Remember when I tricked Kelsey into thinking that we didn't get Adele tickets because she found out that I got us Adele tickets? Well, a few weeks ago we finally got the chance to see her. Even though it's October, Adele asked the crowd how many people were there because of a Christmas gift. Everyone raised their hands except for Kelsey, because it had been so long that she forgot why we had tickets.
I'm not normally a concert person, but Adele had a way of making the entire Verizon Center feel like a small venue. She is either a very genuine person or an incredible actor, and I'm inclined to think she is just genuine. Also, she is just as good of a singer in person as she is on any recording.
Obligatory crummy ten second clip taken on a cell phone that doesn't fully communicate the experience.
If given the opportunity, though, go see Adele in concert. And also Hamilton. I do enjoy recommending things that are not already wildly popular and impossible to get tickets to, but this really hasn't been a representative year for that. Sorry.
For some reason, Kelsey and I were still feeling a little sick from our Williamsburg trip, so after Adele we bought ourselves some provisions.
Dessert, ginger ale, and carrot juice. We've gotten into carrot juice lately. The green one is "organic." They tasted the same.
That weekend we went to a coworker's wedding and also went to The Brig with Alex and Kelly.
We like The Brig because they have many different kinds of glasses.
This past weekend we went down to Charlottesville to visit Brian and Kay and Oliver James Paljug. We were very excited to meet Oliver for the first time.
Kelsey was the most excited, of course.
He was very good when we went out apple picking. Since it was late in the apple picking season, the picking was more like hitting apples in high branches with a metal pole until they fell down. In retrospect, that's probably more fun than actual apple picking. I also got some apple cider slushie.
Cider tasting!
Kay and Mike picking apples with a stick.
Also this past week we received a wedding present from Daisy, my grandmother's friend from China who became my friend from China when I met her back in 2008 while I was there studying abroad. It took so long to get to us because the original was lost in the mail, but it is a beautiful traditional paper cutting.
Demonstrated here by Kelsey
Tomorrow we run our first ever marathon. And then we eat and sleep.
