This past Friday, September 11, was Steven’s 29th birthday. To celebrate, we met some friends at Buca di Beppo at Universal City Walk for dinner and I baked a cake.

We had a great time and appreciated the people that came to spend time with us. My present for Steven was a little glass dome display for the Roman coin we purchased in Vienna. (above)

The night before it turned out that I played with the LA Phil again for their last concert of the Hollywood Bowl season. I was pulled in last minute to play 2nd english horn on the Berlioz Requiem, which was mind-blowing with its off-stage brass and 4 timpani players. I was thrilled to help out and feel very blessed by all the playing opportunities the summer offered.

Today after church we went to a dark scifi type store in Burbank to see our friend Nicole, a bassoon player from the Vienna trip who was signing a new Halloween CD. While we were there we also were thrilled to meet and have a CD signed by Bear McCreary, the composer of Battlestar Galactica!

So say we all!