A much needed getaway planned

Have you ever got to a point when even sitting in the hot bath tub just won’t let you relax? Well that’s the point that we’ve been at lately and it seems like the perfect time to run away for a little while and go someplace to relax.

And the timing couldn’t be better. Last fall I ordered Daryl’s birthday gifts and we (sorry .. Daryl 🙂 ) was able to use the first one on Saturday. You see his birthday gifts were to go see two concerts this year and so we were off to the Cities to see the first one. The concert was Billy Joel along with the opening act of Gavin DeGraw. Yea, can you say Fun?

So Kyle helped us out with the chores and also to watch over the animals,  and with knowing that – we were off! It wasn’t the most perfect weather, but hey we were headed for a weekend get away and going to a concert. Life is good!

We purposely booked a hotel out of the cities and took the light rail system to get downtown. It worked out just perfect. Once we got downtown, we found a small pub to grab something to eat before the concert and we only had to walk one block to get to the Target Center where we needed to get go. Seriously, I was kinda wishing it was going to be a little further because with all the food I ate,  I think I could have used the walk!

So we hung out the night with some of our closest friends at the concert, all 19,000 of them in a sold out crowd. Our seats were pretty high in the nose bleed area, but they weren’t the worst that we’ve ever had either.  The opening act was Gavin DeGraw and then followed by Billy Joel. The concert lasted 3 hours and it was a great!.

After a quick trip back on the rail system, we called our hotel and got picked up in no time. Like I said earlier, we purposely stayed out of town to stay away from all the traffic of driving your own car into the city and we decided that this was a very good choice.

While on the train I snapped a quick picture of the new Viking’s stadium that they are building. I’m not that much of a football fan, but it was pretty cool to see it being built.

When we got home Sunday afternoon we wanted to see just how well our car did in that driving. It was windy and rainy so we weren’t quick sure how she was going to do. But we had exactly 329 miles that we put on and had used 7 gallons of gas. Not bad, not bad at all!

The rest of our Sunday afternoon/evening is filled with graduation parties to go to and that will be fun to catch up with some of our friends at those parties.

What a great weekend!