Date Night - Journey

John and I went on an extremely rare date night!  I got us tickets to see Journey and the Doobie Bros!  I've been so excited!!  I love, love, love Journey!
We had a fun time, but the concert did not live up to my hopes.  They sounded okay, the new lead singer is good, but I found it very disconcerting to be listening to Journey, but when you look at the band, there's a skinny Asian guy jumping around the stage.  Weird, just weird.  Plus, it really ended up being more like the Neil Schon show.  The sound was cranked to that mainly it was the electric guitar show and it was hard to hear the voices.  Plus the guitar, piano and drum solos just went on for freaking ever.  Maybe that's a sign that I'm getting too old.

I did get to see my Bow Bestie - Jay was there with her new "man friend," so I got to scope him out briefly.

Everything's bigger at concerts... beer and margarita's... they better be since they cost $15 freaking dollars!!!  Add some Buffalo Chicken Tots and what's not to be happy about!

We are soooo cool! At least in our own minds...

John and I headed out for our first date night in forever!

Yes - it's true... Tesla, Styx and Def Leppard!!  Woot! Woot!  It was a lot of fun!  We missed most of Tesla, because of stupid traffic, but Styx and Def Leppard were great!   We were laughing because as we looked around, the crowd was old! :o)  But then, we're old too!!   There were a few younger kids, I wonder if they were there because mom and dad brought them or if they actually knew who the bands were? :o)

Party toes and Big beer!

An enormous $7.00 rice krispy treat!

A fun night getting our rock on!

I CAN do something not related to rowing!

We actually had a weekend where I did almost nothing rowing related (except for practice Saturday morning).   Here is my "non-rowing" life in pictures.  Doesn't happen very often!

Bobby's Burger Palace... Fried Egg Burger - SOOOO Good!

Popcorn and the movie Tomorrowland - with my 2 favorite boys!  It was okay, not great, but fun.

Finally going to take care of our yard, so it looks like our house has someone living there instead of an abandoned crack house!

Beautiful Bounty!

John finally pulled out the last holdover bush, that I have hated since we moved into the house...8 years!  Blank canvas...

After - lots of lavender and pretty plants.

The old dead mum plants are finally gone!

Such a nice weekend with my boys.  The house looks great and we all got a much deserved break from all things rowing. 

Date Night, Paint Night

John and I did a Date Night this weekend.  I found a Groupon Coupon for Paint Night.  You go to a restaurant and have dinner and paint a picture.  They have an artist instructor come in and walk you through the painting.  It was a ton of fun.  What I found so interesting, is I went straight by the rules, but John did his own thing and totally strayed from the instructions and I LOVE his!  His is the angry, stormy, pointy picture and mine is all soft and flowey, but they are both cool.  Here's the night in pictures:

I thought it would be fun to hang the pictures up together in our room!  I love them both.  Date night, Paint Night was Fun Night!