This has been a
stubborn upper respiratory tract infection. I took ten days of antibiotics but
my strong suspicion is that it was viral, so I am still just waiting for it to
pass. The main consequence was a very quiet Passover holiday at home for Barry
and me.
But little by little
I am trying to get out. This past weekend we finally went back to Sharon. We
had dinner Friday evening with Dina and family and lunch on Sabbath day with
Simmie. Maya had her closest friend over for lunch and it was fun watching the girls
giggling all afternoon.
We had bought tickets
for “Sesame Street Live” on Sunday afternoon at a lovely classic theater, the
Providence Performing Arts Center (https://www.ppacri.org).
PPAC is a 3100-seat, world class venue located in the heart of
Providence’s arts and entertainment district; it is the second largest theatre
of its kind in the country. PPAC is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places; it has also been ranked by Pollstar as one of the Top Venues
in the world. The theatre became known as the “Jewel of Weybosset Street”
after its doors opened as Loew’s State Movie Palace in 1928.
The beauty of the Theatre combined with the excellence of the
productions makes every event at the Providence Performing Arts Center a work
of art!
The lighting was dim
so pictures were difficult but here are a couple we managed to take. Julia was
totally engrossed in the show! Ella had gone to a friend’s birthday party but
Eliana was thrilled when we asked her to join us, and she was a big help with
Julia.
When we returned to Sharon, with our two little ladies soundly asleep in the back seat, we took off with Ella, Joshua, and Aaron to buy Ella a new bicycle. She is tall enough now to justify buying her a somewhat better bicycle which should last a few years. We headed over to Landry’s Bicycles, a wonderful shop near Sharon, where we are rather certain that we had bought Simmie and Dina their first “real” bicycles back in the late 1980s. The current location is quite a bit larger than it was back then, and they still have a great selection of bicycles and helpful staff. After trying a number of bicycles Ella settled on this one:
The Sunday during Passover was a beautiful day and we headed for a while to the Botanical Gardens, where a new exhibit of works by artist Dale Chihuly was about to open. There are programs planned around the exhibit throughout the coming months and we hope to return to it when our grandchildren visit this summer. Here are a few pictures to give you an idea of the artwork on display.
We had bought tickets for the Mets’ opening day game on April 3rd but I was not up to going. Fortunately, we were able to sell them quite quickly. Unfortunately, after a very good start to the season, the Mets have not been doing very well. But we are still hopeful, and the weather is supposed to be good on Thursday so we now have tickets for the afternoon game they are playing at Citi Field. Let’s hope the weather holds out.
As I end these words, I heard an interesting piece on NPR’s “Fresh Air” about a new book by Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. One of the topics Terry Gross discussed with the author was the appropriateness of ending a sentence with a preposition. Apparently, the thinking on this topic has changed, so I guess it is no longer something of which I need to be afraid. But clearly, I still am.
Have a good week!
Love,
Rebecca
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