A Night Out

My friend, Kyle gave us some tickets to go see Battery: a Metallica Tribute Band on Friday night at The Omni (formerly Gatorz). So after a long week of Rowan being sick and whiny, we had a night out. We got a babysitter for the two young ones (Jourdyn is away at Fall Retreat with church). We took our friend Jason with us and Julie met us there.

Metallica was huge when I was in Junior High and High school. I had many a friend that loved them and I did too! Rob commented when we got to the Omni (which is on a college campus) that you could tell how old the band playing is by the type of cars in the parking lot. About every other car was either a mini-van or an SUV. There were maybe a handful of college-aged kids there. The rest of us were overweight suburban has-beens out to relive our glory days with a tribute band! I believe at least one even brought their teenage son with them. Another way you could tell everyone there was old - at a Metallica concert back in the day, all these people you see standing around in the picture above, would have been in a mash pit, guys and girls headbanging and sitting on each others shoulders with the girls flashing the band. But no, they all just stood there watching.

Saturday, we just stayed home all day. At about 4:30 Nadine comes running into the livingroom. "It's snowing! It's snowing!" She was very excited! Jumping up and down and screaming about it. Give her time, she'll grow to loath it, like most of us! Snow? In November? These flakes were huge probably at least an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. I took a picture but it's not the greatest.