King George.

Live music is my lifeblood.

I've seen every one from Def Leppard to Britney Spears, Eagles to Ricky Martin, Billy Ray Cyrus to The Fray, Bruno Mars to Carrie Underwood.... and when I found out George Strait was going on tour for the last time I knew seeing him was a MUST.

Lucky for me, he was going to be in Louisville, just a couple hours south of Indy! And double whammy, my awesome mama had scooped up tickets when they went on sale while I was gallivanting around Australia back in November.

When March finally rolled around, we loaded into the car and headed southbound one Friday after work for a weekend of gambling, good music, and girl time.

I'm glad I've got a mother and a cousin's-wife (not to be confused with sister-wife) who love country music as much as this girl... they're some of the best concert mate's around! 

They had the stage in the very middle of the place, and Jorge spent a little time on each side, which was awesome because everyone got a little piece of the action!

I think my exact words after the first encore were "I forgot how many hits he has had!", for an old boy he sure put on a helluva show. And the little Tom Petty diddy he threw out at the very end of course tied the love knot for me. If this truly was his last tour ever, I'll be disappointed I only saw him once, but I'm glad I had that opportunity!

We stayed at the casino, so I'll let you all guess how much time I logged at the roulette tables. I only walked away about $20 down at the end though, thankfully. Here's to hoping my Vegas trip in a few weeks will have better odds.

After the St. Paddy's stress working all week, driving down to Louisville, the concert on Friday night, gambling in every minute of free time I could find, shopping all over Bardstown Rd and the outlet malls, I can only tell you how wiped out I was when we got back into town. All in favor of extending weekends by adding an additional Sunday say AYE. Aye.

HullabaLou

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HullabaLou!

We had a little girls weekend down in Louisville this past weekend, and it was fantastic. My mom, my cousin's wife and my other cousin packed up and heading down I-65 to the land of Indiucky again! (or Kentuckiana, whatever tickles your fancy) Plenty of shopping, some very tasty food, a little Fourth Street Live action and oh yea a 3day long music festival!

The geniuses' who run Churchill Downs decided to host a 3-day music festival and aside from the 98ish degree temperatures, we had a blast!We only bought one-day passes for the second day (Saturday) but it was worth the price tag - some of my favorite acts we saw were Sara Evans, Jason Aldean (yummy - a personal favorite of mine!)and of course... KENNY! My cousin's wife (wow that's weird to say - they just got married a few weeks ago!) is a HUGE Kenny fan, so he was our main reason for trekkin to Louisville!My favorite part was probably when Jason Aldean came on stage in the middle of Kenny's performance and they sang a Steve Miller Band song, a Lynyrd Skynyrd song and then... a little Bob Marley!! I love love LOVE when artists do that - the opening act will come out and the headliner and them sing fun songs together!

I wish we would have gone on Sunday, Steve Miller Band and Zac Brown Band both played... I am looking forward to next year though! They had 5 stages with bands/artists playing ALL day long, it was really neat! The weekend featured everyone from Bon Jovi to Kenny to Dave Matthews Band to War to Gladys Night and Huey Lewis!

[All photos in this post are from HullabaLou's facebook page, I will try to upload mine when I get free time!]