Dinner & a Concert

I originally sent this on Saturday night from Vienna, but it got "stuck" somewhere (it looks like my mail host's "outbound mail proxy" was jealously hoarding it & refused to let it go) & finally bounced back to me today. The Google mail servers (Blogger is owned by Google) have given me the oh-so-helpful details:

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So, I'm trying again....

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Subject: Dinner & a Concert
From: "Michele Sharik - mobile" <michele@thegoldendance.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:23:11 -0700
To: Michele@thegoldendance.com
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Here's me & Brian, all dressed up & spending our last night in Europe attending a "Dinner & Concert" event in Wien (that's "Vienna" for us English-speakers).

The dinner was at Bitzinger Augustina Keller am Albertinaplatz. We had Weiner schnitzel and Apfel strüdel (of course!) and a nice glass of wine.

The concert is at the Wiener Staatoper and is all-Mozart by the Wiener Mozart Orchester.

I'll post the program later....

-Michèle (from my mobile phone)

Michèle in Vienna

Here I am in Vienna - yes, in Austria! - by the Mozart Memorial statue. (I am wearing a shirt with the sheet music to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik").

I know I haven't blogged in practically *forever*, but I have been very busy with touring & family reunions & now vacation. However, Brian & I fly home tomorrow (Aug 24) and while we've had a great time in Europe, we are both ready to come home.

I, of course, have a LOT of stuff to blog about, including some pretty exciting news (for me). That will all have to wait until I get home & get my laptop working again - it decided to misbehave just before we left for Europe, so I left it at home.

Brian has some really great pictures that I will link to, as well as "steal" to post here when appropriate.

Meanwhile, Brian & I are having lunch next-door to a Mozart Haus, the one in which he wrote "The Marriage of Figaro".

-Michèle (from my mobile phone)