Date Night - C is for Concert

As I posted here, Andrew and I are going through the alphabet and going on a date for each letter. Originally I was planning on hitting each letter in order, but that's boring. Also I have a couple good ones lined up and didn't want to skip them just because it hadn't done the letters before them.

So...C is for Concert. A B.B. King concert to be specific! Andrew and I had such an amazing time at The Lumineers a couple months ago we decided to go to more concerts. That night we looked at our local performing arts center and saw that B.B. King was coming to our tiny town! We both got so excited we immediately bought tickets! 

There was a random long line outside the doors!  They weren't checking tickets there...I guess no one thought to check if another door would open!

We've been looking forward to this night for so long but didn't realize it was the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I only looked at the calendar last week and saw that we had to book it back from San Francisco to make it in time. And make it we did! 

We got free popcorn! (I had a coupon in the mail)

Dinner was popcorn and a huge gin & tonic!

It was an incredible concert. The venue was small enough it felt pretty intimate (mind you there's still probably about 1,500 seats). B.B. was joking around with the audience and gave a beautiful performance. I'm so glad that we got the opportunity to see him live. He's 88 and still touring, but who knows how much longer. It was seriously awesome! A great date to start off our ABCs!

The man himself!

ABC Dates

A little while ago I read a great date idea on a blog I follow Him & Her.  I thought it was such a cute and inventive idea I had to borrow it.  To keep things fun in our relationship Andrew agreed to do this with me!  We will work our way through the alphabet using the letters to determine our date night.  For example:

A - Arcade

B - Batting Cages

C - Country Club dinner

etc...

I'm excited to start!

BB King

After seeing The Lumineers in concert, Andrew and I wanted to create more intentional date nights.  We had such a good time at the concert we wanted to spend more time making memories like that!  Which is why we are so lucky, because we just found out that BB King will be coming to perform in our small town! We both love BB King and immediately bought tickets. He's not coming until early December, but I'm already super excited!

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Date Night

Last night Andrew and I were able to go on our first 'real' date night in a while! These past few weeks have kept us both pretty busy, so it was nice to have some time to be together. We were lucky enough to win a local raffle for 2 tickets to see The Lumineers! Of course the concert was down in Phoenix, but that just added to the adventure!

After an hour and a half drive we made it to the venue and quickly grabbed a bite to eat with some of the other winners (the benefit of living in a small town is no one is a stranger for very long). We got obit tickets from will call and made it to our seats to see the first opening act, Nathaniel Rateliff. He was pretty good but I couldn't help but notice that he looked like a heavier Tom Hanks! 

There was a short break between Nathaniel and the second opening act, Dr. Dog, so we were able to catch up with even more winners (there were 20 tickets given away).  We all reveled in how incredible our seats were! I mean...we were 5 rows from the front just to the left of the middle section! We had the perfect view because we were close enough to see the stage, but high enough that the people in the standing area weren't blocking our view!

After what seemed like forever, The Lumineers finally came on, and I definitely think they were worth the wait. The put on such an incredible performance that the entire crowd was standing for the whole performance. 

We wound up leaving just before the encore. It was already 11pm and we still had an hour and a half to drive home. All in all it was a super fun date night and Andew and I promised we would have more intentional nights like that!