From What to Whatever

I had been looking forward to last night for awhile. Being that I don't get out much these days, a night out with KH, who *always* makes me laugh, was needed. The fact it was going to be free 4th row tickets at Sugarland was even better.

But it was not in the cards.

The night started off good enough. Dinner with the Baileys (from here-on-out known as my angels) at Hacienda on Henderson. Then joined by KH and MB. Great atmosphere, great weather, great friends. All things "great".

Until.....

We get near Fair Park. Where not only is Sugarland in concert but the State Fair is going on (which we knew), but Shrek the Musical is on stage and apparently, they start letting tailgaters for the next day's Texas Tech/Baylor game park. OVERNIGHT.

To top things off...since traffic is at a stand-still and people are trying to get in touch with each other and find out where to park...cell service goes down.

The Bailey's park in the front yard of some of the locals. We get up to that point and of course...no more room. Cops are signaling everyone to keep going forward. Every time we ask where to go we get the same answer, "Next gate right around the corner" until we've successfully circled Fair Park. That's right people...no parking. (Equally frustrating since has been everyone offering their two cents on where we 'should' have tried parking -you know, cuz we didn't try everything we could - and asking, 'Are you sure there wasn't any more parking?'. No...I'm sure I wanted to miss out on the closest I would have ever sat at a concert. And for a band I love. Yeah...I'm a little sure.)

After barely making it to the downtown Sheraton where MMS and I run (literally) in to 'relieve ourselves' since we've been stuck in a parking lot full of traffic for an hour and a half, we then head to the Iron Cactus.

Things thankfully turned around. We all came to terms with missing the concert (though I woke up ticked-off again...imagine that) and managed to have fun. Learn some new things. Meet some new people. Enjoy a new view. Yep...a lot of 'new'.

So while all the chaos was going on, I thought to myself, Of course...this is my luck. This is my life. I ended up looking back on it thinking, It could have been wayyyyy worse and I'm thankful for a night out with friends and meeting new people.
Seems to be the theme of my life these days and fate seems to keep pushing me toward 'new', whether I'm ready or not.

But please...please...do not ask me if I'm positive we searched for all the parking or that you just can't believe there wasn't a side lot we missed. Believe me. WE DIDN'T. Grrrrrrrr...