SATURDAY-SUNDAY

I´ll just post a quick one here, as my brother Ward, and sister-in-law Jane from Huntsville, Alabama will be joining me starting tomorrow. They are to arrive at 7:30AM after an overnight trip.

SERENDIPITOUS SATURDAY
In the evening, I headed for the park, this time, the Botanical Gardens, which is probably a mile or so away. On arriving at the park, I noticed a pretty good crowd of people streaming into the park. Oblivious, as usual, I joined the crowd. It was dusk, and pretty cool for mid-summer. I followed the crowd deep into the park, and came to a place where everyone was sitting on the grass. So I sat on the grass. After about 10 minutes, the music started, and it was pretty good. It was a male vocalist, accompanied by various strings.

Later, doing my research, I found that I had happened on a performance of El Yotivenco "the band founded by actor/singer Rodrigo de la Serna, which recreates “tangos lunfardos”.

SUNDAY
Another day, another park. This time the Southwest quarter of connected parks and pedestrian plazas
which stretches for miles in all directions and bears many different names. I´ve never seen so many people enjoying the outdoors, yet it didn´t seem crowded. It´s a beautiful place, and I wish I could post pictures of it. I walked past the zoo, which had a waiting line, into the park, through the Rose Garden and around one of six lakes. The Rose Garden is a park within a park, with restricted access. It´s free, but no pets, no bicycles, no futbol, etc. A very civilized park!

I know that Jane has a laundry list of things for us to do while they are here. I´m looking forward to it, especially a boat trip to Montevideo, Uraguay. More later.