Thanksgiving, opera-watching

D's parents, who are awesome, came the week before Thanksgiving, and we all enjoyed having them here. There was quite a lot of confusion as to what exactly was going to happen with Thanksgiving, given the smoke and fires and shifting of where-people-actually-were, but just about the time we had settled on spending the holiday weekend with K/B/D, we had to change plans again to staying home when Kid #1 was sick and then kid #2 was sick with something that laid them out with erratic but sometimes quite high temperatures for days on end. (E was miserable; A was surprisingly mostly happy except when his temperature spiked above 103, which it did appallingly often for several days.) Today is the first day in a week that we have not had a child with an alarmingly high temperature in the house. I was grumpy about missing K/B/D (I'm still grumpy about that, for that matter), but aside from that it was... actually... a really restful Thanksgiving, and we are thinking maybe we should have holidays at home more often.

Also (you knew this was coming) it meant I got to watch some opera, which I hadn't had time for in a while :D

( Les Pecheurs de Perles Teatro La Fenice 2005 , Macbeth ROH 2011 )

Next opera post(s), I promise, will be about Les Huguenots and the Chatelet Don Carlos :) (...speaking of which, shoutout to justplainsavannahd: I saw your tumblr was gone; are you okay?)