one of my summer goals....accomplished!

I finally had the chance to go to an outdoor concert and it was held locally which was a huge plus.

Here's a picture of my awesome cello teacher. (Ok, this picture was taken from a great distance with the awesome zoom so it's not the greatest...I wish I had photog talent but unfortunately I don't. ) Anyways, but she's awesome...and so kind....and so encouraging....blah, blah, blah...I could go on all day. I love cello lessons and my cello teacher!!!

a picture from the ground where I was sitting

The girl in the formal dress won a scholarship from this orchestra. I believe she just graduated from high school. She was playing a cello solo backed by the orchestra. It was great!

Now this picture cracks me up. I kind of wanted to leave at intermission but after talking to Jen (my cello teacher), I decided to stay a bit longer. She said, "You can't miss Strauss." Well, I don't particulary like classical music (gasp!!). However, I do like to play it. So of course I had no idea who Strauss was. Well, on this one song, the audience clapped along while the orchestra played. It was so incredibly cool. I was laughing out loud and grinning because it was so fun. When I captured this picture of the director, he was "directing" us to clap loudly.

This concert was definitely a highlight of the summer for me. Oh...and to put the icing on the cake and to top off her awesomeness, my cello teacher called on Sunday afternoon and left me a message thanking me for coming to the concert. How cool!! So totally made my night.

Monday night

As I've mentioned in an earlier blog post, I attended a town hall meeting in my town with my liberal Congressman. He did vote against the stimulus bill and the cap&trade bill but I have a feeling he'll vote yes on healthcare.

Anyways. I was completely shocked at the turnout. Seriously shocked. My Mom and I left our house at 6pm and got there a few minutes after. There was already about 200people there. Probably another 100-150 came after that. Only 100 people were allowed in.

I'm sure many of you have seen videos of other town hall meetings from recently. The tone was the same at ours. A few supporters of ObamaCare were there but the overwhelming majority was against the healthcare reform. We were chanting "Freedom", "No to Socialism", etc....It was completely electrifying to say the least. I came home so charged up!!

The morning hosts on a conservative radio station out of Chicago are a husband-wife team. They are simply incredible and I greatly enjoy listening to them. Well, after the town hall meeting and the turnout on Monday, I just had to write them. I wrote them an email and described the meeting. THEY READ MY LETTER ON THE AIR on Tuesday morning. I'm saying.....this is a huge radio station with thousands of listeners. I was soooooooooo shocked to say the least.

Let me leave with a great, informative link.

This is a link to our local "tea party"-type group. I know that ya'll aren't from our area but they have some really great links under their link page that I encourage you to check out. The link I'll put up is a link to their link page. (PS - It's called the "educate" page.) Here goes....http://www.nwipatriots.com/educate.php

Post edit:

I'll be adding additional, informative links.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=632696