Dave's birthday was November 15 (Happy Birthday also to Erin, Dick/Opa, and Cara!), and he wanted to go hiking. So we went back to Government Canyon and spent the morning outdoors. Katie's turning into quite the hiker - she walked about a mile, almost half of the trail. Here are the birthday boy and the newest hiker resting partway up.
Of course we went to the brewpub, the Dodging Duck, for dinner. Our friends Keith and Lori joined us, and then came back to the apartment for birthday cake.
And Sunday was the Peter and the Wolf concert! The San Antonio Symphony does a fabulous job with their interactive family concerts. There was an "instrument petting zoo" (kids actually get to try out instruments with members of the symphony), crafts, and conducting workshops with Ken-David Masur, the conductor (he's Kurt Masur's son, for anyone who knows who that is). All before the concert, which featured an "ask the maestro" segment, a chance for one lucky kid to conduct the orchestra briefly, and captions for sections of each piece projected onto the back wall. The place was packed, and kids -- including Katie -- really had a good time. And now she has a conductor's baton!
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