Light Up Night 2013

After last year's success, I wasn't about to let another light up night go by without doing anything about it.

Unfortunately, BF wasn't in the equation this year.  The good news is that KR was.  I'd like to say there was a dramatic build up this year to the invitation.  There wasn't.  I basically just joined her group of friends.

With the group of friends, we had a good time.  We did occasionally lose people, and then gain others, and then lose others, and gain others, but that was half the fun.  S was beautiful.  The rain/sleet turned into snow just in time, and the atmosphere was quite nice.  It was how Light-up Night should be.  There weren't too many people there, and you could still keep a conversation going without any obnoxious bands playing in the background.  I even saw the ice sculptor for the first time in years (he may have been there before, but he was noticed this time).  It was a great time.

Eventually, it got late though.  And KR couldn't go home, because both of her parents were out.  So she came over to our house for a while.  And this is where the real fun came.

We started off just talking.  Then V started playing her flute, and we went over to the piano to play the piano-flute duets we were working on.  Then KR, A, V, and I started to play/sing Christmas Carols around the piano.  Then Mr. R arrived.  My parents invited him in, and we kept going.  I played the Chopin Polonaise that I had been working on.  Then we sang songs from Les Misérables (KR's specialty), and Phantom of the Opera (A's specialty).  Eventually, we had to wrap it up, due to the fact that it was getting late, but we had had a great time already.

It's times like these that are special, yet it's times like these that often go unnoticed.  You remember the big performance someone put on, yet you often forget the time that someone said something to you that touched you.  I guess that's what made this Light Up Night so special.  It was personal.

-NM