CMA FEST

Our first day at Fan Fair was long, but fun!
The weather predicted a bad thunderstorm, and sure enough a big one hit just as we got to the LP Parking field. We waited it out and the rest of the daytime was sunny and warm.
We picked up our materials, did a quick tour of the Convention Center, hustled down to Riverfront Park to watch a parade of stars (Phil Vassar, Heidi, Diamond Rio, and more). We sat by some new friends from Australia- Darren, Joan, and Brett. They do a lot of traveling! (Brett's a golf pro at a club near Syndney.)
We tried to find Heartland, but they were moved from the Hard Rock Stage to Chevy and we never found them.
En route we bumped into Lee Roy (from the Roys) whom we'd met in Myrtle Beach at the Beachwagon. They are playing here today and Saturday too.
We walked across the bridge to the LP Stadium, ate and relaxed in the car (all the venues had an hour wait to eat!) and then went in.
Our seats were good and Brooks and Dunn put on a great show...including soldiers during their "Only in America" finale. Reba had a cameo with them in "Cowgirls Don't Cry".
Reba was next and doing a great show when the emcee came out after song three and said dangerous weather was coming and they'd let us know when to come back in, but we had to leave our seats. Two hours later (who even thought it would happen?) they let us back in (a lot of folks left before the heavy rains came...following an hour of lightning).
Darius Rucker was awesome, Dierks Bently, too, and Brad Paisley was ready to sing all night!
We got home around 2:40 a.m. (Central zone time!) and now we're heading out for Day 2.

The Trek to Nashville Saga

We left at about 3 a.m. and it's now 4:36 and we have just passed Knoxville, so we have about two hours more to go. Tom did ALL the driving, so we pretty much stopped at every rest area when he got tired.

It just stopped pouring now. (It was sunny and warm all the way til right at the Tennessee line.) Traffic hasn't been too too bad.

The really fun part, though, was deciding to take a side trip to see the Natural Bridge when we saw the sign in Virginia for it.

Nashville, here we come!

We'll be leaving soon for the arduous drive to Nashville. We are very excited about attending our very first "Fan Fair", after hearing about it all these years. (Too bad xtu decided to have the 25th anniversary show the same week!)

It looks like there is so much going on all the time...I guess the hard part will be planning where to be and when for maximum entertainment and star contact/sightings.

This is going to be so much fun!!!

Countdown to Nashville

Tomorrow is June 1st. (Wow, time so flies now!) In just little over a week we will be heading down to Nashville for our first Fan Fair (CMA Fest). We are so excited!

Meanwhile, Tom has been golfing like every day and doing really well! Some nice weather day I plan on joining him to practice my skills on the links! :-)

I'm still fascinated by Facebook and finding more and more people there all the time!

It's interesting to think that with Jeff in Doreen's neck of the woods (Pelhm, White Plains-ish) he will seem close, when all this time, she has seemed far. You know what I mean? Hmm.....

Happy Memorial Day!

Summertime and the living is easy........! Okay, well, it's not summertime yet but it's been feeling like it this weekend for sure. And all my still in school friends are counting down the days.

At least one of my few blog followers has made it known that I've been remiss in logging in here. Sorry! The thing is, I've gotten really into facebook and it is so much fun (but rather time consuming!)I am Roberta Sallee on it, if you want to join and "friend me".

Seriously, these glimpses into the lives of people I know from now and yesteryear are just fascinating! One friend has oldtime photos of the Willingboro of her childhood on it. Made me think of the Hummells for sure!

We've been home since Las Vegas the end of April and keeping busy here. Tom has been doing a lot of golfing and less bowling now that the winter league season is over. We still do dancing (I learned zydeco and went to a zydeco dance!) and I am catching up with the CONTACT work I missed from all the vacationing. (Small commericial here... the next training session for helpline volunteers is starting up in July)

Hope your Memorial Day week-end has been/is/continues to be great!

You talking to ME?

Kathy Schrock shared a website called vocaroo.com This sound bite is an experiment:


It did! That's pretty cool!
Okay, so what's been going on lately is not that much. Tom is getting better from his recent illness. I went to Sugarfootin' Sunday at Prospectors and had big big fun. I am trying to coordinate the Brunch group for dinner Sat. night. I thought taking them all with me to the DiPilla's Bridgeplayers presentation of "Much Ado About Nothing" in Burlington would be fun. Ann says yes, no word from others yet........
It's been pretty rainy, but Tom managed to get out and cut the lawn yesterday (it was a jungle out there!)
Tomorrow is Teacher Appreciation Day and I hope to get to Carlucci's to take photos of the BCEA crowd there.....

Keep safe and keep learning

Janet Napolitano is speaking on C-Span. Secretary of Education Duncan is on too. "School is not over yet. We are going to end strong!" His idea of having teachers getting long term lesson plans ready, in case schools are closed and students are forced to learn at home is an interesting one. (And if they are told to stay home from school, they should stay there and not like hang at the mall, Janet says).

So we are home now and will be for awhile. Las Vegas was big big fun.