Feeling Christmassy.

And here we are back at the Seattle Center yet again. I feel like I've had a lot of pictures of the Seattle Center on my blog and facebook recently. It's just the place to be I guess. In fact, Steven and I are headed back there next Saturday for some swing dancing at the Center House. I can't wait! We haven't gone dancing in so long because it's so late at night at Century Ballroom and our drive home is just too long.

We went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert last Saturday. We've been waiting for this for SO long!!! It was an incredible concert. We were seriously impressed.

They started the concert with a song where these three musicians were lowered from the ceiling on those platforms and they played the whole song swinging up there like that. They had crazy lights and lasers and even some pyrotechnics thrown in here and there. It was a holiday concert so they played lots of Christmas songs and there was a guy narrating a Christmas story in between the different songs. They had a full strings section, two people on keyboards, loads of people on guitars, a few on vocals, and one on a fiddle. Everything was loud and bright and exciting. It was quite the rock concert, which is rather new to us, and all of the sudden we found ourselves wishing we had been able to see Queen in concert at some point in our lives. How awesome would that be?? (very)

A little boy was sitting in the row behind us and he kept tapping us on the shoulders and getting really close to Steven's face and just being silly. It was really funny for a little while but after a bit... we were pretty much over it. I was kind of glad that they didn't stay the whole time.

TSO played some really awesome songs like Sarajevo 12/24, which is one of my personal favs, and a bunch more that I wish I knew the names of so I could download them. We recognized quite a few of them as traditional Christmas songs but they seemed to have a lot of different stuff as well.

After about an hour and a half, we thought the concert was over. The narrator had just reached the end of his story and wished us all a Merry Christmas and they had brought up the lights and introduced some of the performers. Then the guy said "Now's the part of the show where you can really go crazy!" and they started the non-Christmas part of the concert and lowered those long floating sidewalk type things. About an hour after that, one of the guys got on the mic and said "before we get to far into this..." we were thinking oh my gosh! how long is this concert going to last? It just kept going! There were only a couple of songs after that but the whole concert was 3 hours long!! We loved it. You definitely get your money's worth with these guys. I'm thinking maybe we should make it an annual date.

I guess I've been feeling Christmassy for a little while now but that concert last night really got me in the holiday spirit. I can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week! I love Thanksgiving and I'm definitely going to enjoy it as it's own holiday separate from Christmas but I'll admit that I'm excited for the day after when I can get out the few decorations that I have and start playing Christmas music and drink eggnog lattes and peppermint mochas and eat candy canes and buy a box of satsumas and go Christmas shopping and all sorts of lovely fun Christmassy things. We might even get some snow this weekend! I don't know if you can tell in that picture above but the snow level has been slowly creeping down the hills towards Enumclaw all week long. It get's colder by the day and the snow just keeps getting closer and closer. Early next week they're predicting just above freezing temperatures during the days and temperatures in the 20's at night. Yikes! Where's my electric blanket???