The Four Freshmen - Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009

Before we moved to Oregon, DeeDee worked for International Ventures Incorporated, a musical celebrity management company, located in Valencia.   One of IVI's clients is The Four Freshmen (click for link).      We had attended several of their concerts in the past before DeeDee "retired" from IVI.    We learned that the Freshmen were scheduled to perform at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR on Feb 11th.   DeeDee was excited to go, not only to see the Freshmen perform again, but to renew acquaintenaces with them, as she had worked closely with them at IVI over the past years.    After leaving Salem, where we had stopped earlier in the day, we arrived at UCC (Umpqua Com. College) around 3 PM.   Hanna was excited about being able to wander around on a real college campus. The campus is not too large, so we were able to see most all of the buildings and grounds.    The Umpqua River is just off to one side, which I was able to capture in a few photos.   The campus is very new and is really beautiful.   As we wandered around, when Hanna would find an empty classroom with the lights on, she would try the door, and if it opened, she went in and looked around.   In one such room Hanna corrected a wrong answer to an algebra problem on the blackboard; in another room, she wrote out a math problem; and in yet another room or two, she just sat at a desk looking around.   As we walked around, we enjoyed some more of the Oregon State Weather - RAIN.

We left the campus around 5 to go into Roseburg for dinner.    We stopped at IHOP, another first for Hanna.    She had a real problem deciding on what to order, since it all looked so good, but finally settled on bacon, scrambled eggs, and hash brown potatoes, with all-you-can-eat pancakes - she managed to put away two plates of three pancakes each along with the rest of her meal.

Back at the campus after dinner, since we still had time before the concert, we went to the campus library, where Hanna did some calculus homework, looking like any other student there.   When the auditorium finally opened, we went to the concert.    The jazz that the Freshmen play is not really my favorite type of music, but I did enjoy seeing the guys again and found that I liked more of their music this time than at past performances.    Hanna is not into the Freshmen type of jazz at all, but overall I know she enjoyed the experience, going to her first live music concert, and going back-stage to meet with and talk with the Freshmen.   Then the long 3 1/4 hour ride home (we got home at 1:30 AM), all the time dreading the fact that Hanna had to be at school for Driver's Ed at 7 AM in just a few hours.     (And yes, Hanna made it to school on time at 7).