As most of my five readers know, concert date nights are my absolute FAVORITE! Bobby and I had heard that Rascal Flatts was touring with Little Big Town (whom I LOVE!) but we were going to turn it down because we had just been to my bestie Carrie Underwood's show. But, my man who loves me so had a little downtime at work and happened upon an amazing deal for tickets....and really good ones at that. Who could turn it down??
We called up our great friends Mike and Amanda and arranged a long overdue double date night. I never fail to laugh until my sides hurt with these two so I was really looking forward to it and as usual, I was still laughing the next morning at Mike and his antics:)
The concert started out with the Eli Young Band and I took this opportunity to use the "panorama" setting on my iphone. While it worked fairly well I was still aggravated that I didn't have my real camera with me. I'm taking it in next concert. It seems that the whole "no professional cameras" debacle that Barney Fife put me through with Keith Urban was just a fluke since there were plenty of nice cameras floating around at the last two concerts. Anyway, I think I knew one or two songs from Eli. They were good.
Up next was LBT. I'm really glad they've won some awards this year because they are totally deserving. I sang along with several of their songs and I'm sure Amanda was feeling a bit self conscious because my voice is somewhat superior to hers. Some folks have it. And I'm one of them. in my dreams.
LBT didn't disappoint. I'll be back to see them again. With my good camera.
Bring on the Flatts! This is the second time that Bobby and I have been to see Rascal Flatts. While I feel that all the Rascals are great singers, Joe Don, despite his name, has for the most part been my favorite. That being said, I will be the first one to openly admit that Joe needs to cool it with the sleeveless shirts. Or, he needs to do some curls and get a spray tan. His guitar skills make up for most of that but, hey, I'm just here to keep it real and give advice to famous people that obviously don't need any help from a stay at home mom nobody.
Ol' Gary LeVox about got a beat down when he walked to our edge of the stage shortly after this picture and gave Amanda a straight up point out. If Bobby hadn't been there to hold Mike back.........
They had a little portion of the concert where you could yell out what you wanted them to sing. It was pretty fun but I really didn't have anything to yell out because for some strange reason I could not recall a single song that Rascal Flatts sings......and here I was, 3 rows back from the stage at their concert. I tell you, I've lost most of the capacity of my brain since having kids. I think the thing I'm best at at this point in my life is cutting construction paper.
Despite the fact that I couldn't remember the names of any songs, I DID remember the words to Life is a Highway (mostly because it was in the movie Cars) and I sang it like I was a contestant on The Voice. The one contestant that no one turns their chair around for.
Did I mention that going to this concert made the four of us bonafide stars? We're totally on the hit tv series "Nashville". The director was there filming concert scenes and for several takes we had to scream like crazy and act like we were at a concert (which wasn't hard to do since we were, in fact, at a concert). Most people were the standard concert hands, you know, heart hands, longhorns, l love yous.....not us. We were just doing a single pinkie. Yep. One.single.pinkie. So when you're watching the show and you see a pinkie in the crowd, it's me. And Mike. And Bobby and Amanda. It's hard being famous so no autographs please.
Last concert date night of 2012 in the books. One of the best ones yet with two of our favorite people!!
