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| Just before the New Mexico Philharmonic concert |
Last Saturday our family had an amazing experience.....let me set it up.....
On the morning show of Dillon and Luca's favorite pop radio station they were giving tickets away one morning for some sort of contest. When Dillon heard what the tickets were for he went nuts. The announcement was that the New Mexico Philharmonic was going to be performing an entire show of John Williams music. Dillon LOVES to see and hear live orchestras. Even if you don't know who John Williams is....you KNOW John Williams. He is a composer and has written some of the most famous movie score music in the world. For example: Superman, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, ET, Raiders of the Lost Arch, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park....AND Star Wars!!! There are lots more but these are ones that "everyone" knows.
Recall that Dillon did not want to celebrate his "re-birthday" AKA transplant anniversary. Well, Sean and I overrode this desire and bought tickets to this concert as our family's celebration and remembrance and reward for enduring the past year. Each of us had a long, hard road....so we wanted to honor that.
When I handed the boys the tickets at dinner the night before the performance they went crazy....hooting, hollering, hand clapping....pure excitement.
We drove down to Albuquerque early. Had a nice dinner together and off to the concert we went. It was on the campus of UNM...which Dillon has declared is the college he will be attending (yahoo In-State tuition :) He has never been on that campus and he was awestruck and making comments like...."I can't believe I will be walking around here in a few years." (Mama brain screaming....me either buddy!!) Anyway, we come up to the entrance to the theater and there is a crowd gathered....then we saw them....the entire cast of Star Wars!! Grown adults decked out in the most realistic, amazingly detailed costumes I have ever seen. OF COURSE...we had no camera, not even a phone camera, because flash photos are not allowed in the theater so why carry one, right. I asked a nice fellow to take a photo of the boys and send it to me....and that is what you see above. We could have taken a zillion photos...the whole group of storm troopers where a sight to see. We had a fabulous time and it did our hearts and souls good to mark the occasion in this way.
awesome, wish I was there for that one.
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