I was looking forward to our candlelight scrabble night. Eric is usually so busy with the mountain load of work he has to do and I’m just as overloaded with my duties that we don’t have those nights as often as we used to.
We watched the Eiffel Tower lights being turned off and then made sure we had all of our lights off for Earth Hour Saturday night. We were enjoying our scrabble game so much that we continued to play by candlelight until the game ended at midnight. We were just about to get ready for bed when we heard sirens.
The view out our window Saturday NIght.
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The first police car pulled up in front of the bank, so we thought the bank had been robbed again. Then a second police car pulled up at an angle across our street, blocking our driveway. The lights were flashing right outside our window. Eight fire engines responded, including the Naval Base. Densmore Oil was on fire.
Mystic Ladder Truck in front of the bookstore giving access to Densmore’s roof.
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
We initially couldn’t tell if it was the apartments above Main St., Bank Square Books, or Densmore. We also didn’t know how bad it was or if it was spreading our way. The firefighters worked fast and kept it contained to the one building, but we watched and waited to be sure it was safe to go to sleep, which wasn’t until 2 a.m.
Pump Truck and firefighters from three departments at the rear of the building clearing debris after successfully fighting the fire.
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Sunday we went to Connecticut College to see our friend Lauren perform in concert. She is a member of the Connecticut College Orchestra and plays the string bass. They gave a few family concerts as practice for their final concert coming up in May. We weren’t able to go to the previous ones, but made sure not to miss this last one. At one point during the concert they allowed people from the audience to walk in between the musicians while they were playing. Feeling the music like that was incredible and gives a whole new meaning to the term “surround sound”.
The movie “A Night at the Museum” has been recommended to us twice and we finally remembered to check it out from Netflix. We watched the first half before the concert and the rest when we got home. We had a hard time tearing ourselves away at one of the most intense moments of the movie. Eric was laughing, because I was just excited about it as he was the first time he saw it.
We all got into the movie, but Johann enjoyed it so much, he can’t get enough of it. Now he has plans to create his own wax figure museum. He’s working on a list of all the people from history that he wants to put in his museum. So many ideas, so little time! And here we thought we’d have a nice quiet weekend to catch up on things. What were we thinking?!
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