I'm a Parrothead!

Yay! It's official! I attended my first Jimmy Buffett concert, and had a BLAST! See us in the photo? Jimmy Buffett is on the TV screen above my right shoulder. The concert is truly a phenomenon. Tons of people come from all over to hear the great Jimmy sing, and party in the parking lot. The only time I've ever seen anything close to this was the tailgating for a Kansas City Chiefs football game. But people at a Buffett concert are so much nicer. We made friends with our parking lot neighbors, and got to know lots of other people waiting in their cars in the traffic after the concert.

I love that Jimmy Buffett sang his classics, plus some other great songs like "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison. Unfortunately, Dan and Sean were getting drinks for us, so I didn't get to dance with my hooney for that song, or for "Cheeseburger in Paradise." But I did get to dance with my friend Beth, and it was fun just standing in our barefeet on the lawn, waving our arms and dancing.

The highlight of the night was singing "Fins" with the other ten thousand (or God knows how many) people there. It was a sight to behold: the stage lights turned on the crowd as we all raised our arms and made fin shapes above our heads, and turned the fins to the left and then to the right. Oh, what fun! I can't wait to see Buffett again!

Now I need to update my Bucket List scrapbook. Who knows what I'll do next. Maybe I'll post my list on my blog, and let y'all decide for me. Yeah, right!

My Bucket List

I have a list of Things To Do Before I Die. If you know me, this comes as no surprise because I am a list person. I make lists of everything.

I am now going to start calling it my Bucket List. Ever since that movie came out, I heard about the plot and I like the Bucket List phrase much better - things I'm going to do before I kick the bucket.

I started my Bucket List in college. I made Dan start one too, and he came up with a few good ones. We still have the lists, and are working on them slowly. Dan has 15 things to do on his list (13 are already crossed off) and I have 51 things to do (17 are crossed off). I've now turned our lists into a pretty cute scrapbook too. We have photos of ourselves fulfilling each of our dreams, and I have the lists posted in the scrapbook too.

And guess what?! I have "Go to a Jimmy Buffett" concert on my list, and I get to cross it off today! Our friend Sean mentioned going to the concert back in March, and I said YES!!! So he found us some tickets on eBay, and we are going tonight. It's a bit rainy here in St. Louis today, but I really don't care. I am just thrilled to be going. The kids are going to Grandma's house, and we are packing a blender in the back of the car. Sean is driving so Beth, Dan and I can enjoy ourselves, and we definitely plan on it.

So tomorrow, when I'm feeling up to it (ha, ha), I will post about crossing the 18th thing off my list. Only fifty more to go.

Here I come, Jimmy!