This morning we went to St. Paul to listen to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra perform a family concert in the Ordway. The theme was "The Four Seasons--Unleashed!" and featured excerpts from Vivaldi's original "Four Seasons" pieces along with a more modern version done in the 1970s by an Argentinian composer. The concert was designed for kids, so there were actors and lots of props to correspond with the seasons, and the kids laughed when the flowers danced during the "Spring" sections, and snow fell in heaps on the "composers" during the "Winter" parts. The best part, though, was when we stopped for bagels at Brueggers on the way back to the parking ramp.
Since we always seem to take pictures in Rice Park when we're in St. Paul, we decided to change it up a bit and had the kids pose in front of Landmark Center.
After some shopping, Karl came home and immediately set off for the highlight of the day: fishing with Opa! They were extra lucky and caught several fish in short order--and Karl even got to take a couple home for dinner!
Karl even helped clean the fish, and he talked Oma into frying them up. Since neither Matt nor I will eat seafood of any kind, Karl has never had fish (When Laura was very little I used to buy fish and cook it just for her to eat because I thought it was good for her, but that habit did not last long, and since Karl is a second child, he never got that kind of special treatment...)
Just looking at this picture makes me ill.
Karl ate some of his fish, and decided he didn't like it very much. Good man. I can stomach making tacos for dinner, but I don't think I could handle demands for fish on a regular basis!
I'd say Karl's fishing trip was quite the success, even if eating what you catch isn't all that great. I think he's got a lot more fishing in his future. The next thing you know, he'll be learning to tie flies...
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