaurant that serves sushi, thai and seafood. The food was fantastic, although it took them quite a while to get it out to us. That was fine as we had a lot of fun talking :) We then headed off to Dallas. I had printed out directions, but they were quite confusing. We got to the general area we knew the theater was at, then spent the next hour leisurely touring the area in an attempt to find at least one street listed on the directions. We finally got back on the highway and discovered that we had gotten off two exits too early.

We got there as the second group, Sleep Whale (I think?) was playing, which we were actually glad about. Their music wasn't bad - Kora and I agreed that we would have probably liked it if it hadn't been so loud you couldn't hear it. It was like getting a massage though as the whole room was vibrating. The flame of the candle on the table in front of us jumped every time they hit a bass note. It wasn't as bad as the two bands that played before El Ten Eleven (the performance we went to last month) though. I didn't even have to plug my ears, although they were numb by the time we left :) It was interesting though as there were only two members of the group. One played an electric guitar (and occasionally a recorder - which I don't think I've seen played since 4th grade) and the other played a cello. I have never thought of the cello as an instrument that might be included in that type of music.

Sleep Whale finished up and Yann Tiersen came out with his group, consisting of a drummer, two guys who mostly played electric guitars (one was bass), and one who alternated between a sort of keyboard, singing/howling, a ukulele (which was hooked up to an amp thingy like an electric guitar) and several other instruments. The bassist also played an instrument that looked like a mini keyboard, but you blow in it and it sounds like an accordion. Tiersen alternated between several instruments including an electric guitar, a violin and the keyboard/recorder thingy. The music wasn't quite what we were expecting. Most of their songs were much harder than anything of his that we were familiar with. They played incredibly well and you could tell they were a million steps above other bands we'd seen. They were all amazingly talented. I have never seen anyone play the violin as well as Tiersen played it. I didn't love every song, or even the majority of songs, and it wasn't at all what we expected, but it was interesting!

We got home earlier than we thought we would as we drove in the driveway before 12:30am. It was so much fun! Even with the very slow service at dinner, the impromptu tour of Dallas, and the "different" performance, we had a blast!

The side effects of my vitamin d pill have gotten much better, which is wonderful :) I'm feeling much better than I have in years, except for this little thing called morning sickness, which for me translates to all day sickness. It's not bad yet though and I'm grateful for it as it's a good sign that the pregnancy is going well :) We know we've told people early (I'm only about 6.5 weeks), but we decided that even if something goes wrong, we'd rather have the support of our friends to make it through it.