A Busy Weekend

Joe & Kathleen Mayes, friends of mine from the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society, were performing in Melbourne Friday night. We left Port St. Lucie at 3 pm to drive up to Melbourne and have dinner. We ate at a nice little restaurant, Ichabod's Dockside.  After dinner we had time to walk around and look at the boats. There was one from Hawaii and one from Grand Cayman. Then we found a park bench where John could read his book and I played my charango until it was time for the concert. The concert was really good and it was good to talk to Joe and Kathleen afterwards. I got some pointers from Kathleen on how to get a restaurant gig.

On Saturday, we planted the plants we bought last weekend at the plant sale and then we went to the beach in Stuart for a little while.  Sunday morning, I decided to try a new church. I wasn't fitting in very well in the music ministry at the Catholic church closest to our home. The opening song began and I could hear an acoustic guitar fingerpicking with the piano. I immediately felt like here was where I belonged. After mass I asked if they would be open to having another guitar join them and the answer was, "Are you crazy? Of course we would be happy to have another guitar."  I think John will like this church too, but so far he is not happy about changing parishes when he was just getting to know people in the other church closer to our home.


After church we went to the Renaissance Faire in Deerfield Beach. We had a real nice time and heard some nice Renaissance music. I hope to play there next year. I bought a CD, a walking stick, and a Renaissance dress!  Then we went to Marie's  house for dinner and she cooked us lamb chops on her grill. Her house is full of boxes because she is buying a house and moving to Port St.  Lucie. Hallie & Aiden were happy to see us. It will be nice when they live closer.