Music City USA

I hope you have all recovered from the holiday weekend.  I spent my long weekend on a mini road trip to visit one of my favorite people in Nashville, Jessica.  I survived the 5.5 hour drive by myself (something I was unsure of going into it, ha).  We went to Musicians Corner in Centennial Park.  We got to see Elenowen and Ben Kweller as well as get food from the food trucks! Even though the Grilled Cheesery had to close early, I still got some pretty good fish tacos.

We went to Marathon Village and checked out the Antique Archeology store and of course had to check out the I Believe in Nashville mural.

We met up with a friend of Jess's and her friends who were visiting for the weekend at Sips and Strokes and did a wine and canvas night.

That night we went to the Patterson House, a speakeasy on Division Street.  I had a grilled cheese and a Pimm's cup and both were delicious.

We went also swung by downtown for a bit that night.

All of us girls from the first night met up with some more friend in Nashville and went canoeing on the Harpeth River.  Jessica, Breanna, and I shared a canoe and we managed, by the grace of God, not to tip over.  What we did manage was to get stuck too many times to count.  Thanks to the kind strangers that helped us out a few times....and sorry to the poor guys that we inadvertently tipped over.

After canoeing we took a much needed nap and shower before heading out again for the night.  Liz and Todd had been in Chattanooga and decided to stay over in Nashville to visit Jessica and Danny.  We went out and had a few drinks to celebrate Liz's birthday!

 On Monday morning I decided to stop at the Green Hills mall to check out the new Lilly Pulitzer store.  I had seen too many pretty pictures of the new store.  It did not disappoint in person.  Seriously, can they come and paint my future home one day?

#MAYERISBACK

I had a wonderful weekend filled with family, friends, and music!  I headed up to Lafayette after work on Friday.  We went to dinner and had some drinks at Harry's.  On Saturday, Wyatt and I had lunch down in Indianapolis with both sets of our parents and my sister.  After lunch we met up with my group of friends from college for a little summer reunion over a concert.  Our group of friends had met up two different summers while in college for John Mayer concerts in Indianapolis and when we saw he was coming through again this summer we jumped at the chance for a reunion over a concert. We tailgated in the lot for a while before the concert.  It was great to catch up with my friends and even see a couple I haven't seen in a couple of years!  

The Girls | Me and Wyatt 
Me and Devin | The Boys

The Entire Gang Before The Concert

John had a great set! I loved, loved, loved his backdrop.  He had a giant screen behind him that had scenes from Monument Valley and of other red rock landscapes that cycled through different seasons and times of day. He played a couple of new songs from the new album and several from the last album as well as some old favorites and a few covers. The weather was just about perfect for a summer concert. We drove back to Lafayette after the concert and met Wyatt's parents and grandpa for breakfast the next morning to cap off a great weekend

The Girls Inside After We Met Up With Shaw and Carrie

Via

Setlist:
Queen of California
I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)
Fool To Love You
Something Like Olivia
Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
Who Says
Shadow Days
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (Grateful Dead)
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
Neon
Your Body Is A Wonderland
Wildfire
If I Ever Get Around to Living
Half of My Heart
Born and Raised
Vultures
Paper Doll
Age of Worry
Waiting On The World To Change
Encore:
Angel From Montgomery (John Prine)
Gravity







Ps. Paradise Valley is out a week from today.  I definitely recommend it! It's a great listen from start to finish and is definitely the next step in the evolution of his music.  Oh, and did I mention that you can stream the entire album right now on itunes?

Next Generation of Hoosiers

Well, we can certainly all at least hope these boys grow up to be Hoosiers like us!  On Sunday we met at Devin and Jake's house to hang out with Dana, Reid, & Jessica (and Massie came too!). The last time I saw Reid, he was just a week or so old.  He's changed a lot in 18 months to say the least.  It was so good to get to play with Carter and Reid AND get to catch up with all the adults.

Carter was so much fun to play with while we waited on the rest of the girls!

Trying to get a group picture outside= easier said than done.

Our outtakes are quite amusing.

Trying to get a good group picture with us four girls + two little boys= pretty difficult.

Buddies

And to think...here the four of us are just six years ago this July at the John Mayer concert that Dana drove us to Indy for the weekend. Oh, how time flies!