The week before Christmas is always a busy and challenging one for all of us. It was particularly so for me this season having just recovered from knee surgery, a wedding reception and trying to get Christmas shopping done! Working around the crutches proved much more difficult than I ever imagined, but I was fortunate enough to get to walk free of them the Monday before Christmas!
Steve and I had gotten tickets to see Garth Brooks in Nashville as he worked to raise funds for the flood relief there. Trisha Yearwood, his wife, joined him for a few songs. I think if she had not shown up, he would likely have asked me to join him on stage. I got to meet him several years ago at Southside and had my photo made with him. If I can find that later (running a search on my old laptop) I will add it to this post. It's been a long standing joke between Steve and I that he would let me leave him for Garth if I would just mail him a check every now and then. Funny.
I should explain this next photo....when we went outside at my parent's home (in the country) to leave for dinner, there was an opossum in the carport. And yes, he played "possum" in hopes that we just wouldn't see him. I can't say that I've ever seen one of these things alive so close!
My Dad loves to put up Christmas lights outdoors. It's really a funny thing too because he doesn't even care if they put up a tree indoors or not. But--those outdoor lights will go up! He's 85 and still gets them out there every year stringing around those blasted pine trees that I grew up mowing around. He also lines the front of the house with lights. Very pretty!
A quick photo of Mom and Dad at Mike's Steakhouse. Yummy food and a good visit too!
Stanley Bennett lived about a mile from our home when I was growing up. His younger sister was just about my best friend when I was young. He worked on the farm for my Dad for what seemed to be forever to me, but apparently it was just for a short time! We both have changed a bit since then, I think.
We left on Tuesday afternoon and traveled to Wynne to spend the night with my parents, go out for steak and see some old friends. It was great.
We had reservations close to the Arena near Vanderbilt University at a Holiday Inn. It was very nice and offered a free shuttle to and from the concert. The problem was that most of the folks staying there seemed to be going where we were that night! We had delicious Italian food at Amerigo's Restaurant and as we left there, I turned down a one way street the wrong way. Oh well.
I had something really smashing to wear, but it was cold as blazes so we both went for warmth and were very glad that we did!
Nine straight days of two concerts each night. Packed every night. Not sure how he did it!
The problem was that as the first concert full of 18,500 people were trying to leave from the 6pm show, that SAME amount of folks were trying to go in! Talk about a near-riot situation!!!
We returned home on Wednesday night to find that Greg had indeed kept Koko and Zoie alive....even though I think he really wanted to open the door and let Zoie just leave..haha. Steve shopped for groceries the next day while I went into full gift wrapping mode, while watching Christmas movies. Fun!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment