Sunday Travel

This has been longest since I started writing my blog to post.   It is also the first vacation.  So, it was hard to take time to stop and write posts (plus I am still working off my phone only).

We fly back to our city today from NYC.   I will write more about our wonderful long weekend soon.  I just have to say the concert last night was just amazing and we both really lived it all.  

Madison Square Garden,  the walk to and from the show from the Kn Marriott Marquis, the opening artists (Jimmie Vaughn and Gary Clark Jr.) Were so good.  If you have a chance, check out Gary Clark Jr. 

Then Eric Clapton came out in his true lack of fanfare style, played some great old bluesy numbers, then Layla and Tears in Heaven and couple others acoustic.  He had great sound, timing perfect, same voice...he had a great guitar player paying some of his riffs,  but understandable considering EC is in his 70s.  He even did White Room, which is one of my favorite Cream songs.  Then Wonderful Tonight, Crossroads, Cocaine...The audience loved it.

For encore, he came back out and they played a number that keyboard player sang (he had an amazing voice) and piano guy was literally top notch!  Vaughn and Clark,  Jr. played guitar with Clapton...made us all want more.

Best concert of my life...the end.

See you Monday!

I Did It

I cannot believe I did it.  DH and I decided to spend half of the extra cash we made on our home sale on a fun trip.  This is the money left over after we pay off RH from the net proceeds of CH.  Of course, we are carrying this expense of the trip now until closing, but I will just pay my credit card off with my vacation/Roth savings and pay myself back out of the house sale. 
We wanted tickets to see a legendary guitar player - Eric Clapton before it is too late.  I missed out seeing one of my favorite artists in person - Prince.  So, I am not waiting on this dream trip.  So, we had to buy the tickets now before they were sold out.  I am beyond excited.  My husband is excited too, maybe not as much about seeing him in NYC as I am, but I figure in our old age we have plenty of time to sit on a beach.  Let's do NYC while we can still get around well and walk to and from the concert from our hotel. 
I truly cannot wait.  We do not do stuff like this very often.  The last trip we took was San Diego in 2015 and it was for DH work conference.  We never took a honeymoon and last year we celebrated 10 year anniversary by going out to dinner.  So, I want to spend a bit of our hard earned money on making some memories.  Wow, what a fun trip to look forward to!