life's funny turns

I just finished one of the more interesting evenings I've had in a long time.

Last week, after out Monday night drawing group; Bob, Don and I went out for a drink at Avogadro's Number. ["Avo's" in Ft. Collins speak] Bob is 20-30 years my senior and Don is probably 30-40 years my senior. Both are very interesting gentlemen. Don taught art at Notre Dame for 30+ years and Bob has lived all over the world and know all sorts of interesting people. Both have interesting stories and insights to offer.

Tonight we drew a young woman who was 8 months pregnant. She is an artist herself and did a great job as a model. Interesting item number one for the evening.

Instead of going to Avo's, we went to a new [to me] place called "Monet's." Bob knew the woman who owned Monet's, Janine. Janine is a very nice woman to talk with and we all had a nice time chatting throughout the evening. There were a couple of other folks at the bar. Brian was playing the piano and singing [amazingly well] Beatles' songs, and all manner of other very nice tunes that I have heard somewhere before in life but do not know well enough to name. Brian is blind [interesting item number 2.]

Brian's wife [I assume, although she may have been a girlfriend] is Meadow, who is 8 months pregnant, was also there supporting Brian and engaging in pleasant conversation. When we showed Janine some of our drawings for the evening, Meadow immediately piped up "Oh is that Amanda?" which it was... which was interesting item number 3.

At some point Bob [who spent some time overseas in a Spanish-speaking country of some sort] said something in Spanish. Without thinking I responded in Spanish, which lead to a lengthy non-English conversation about Church and out spiritual lives. I have not spoken a word of Spanish in nearly a decade. Interesting item number 4.

There were some additional items in the evening which were also interesting, but to repeat them would only serve to diminish the interesting-ness of the evening.

I call this post "life's funny turns" because who would have put me in a bar on a Monday night in February with a couple of artists speaking Spanish and listening to Beatles' tunes performed by a very talented non-sighted musician after having drawn a woman who was 8 months pregnant?