Things We did in October and November

 Well, I probably should have titled this "Things I did in October and November", since as I was uploading the pictures I noticed they mostly had me in them. Kent does makes an appearance at the end of this blogpost.
I spent a day in DC touring the Woodrow Wilson House and the Masonic Temple. We actually started off the day with at stop at Georgetown Cupcake, but I didn't take a picture of it.

Had to get my picture taken by this lovely grand piano in the Woodrow Wilson House. Our tour guide told us it was the one antique in the house it was okay to touch!

This is a better view of the music room.

 Afterwards we toured the Masonic Temple.

 This is a picture of the main meeting room. I'd toured the Temple before several years ago but it was interesting to go again.

 I put on a little luau for my Bible Study group.

 We had Hawaiian Haystacks, Hawaiian rolls, coconut cream pie and individual pineapple upside down cakes.

  Later in the month I was able to see the LDS pianist Josh Wright perform at the Washington DC temple visitor's center. He was amazing and made me think I should definitely practice the piano more! (Sorry about the blurry picture.) He played several works by Chopin.

The funny thing about the video I'm inserting in here is that I took it at a slant, so it looks like Josh Wright is performing on a ship that's definitely listing to the left.

I had my annual Halloween piano party at the end of the month and wore my piano costume.

I divided the group into younger and older students.

One activity I did with my younger students was to make a jack-o-lantern face using music symbols. (I cut them out of black adhesive vinyl with my Silhouette so they'd stick on the paper.)

 The older kids did more challenging music games. . .

 Like this matching game with words spelled out on the staff.

The weather was pretty warm, so the kids ate their pizza outside under the deck.

 I used my black painted spooky chandelier for ambiance.

 At the beginning of November we had a new roof put on the house. It was an unseasonably warm 77 degrees that day, so Kent chose a good day to have the work done!

  They had a big crew and were able to complete the work in one day.

 I was impressed with how careful they were to cover the house so there wouldn't be any damage to the siding.

 At the end of November Kent and I had the delightful experience of seeing the play "A Christmas Carol" performed at Ford's Theater in downtown DC.

 The play is performed annually there and Kent and I had gone to see it in 2002 when we lived here before, but I don't remember thinking it was anything special when we went back then.

 This year, however, Kent and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was very well done and they sang lots of Christmas carols, so it was a great way to kick-off the Christmas season.