I'm a Fanilow!!!

For my debut post to the blogging world, I wanted to share the most exciting event to happen in my life in recent months. My wonderful husband planned the most amazing anniversary get-away. Eric absolutely hates (well, that's a strong word - greatly dislikes) Las Vegas but he chose to celebrate our 14th anniversary there because he knows how much I love Barry Manilow. He got us tickets to Barry's concert!!!!! I totally broke all the rules, every single sign posted as you enter the theater, and all of Eric's warnings to bring you my first blog.

This is screen or curtain thingy (a scrim? Is that what it's called Theatre Steph?) on the front of the stage. Images were projected on it as the concert started. Eric got us super awesome seats - dead center, 13 rows from the front. I had to take a picture of us in the theater to prove that we were really there.

We all got Barry Manilow glow sticks. It really killed me to crack mine to make it glow because I wanted to keep it in pristine shape forever but I succombed to the masses. I had nowhere to put it for safe keeping than where you see it in the picture. One hand was holding my camera, the other had the phone texting my sister. What's a girl to do?

Here's just a few random shots of Barry that actually turned out to some degree.

Now for the best part of the evening (no, not that part - do you really think I'd tell you about that part?!?!?!) The concert was practically over, or so I thought, and he hadn't done Copacabana. That's my favorite song (it's got a good beat and I can dance to it - for all you American Bandstand fans out there). I was getting sad that he wasn't going to sing it but then he said, "We can't end this show and not do this song." Then the music started for Copacabana. I raced for my camera because that's the one song I wanted video of. I missed the first few measures but caught the rest of it. Thanks to Eric's great choice of seats, this up-top part of his performance was right in front of us. Had we been any closer to the stage, we wouldn't have got such a great view of this song!! (Pause the playlist at the bottom of the blog before you watch the video.)

We were really there! I still can't believe it! What an amazing experience! Eric is the best husband EVER!! He was so thoughtful to celebrate our anniversary in a way that was really mostly all about me and doing something that I'd just dreamed about doing for such a long time. I'll never forget that night! (Mostly because it was pretty much my anniversary, birthday and Christmas gifts all rolled into one big present!)