Me And Sneeky Pete

If you look closely, you can see Barry Manilow in the background.

Sneeky and I won 3rd place at the truck show. Oh, and a set of semi truck tires.

Class and culture, people!! Class and culture!!!!

Ice Road Trucker

Ever watch the Ice Road Truckers show on A & E?

We do. We've been fans for the past three seasons. Our favorite has to be the silly natured Canadian named Alex. Can't figure out his last name, it's huge. Well, look who we met at the truck show....



It's Alex! And he was as sweet as can be. I bought one of his t shirts and had him sign it, for my brother the trucker. He was "tickling" me but down here in the U.S. we call it groping....

Steve got groped, as I did:



Equal opportunity groper.

Clapton Is God.

In Eric Clapton's book, he described himself as a shy, self conscious kid who loved to play guitar but doubted his skills and hated his singing voice. So when he walked into a public restroom in London after a recent "gig," and saw the words scrawled into the wall, "Clapton Is God," his self esteem shot up tremendously and he admits he became unbearable after that.

But. Clapton IS God.

I hold with high regard any person who can master a musical instrument such as the guitar and make a long and wonderful career out of it. Clapton's story is wrought with horrible drug abuse and relationships, terrible tragedy, and a great redemption in the end. And I could not wait to see him play in person.

Here's some hilights:

Steve Winwood, ripping up the guitar at the beginning of the concert with Eric. I had NO IDEA Windwood could play like that!!!



Winwood playing "Georgia on My Mind," with a back-up singer behind him.



My Guitar Hero, Mr. Slowhand himself:



My sweetheart Steve had a great time, as well. He was excited to see the concert he never thought would be possible. I got us access to the floor seats via elevator so he wouldn't have to walk very far, then got us access to the VIP lounge nearby so we could both use the very convenient restrooms and get snacks and drinks at the snap of a finger. Too cool.

Here we are, just before the concert began:



We got there a little early, more than an hour. We were excited. Here are all the empty seats behind us.....



I wished I had some pictures of the varied fans at this concert. There were lawyers, accountants, hippies, young kids, old people ( a whole parking lot was dedicated to handicapped parking...aaahahahahaaaa!! We parked there..... )
and there was even some high-brow looking people who were certainly coming to the concert after a day on their yacht, or at the golf course. What a diverse bunch of people. All of them white, all of them TERRIBLE dancers. Ug. White people should just sit.

Viva. Las Vegas.

We are stopping at home after our few days in Vegas at the truck show. I will post lovely photos of that once I have more than a moment to look thru them. We are on our way to Phoenix for ("gasp") the Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood concert.
And we called the auditorium, we are definitely allowed to take our camera!!! Yaaaay!!

Here's a quick minute of our Vegas time:



Elvi. They're everywhere.