San Antonio

This weekend Matt and I drove to San Antonio for a few different things. It is only a little over an hour from Austin so it was a real easy trip. First of all, we went and met up with my cousin, Wes! I hadn't seen or talked to him in YEARS! I found him on myspace and we had been talking a little through that, but decided we needed to meet up! We went and ate then just sat around for a few hours visiting and catching up! It was GREAT getting to see him and find out what he has been doing since I last saw him! (By the way, I think the last time I saw him, we were probably about the same size! Haha!) So anyway, now that we know that we are only about an hour away, we said we would have to get together more often!



After visiting with Wes for a while we went to the Brad Paisley concert! We just had lawn seats, but we were some of the first people to get in so we were able to snag a spot right up front. We couldn't see a whole lot, but we could hear it and watch a lot of it on the big screens.

The first guy who played was Chuck Wicks. When he first came out he told us that this was their final show for that tour. I had heard before that Brad Paisley was a real prankster and we found out on Saturday that it is true! Chuck even said when he first came out that the pranks would be flying that night. Well during his first song, a group of guys ran out on stage and rolled him with some kind of glue then poured bags and bags of feathers all over him! It was hilarious! The sad thing is, he played the rest of his set with feathers all over him. It was pretty hard to take him seriously! His second song was his big hit Stealing Cinderella. During the song they had a giant picture of a castle on the screens behind him. Soon after he started, a big picture of Cinderella popped up on the screen but it has his face put on it! It was hilarious! Slowly, more "Cinderellas" popped up with different faces (guys from the band, I think). Again, it was VERY hard to take him seriously! After that song, Brad came out and said he had a video to show that nobody had watched yet. It was a fake video of Chuck's girlfriend (Julianne Hough from Dancing with the Stars - and now a country performer) pretending to break up with him. Chuck sang another song then Brad came back out and showed the "just kidding" video from his girlfriend. Chuck seemed to be a good sport about it all. I think he was expecting something already, but probably not all of that! It was pretty amusing though. :)

The next performer was Jewel. I have never been a fan of Jewel anyway, but I'm certainly not now! She was AWFUL live. We just couldn't believe that she was up there singing the way she was - it was not good at all. Sometimes the things she did were amusing because they were so bad, and sometimes it was just painful. We were not at all impressed with her performance.

Next up was BRAD PAISLEY! I get so excited when I see him in concert. He is SO good! He definitely puts on a good show and dishes out some AMAZING guitar solos! Sometimes I would look over at Matt and he would just kind of shake his head like, "How in the world does he do that..." I think Matt enjoyed it too, but probably not as much as me. :) I told him I would like to take him to one where we were closer up and could actually see the band. He is playing in Austin in January so I figured I might do some ebay searching the week of the concert and see if I happened to find any last minute good deals. Anyway, we had a great time!

Our next concert is on Thursday for Gavin DeGraw. We also found out just this week that ANOTHER one of our favorite bands Needtobreathe is playing with Gavin! EVEN BETTER, it is a FREE concert! That being said, there will probably be a million people there, so who knows if we will be able to see a thing, but we're going to try! :)

Then Friday is Marc Broussard and Saturday is Ben Folds and Missy Higgins! Fun, fun, fun!