December 6, 2005 at 3:48 AM

A few very interesting things happened today. The highlights are:

--I got to ride in a limo
--I got to walk on see-through stairs with waterfalls under them
--I got to eat chicken and rice with my hands

My string quartet got its first real gig, at this nightclub/restaurant. It was a benefit dinner for this hospital that's being built, or something. We only played for half an hour, and our half of the quartet was about 15 minutes late due to ever-faulty directions from Map Quest.

The restaurant, called Chart House, is built over the Delaware river where they keep the boats, so there were mini waterfalls running all over inside (and it had a rather fishy smell as well, but one got used to that).

We played various gig music, some sight-read and for the first time. I'm sure no one noticed (thought as my friend, the cellist pointed out) "These people will know! They're smart! They're doctors!"

But we had a really fun time playing, and then came the exciting part; the LIMO! For some unknown reason, we were going to be driven home in a white stretch limo provided by the Chart House. None of us had ever been inside of one, and we were very eager to see what it was like. The front part looks like a taxi cab, with the plastic divider that you can roll up and down. Then there are two rows of seats facing each other, and on the other sides there's a TV with a VCR (which we did turn on so we could say that we had watched TV in a limo) and on the other side was a cooler with water bottles. And there were lights everywhere that you could turn and off.

We dropped off the twins first, then during the drive to our house, my sister said, "You know when you see a limo and you wonder who's in it, and you think it's like a celebrity? Well, we should wave to people so they'll be like, hey a celebrity is waving to us!"

Also, we were provided with dinner by the place, but they forgot to give us forks, and we were really hungry so we ate chicken and rice without forks!

--alice

From putch panis
Posted on December 6, 2005 at 7:27 AM

I've always wondered why the limo doesn't come with a bathroom, for such an expensive car I mean.

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