Our Fourth of July

Even though J picked up the new cycle on Thursday, because it was a holiday weekend, he had quite a bit of it off. He was able to get away Friday night for us to have a date to the Toby Keith concert. We met J's SDS and his wife, at the concert and my friend went to the concert with us, so we had a nice fun group of people. We were really excited about the concert. It's the one main event a year that happens in this little town and as a plus, the weather was supposed to be in the high eighties that day instead of the normal hundred-plus for this time of year. The concert was held on the Polo Field at Ft. Sill. They sold all 12,500 tickets prior to the show, promising for the field to be packed.

Of course, as soon as we parked the car and walked to the Polo Field, it started pouring rain. As promised it was already packed with people and lots and lots of Joe. With the start of the torrential rains, the Polo Field kind of turned into chaos for a moment as people were running for cover, parents tried to get their strollers and young children covered with what ever they had so they'd be out of the rain. The SDS's wife said they promised a show rain or shine, so we decided to wait it out. By the time we got into the roped off area before the stage, we were soaked all the way to the skin. I had thrown an umbrella into my purse before we left the house, and had managed to keep my head some what dry during the initial down-pour, but the rest of me was soaked.

As we walked up, DS's from other battery's were making fun of J and the SDS for being there with Joe on their night off. We promised to arm-bar or trip any that came near enough and continued on with out evening. Having a sitter for our girls and a designated driver to get us home safely, K and I decided to have some beer. We bought beer and sodas for the ones not drinking and settled into our night to enjoy the concert.

As promised, the show went on despite the rain . The first performer was Jaron & The Long Road to Love. He sang four songs, ending with his new hit, "I pray for you." It was awesome! It's a great song and he did a great job! The next set of performers, and the ones I was most excited about, were Joey & Rory.
The weekend started out great! I LOVE them!! I think they're the cutest thing ever! They did a GREAT show and sang my favorite songs of theirs. After they finished, and the crew was getting ready for Toby, K and I decided we needed more beer before the next act.




When we got back, Toby Keith came on stage. He was awesome!! He's all about the troops and sang a lot of his old stuff and some of his new stuff. Ending the show, of course, with "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue." We were walking out when he started singing it, hoping to miss the chaos of everone else leaving. It was already 2230 and J and SDS had to be back at the battery at 0500. Toby Keith did an amazing job and we had a great time! It was nice to have an adult night.

We didn't do much the rest of the weekend, having done our celebrating on Friday night. J was able to be home for quite a bit of the weekend because of the holiday and that made it a great weekend!!