Piano Duets

The kids went to the Minnesota Music Teachers Association Duet Festival.  Here Dan and his friend Luke do a duet called Cap'n Hook

Becky and Andy perform Ode to Joy

Now that Halloween is finally behind us (the two months of the year where the separation of Church and State is forgotten in a kind of state-enforced Sesame Street Wican festival) we can get on with a 'proper' autumn festival, Guy Fawkes Night.  Celebrating the moment a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament was foiled this is traditionally celebrated in England by blowing other things up instead.

The children's rhyme goes:

Remember, remember the 5th of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot
We see no reason
Why gunpowder season
Should ever be Forgot

However, don't be tempted to teach your kids too much about it in case they end up finding out what became of the unfortunate miscreants and you have to explain what hung drawn and quartering means.

Nipping back to early October and the spectacular colours, Dad and Sarah visited at pretty much the perfect time for some leaf spotting.

 Off for a walk around Minneapolis

 Random Stranger