Rockin' the pants off!

(Greg)

We found a club last night that advertised a jazz trio playing. Finally! we found live music within the confines of our town that doesn't involve a 10 minute car ride and 20 minute walk! And the place is just down the road, even.

So we showed up, ordered some drinks, and got busy with our sitting and listening skills. The band showed up and we rocked out with Spanish versions of "Pretty Woman," some Elvis song I cannot remember, as well as your best 50s, 60s, and 70s English, Spanish, and English-sung-in-Spanish classics. Marijke summed it up nicely with, "It was somewhat reminiscent of a bad after-wedding dance-off."

We even had the 30-somethings dancing around with the twist, country dancing, and a schmorgasboard or random and upbeat hoopla. We finished the evening with a rendition of "It's Raining Men" that made me remember my time at the drag show in KC.

So, yes, it was not exactly a "jazz trio" like I would have expected when I thought "jazz" nor was there a "trio" but rather a "duo." I suppose that the trio was supposed to show up but ran into an old friend or something and ditched the rest of us. Good news is a Beatles tribute is coming up in a few weeks!

On other brighter-side-of-the-news: we bought our plane tickets to the States yesterday! Bad news is that, while we are arriving in JFK airport on the 30th of May, we have not yet purchased anything from NY to KC. We found some tickets for that night but we arrive in NY at 7:30 and the flight we found leaves at 9:30 or so. I wanted to make sure that we would have enough time for plane exchange, customs, etc. so we are looking into some other venues. We'll keep you all updated.

Lastly, Kadelin will be arriving here in less than 3 days! AWESOME!