The best recital ever

Last night, Rich and I were all set to go to a violin, viola, and piano faculty recital at the colleges. We arrived 10 or so minutes before it was scheduled to start and were shocked to find a line of college students about 20 people long.

"Wow," I commented to Rich. "I can't believe there are this many students at a classical music event. This must be, like, the best recital EVER."

We stood in line with the students, even more shocked to see guards with wands scanning each person who went inside.

"Man, they really take the no recording thing seriously here!" Richard joked.

The girl in front of us was wearing Party Rock glasses, and had a tattoo (fake, I think) that read, "Sorry for Party Rockin'!"

We made it through the metal detecting guards who asked us if we had any cigarettes in our pockets to the doors where they asked for our tickets.

"Tickets! We thought this was a free event."

We trouped over to the ticket booth where they told us the concert cost $30 per person. "For a faculty recital!" Richard scoffed. "You've got to be kidding me."

Turns out, there are TWO buildings called "Bridges"- one at Pomona College and one at Scripps College. And we were not, in fact, standing in line for the most rockin' faculty recital of our lives, but for a concert for a group called LMFAO. I'll give you a minute to go find them on YouTube.

We made it over to Bridges Hall, where we were greeted by a grad student handing out programs and a much grayer audience. There was no shuffling at the recital, but it was pretty awesome, nonetheless.

Edited to add: After reading this, Richard has kindly asked me to inform you all that BOTH Bridges are at Pomona College, not a Scripps College. When I asked him if that really mattered, he replied, "Well, yeah!" So all you fact checkers out there can breathe a bit easier now.