So it was more like a Taser than a gun, but we did have fun with it at Crate & Barrel this weekend as we started setting up our registry. We had a productive weekend, starting with the great save-the-date mailout on Saturday morning (as Aimee said, thank goodness for self-adhesive stamps).



We started adding items to our registry after my Saturday run, and made some fateful decisions about dishes and silverware, which in the end isn’t I guess all that fateful, but I hope we still like it in a year when we’ll be eating off it every night. I think we will.



I didn’t have the stamina to make it to Macy’s as well, but we did make it to Delux Cafe in the South End, home of Elvis kitsch and a great grilled cheese sandwich (and also apparently restaurant #1 according to the Boston.com link).

On Sunday night, we enjoyed a terrific concert to kick of the Celebrity Series at Symphony Hall, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Dianne Reeves. The first half of the too-short concert featured the orchestra performing original compositions as well as some Ellington numbers. Reeves came out for the second half, and was amazing. I’ve been stuck in Ella / Sarah / Billie mode forever, and it was refreshing to hear someone live with such gifts, tonally, improvisationally, and every other which way. She performed two of my favorite songs, “Lullabye of Birdland” and “Skylark,” to begin her set, and displayed an amazing, rich range. Listening to Reeves and Marsalis call and respond on “You Go to My Head” was a real pleasure.

And what better way to end the evening than admiring the fruit architecture at Whole Foods? And no, I don’t have a permit to take that photo. Sorry.