Spontaneous Symphony Stop

Tonight Douglas came home with a fun idea.  It's the Three Rivers Arts Fest in Pittsburgh which means 10 days of free music at art at Point State Park.  Tonight the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to play.  Doug figured that since the rain held off we should go for the beginning part of the show.  After how much fun it was to spontaneously go to the air show with the boys, I figured this would be a similar positive experience.  And it was!  We had to keep the boys up a little later than usual, but it was worth it.  We had a nice family dinner and then loaded up the minivan around 6:15pm.  We were parked by 6:30pm (gotta love living minutes from The Point).  This gave us a few minutes to explore before the concert started at 7pm.  We headed straight to the fountain.  Penn seems to be saying, "hey, wait for me!"

See Koen and Tavin running ahead to the far right.

Penn didn't do a very good job catching up because he is so easily distracted by the fun of nearly everything around him be it dogs, pathways, trees, airplanes, helicopters, etc.  See, right here he's pointing out one of his stop-worthy spottings.

Finally all 3 made it to the fountain!  

A nice lady saw us making the boys pose and offered to take a family photo.  Not too bad!

Before heading back to get a seat for the concert, the big boys got to run around the fountain (see far right).

The symphony about to start!!

My somewhat enraptured crew. =)

So the last song we stayed for was Horns, Hounds and Guns or something like that.  I forget the author of the piece, but it was really written for dogs to be a part of (and gunshots, but they skipped that and just simulated it with instruments).  Obviously, this was the boys favorite piece.

A video for you to understand how the dogs contributed (notice they wave a yellow "Terrible Towel" to get the dogs barking on cue...even the classy Symphony is Steeler proud).

Right after the hounds piece, it was definitely time to head home.  But, good job Daddy, because this was a fun family night that I'm so glad we took advantage of!