My husband rocks.

He scored 4 tickets to the Michael Buble concert in Dallas.

I'll give you a minute to recover from your swoon.

I invited 3 of my best friends to go with me and they drove down to Dallas to stay the night. Even though he got the tickets for me (I've been talking about trying to go for more than 2 years) he said that he himself would not be going with me. In fact, I think he said something about certain places would have to freeze over and then he still wouldn't go to a Michael Bubbles concert.

I have such beautiful friends. We have 20 kids between the 4 of us. Impressive, huh? And my 3rd double cousin and I are almost identical. She's the one on the far left. We were roommates in college and used to tell people we were twins. We actually had some who believed us.

A funny story is that on the way down, they stopped at a gas station that had huge beautiful dolls on display right in front. One of them said, "Only in Texas would you find a display like this in a gas station. " The attendant said, "Ma'am, you're in Marietta, Oklahoma."
ha ha ha ha ha....... I still laugh so hard that I start to cry every time I think about that.

We went to eat supper at Pei Wei in downtown Dallas and I just have to say, they have to coolest drink machine. It is interactive and it offers over 300 drink combinations.

We had such a great time laughing and eating and trying all the drink combinations that we would have had a great evening just going there.

We arrived at the American Airlines center ahead of schedule and had time to look around.

We saw these buses right near our parking garage and we were just sure they were Michael's. One member of our party signed our seat and row number to the bus just in case they wanted to ask us up on stage. The funny thing is that she actually does know sign language but she dumbed it down for the people on the bus just in case they didn't know sign language. And I'm honestly not for sure what we would have done had Michael said, "Would the 4 ladies in section 116 row W please come up on stage?"

At this point, we headed to the center and since the tickets explicitly said, "no cameras allowed", I left mine in the car. But another member of our party decided to sneak hers in. Bless her. The rest of the pictures are hers. We kept expecting to get busted at any minute but by the time we got inside, we realized that no one really cared if we had a camera or not. Everybody had a camera.

So, if you are going to one of his concerts, take you camera. Please.

Also, we took pictures with our tickets because we were just sure they would take the tickets at the door. Wrong again. Apparently it's been awhile since any of have been to a concert because these days, they just scan them. Sweet.

We had no idea where the seats were, so even though we were so excited to be there, we were a little anxious about where we would be sitting.

When we finally got to the section where we thought are seats were, we asked the attendant and she pointed to the seats up in the railed section and ours were on the front row. When we saw our seats and realized how great they were, I think we all screamed like 6th grade girls and then the other 3 pledged their undying devotion to me and declared we would be best friends forever.
They really were good seats. With no one sitting directly in front of us. And a great view. And plenty of leg room.

And that is why my husband rocks.

Naturally 7 opened the show. We had no idea who they were but we were all very impressed! You can see their video here. They are an acapella group that does vocal play which just means they make all the sounds of all the instruments as well as sing. It was so fun to listen to and we felt like we had been to a full concert by the time they were finished.

And then Michael came out.

And the screaming commenced

I tell you, there is just nothing like being out at an event like this with friends who love you, know pretty much all the good and the bad you've done in your entire life, and still love you anyways.

And friends that you can just have good fun with.

We had so much fun.

The show was really impressive. There were huge screens behind him that would change and move. Just about everything from the special effects, to the band, to the singer were impressive. And Michael was actually quite funny. He told a lot of jokes and did a lot of entertaining things.

But truthfully, the best part was just being there and hearing all the songs live. It was so great.

If you happen to be going to one of his concerts, let me just tell you that after he does the Michael Jackson impersonation (we were crying, we were laughing so hard) and then the song from Ferris Bueller's Day off, he walks through the crowd to a platform in the middle of the floor. Just FYI. We so could have been in this picture had we known it.

The end was pretty spectacular with fireworks and confetti flying everywhere. It was a great concert. And this was my very favorite song from the night. (this was not our recording but one I found from the Dallas concert on youtube)

We were there!!!!

My husband could sing this to me every day for the rest of my life and I would die a happy woman.

So that was our big exciting event for July. It was one of those times where you just want to somehow capture and preserve the moment. Everything seems right with the world, you are with people who amuse you and make you laugh, and you know you will never find yourself in that exact same place again.

We enjoyed every minute of it.