Christmas Weekend part 4: The Day Before Christmas

Every year, Kevin's mom performs with the Choral Arts Society of DC in the Kennedy Center. The first year I got to attend this, I was really excited to get to see anything at all at the The Kennedy Center. Although some of that initial excitement has worn off in the past few years, I still love attending concerts there.

The concert is always sponsored by a different ambassador and the director includes some carols from that ambassador's country in the program. In the past two years these countries were Belgium and Russia, which exposed me to Christmas music I'd never heard before. This year the chosen country was Canada, which didn't seem that novel at first. But since the new director chose a lot of modern music, there ended up being a few new songs. One of them was actually premiered at this concert, which was interesting.

There was also an incredibly strange song called Epitaph for Moonlight that I'm still undecided about. Parts of it were enjoyable and other parts were downright weird. Although I'm not sure what else I expected from a song that was apparently inspired by a 7th grade class's made up synonyms for "moonlight".

After the concert, we went to dinner at the house of some of Kevin's family friends. We had ham this delicious cranberry-sparkling wine. Then we played Cards Against Humanity and had to explain concepts like road head to the older generation. Slightly awkward, but still a lot of fun.

My brother spent most of the evening with an 8-week-old boxer puppy chewing on his hand. He seemed pretty content to let him, even if he was covered with scratches by the time we got home.