more birthday surprises and Jewel concert

Wow… I had a couple more b-day surprises this week.  Thursday Meagan got me ANOTHER present.  She is so sweet… I told her to quit it – she is spoiling me!  LOL.  She got me a really cute mug with my initial on it.  And when I got home I had a lovely card from my cousin Jacqui waiting for me in the mail.  :)  I love surprises.  :)

We got back a few hours ago  from Birmingham.  BEST. CONCERT. EVER.  Our seats were great.  We were 10th row on the floor.  She had Meiko open for her.  I had never heard of her but had looked up a couple of her songs on You Tube before we went.  She was great live!  Very funny and entertaining.  She has a really unique voice.  I plan on getting her cd.  And Jewel was just awesome.  She sang quite a few of my favs, as well as several brand new songs.   I usually know all her “stories” that she tells before some of the songs, but I was happy that last night she seemed to tell some new/different ones… so that was neat.  Of course, she came back out and did an encore of Chime Bells.  This is the only full video I got… they said no photography or recording, but I had to get at least one video.  :)

I’m sorry to say though, that our hotel room last night left MUCH to be desired.  LOL!  We won’t be staying at that place anymore.  It was old and yucky and stuff was broken and it smelled weird and to top it off we paid $127 for one freaking night!  It was the only room I could find available though… and I booked it months ago!  Ugh.

Anyway, we had a good trip.  Stopped at Cracker Barrel on the way home and ate breakfast.  YUM!  They had their Christmas stuff out already and I got several really adorable ornaments.  :)  Then we stopped at Piggly Wiggly when we got back to Iuka so I could grab a few things for supper and next week.  Lilly was sure glad to see us when we got home.  She watched us from the window when we pulled up and then greeted us at the door.  :)  Now I need to unpack, do some laundry, and clean a bit.  Maybe tomorrow I can scrapbook!  :)