The Road to CSO

Again, yesterday I joined my friends to the concert. This time a smaller group, and we all fit into my friend's cute little red beetle. Left evanston around quarter till seven, and headed downtown to the concert hall. The program was CSO playing Sheherazade, but something happened on the way and we missed Sheherazade which was the first part before intermission. What was the thing that happened? Well, to make a long story short, the car ran over a huge hole on Lakeshore drive and it basically exploded. None of us however realized it did, and so my friend kept on driving for another 10 mins or so. Until we made a turn and came to a stop at the light, then we smelled something very bad and pulled over. Apparently, there was no air left in the tire - completely flat! And we'd been driving like that without knowing. So dangerous. Luckily there was no accident and we were safe. Called up service, and asked them to check before replacing with the spare tire. No serious harm done with the beetle, except she needs brand new tire :) So that wasn't so short after all..

We made it to the second half of the concert - Franck: Symphony in D minor. This time we were so lucky with the (student) tickets cuz we got seats on the main orchestra area (ground floor). Compared to 6th floor last time, this was really neat ;) Again, I think dress circle is still best. The conductor, Philippe Jordan, was pretty young.. and also good looking! eiei.. And he was really 'in' to the music that at one point he actually jumped. First time ever to see a conductor jump.. really.

Anywho, the road back from CSO we were super careful watching out for all those 'holes' out there.. can't believe the road surface is so bad.. and I thought Bangkok is bad already.. We should file complaints! Actually while the service guy was changing the tire, a police officer stopped to have a look. He asked who was driving, jokingly.. so I said it wasn't our fault but those big holes' He was like, well.. you didn't have to drive over them, did you? errrr.. alright officer, we hear ya! :P

The rest of the night was good time.. late night supper, conversations, and even some sing-alongs.. I wouldn't have left had it not been because of my early morning meeting today and a fully-booked Sunday schedule. I'd rather not come back to the lonely apartment of mine so soon.. just trying to keep me from spending too much time with myself..