2007-04-20 - 10:42 a.m.

Elegant, sparkling, musical, grand, romantic, funny, exciting, thunderous, peaceful, patriotic, spiritual...

Last night (after Mom trimmed my hair and I dressed up in my sport coat, tie, and slacks) James, Sarah Grace, Mom, and I went to see Andr� Rieu and The Johann Strauss Orchestra at the Colonial Center!

We had to wait in the lobby for about a half an hour before we could go to our seats. Most of the people were senior citizens. Many had canes and walkers. They were dressed up in dressy clothes like us and they had on fine jewelry and shiny shoes and lots of perfume.

Mom let me wear my black cowboy boots with my slacks and she put shoe polish on them and shined them up nice but they were nothing like Andr� Rieu and the three tenor's shoes! Their shoes, with their tuxedos with tails, looked like glass! It must have been some special coating. (Dad just now called while I'm writing this and he said they were patent leather shoes.)

Mom and Sarah Grace had on their black peau de soie shoes which are very, very, dressy. Sarah wore her pearl earrings and Mom wore her big earrings, not her new diamond earrings. I loved Mom's hair with hairspray and she wore lots of makeup that looked great.

When they introduced Andr� Rieu and the orchestra, they came out from the back and walked through the crowd to the stage.

Andr� Rieu is a very dashing and handsome man who stands tall with his violin and he has elegant hair that is longish, and he has a golden watch chain. He also wears a jewel brooch on the neck of his fancy white shirt.

The women had on beautiful silken gowns, each in a different color, that they had to pick up to walk. Their jewelry was beautiful and sparkling and fancy. Their gowns had beads and sequins and jewels and most were lam�. It was very elegant, very elegant.

The show was also funny. They had jokes and gags but they had very romantic songs, too.

When they played "Blue Danube" the senior citizens started waltzing in the aisles. The lights turned the whole room and stage blue. He teased them by suddenly stopping the music and they would stand there and laugh. Those old folks looked like happy people who have loved each other for eighty years.

I was wishing that I could dance with my mom and James could dance with Sarah but our seats weren't on the floor. We would have danced if we had been on the floor. Even though our seats were close up, we weren't on the floor because the tickets were very, very, expensive. That's why only four of us went. Only those of us who really, really, wanted to go got tickets. Mom wishes she had taken Webb. She's right, he would have loved it.

Andr� Rieu showed us pictures on the big screens of their concert in Vienna. The Sch�nbrunn Palace was golden and there was a beautiful fountain and things I've never seen.

One young woman last night sang and she was dressed like an angel with blonde hair and her dress was sparkling and it moved and changed colors from white to pinkish to bluish. It was like water, like it had a life of its own.

At the end they dropped balloons and also played "America the Beautiful" and "Amazing Grace" with a bagpipe. I almost fell asleep during Brahms' Lullaby near the end. It was all so wonderful.

We picked up cheeseburger baskets on the way home from the only place that was open because we were starving. We never eat before these things because we are so excited. We also got root beers.

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