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May. 3rd, 2006
A nice little vacation
May. 3rd, 2006 10:04 amMoe and I spent a 4-day weekend in Colonial Williamsburg. Great weather, sunny and mild. We heard a harpsichord concert and a glass armonica concert... Glass armonica. Ben Franklin invented it; a bunch of carefully tuned glass bowls on a spindle that you play with damp fingers. Pretty cool. We also took a tour of their archaeology department and a candlelit walking "legends and myths" tour which was pretty cool.
Definite highlights were "Trellis," a local restaurant with yummy food and "Gambols," which is what they call one of the Colonial Williamsburg taverns when they stop selling overpriced modern BBQ and start serving modern finger food and period alcoholic beverages. The taverner was very amusing and the pair of musicians were cool; we hummed some of "Gathering Peascods" (hey, they asked for any 18th century requests; I asked if 17th century was all right) and they picked it right up. Moe and I danced a verse for the company, even, although we got confused at one point - there's 16 beats of "sliding," or running around in a circle, but with just two of us that didn't work so well. So we tossed in "siding," another English Country Dance figure, and called it good.
No, we weren't drunk.
Definite highlights were "Trellis," a local restaurant with yummy food and "Gambols," which is what they call one of the Colonial Williamsburg taverns when they stop selling overpriced modern BBQ and start serving modern finger food and period alcoholic beverages. The taverner was very amusing and the pair of musicians were cool; we hummed some of "Gathering Peascods" (hey, they asked for any 18th century requests; I asked if 17th century was all right) and they picked it right up. Moe and I danced a verse for the company, even, although we got confused at one point - there's 16 beats of "sliding," or running around in a circle, but with just two of us that didn't work so well. So we tossed in "siding," another English Country Dance figure, and called it good.
No, we weren't drunk.