Shower the people you love with love...

So about a week before Kelley's birthday, I heard an advertisement on the radio of James Taylor and Carol King coming to Salt Lake City for a reunion concert. Woo Hooo! That's like a dream come true for me! I thought that would be something Kelley would like too, so I went right out and got some tickets and gave them to him for his birthday...(I know, it's kind of like Homer giving Marge a bowling ball with holes drilled his size in it for her birthday)

I have been a huge Carol King fan since I was about 15! I think I listened to her Tapestry album till it was about worn through. And as far as James Taylor goes, well Kelley got me hooked on him. I remember when we were dating, Kelley had the 8 track ( he he...yup were old) of his greatest hits playing in his old Camero. Then when he got his new Camero, he replaced it with the high tech cassette version. We bought all of his music and have seen him in concert a few times too over the years.

I love the lyrics to a lot of their songs...real meaningful expressions of love, longing, sorrow, friendship, and hope. As a young girl, I would write out the words to some of Carol King's songs and sit and ponder. I'm kind of geeky like that.

They put on a great concert...played for about two and a half hours. I don't know if I loved it so much because they were really good or because it just brought back so many good memories. Probably a little bit of both. James sounded like he always has. (Camille thinks he sounds like Kermit the frog! Ha!) I think his voice is kind of mellow and soothing. Carol King was a little raspy and kind of flat on some of the songs, but still so good. She can really belt it out! "You make me feel like a natural woman!!!'...

She was full of energy and danced around the stage like a teenager. Kelley and I were trying to figure out how old she is and figured it must be close to 70. Amazing!

Looking around at the crowd there, well, they were old.... We were laughing about it cause even though we didn't feel like it, we were probably about the same age! HA!!

We had a great night out together... walked around Gateway for a while, then had dinner there. It was so nice to spend the evening with him.... relax, hold hands, laugh and talk. It seems like it's been a while since we've had a chance to do that.