So a few months ago I started seeing ads about this concert with James Taylor and the Tabernacle Choir coming in September.  Oh boy, as soon as I saw this I was so excited!  I do love James Taylor and with the Mo Tab and Utah Symphony...are you kidding me?  I had to get my hands on some tickets!  That was the thing though...It was being presented by OC Tanner, but they went through the church to distribute the tickets.  You had to register for them, then they would randomly choose people to get the tickets. So I found out the day ( time and second) you could start registering and made sure I got my name in there early.  The kids were all here on that day so I had them each register too...(only one registration per household) just to increase my chances. 

Well a few weeks later, I get this email saying we had been selected to get tickets!  Oh man I was so excited!  I never dreamed we would get picked...I'm just not lucky like that.

A few weeks later, I got these in the mail!

 Getting up to the conference center that night was pretty intense.  We went to Maggie's wedding reception early ( oh my sweet little young women getting married!) then headed right up there.  We were sailing right along till we got downtown then my heart sank when we saw the traffic backed up all the way down west temple.  There was this  Comic Con thing going on at the salt palace and it was absolute madness downtown.  There were so many people! All dressed up like every freak show, super hero, comic book, harry potter, video game person you could imagine...walking down the road and sidewalk, it was like we had driven into the twilight zone.  At each light you would only move ahead a few cars.  We were really getting worried cause we were supposed to be in our seats 30 minutes early or they would start giving the seats to those there waiting on stand by.  The parking was pretty much impossible too.  We decided to try this church parking lot northwest of the conference center...pretty sure there would not be any spots left by then.  We pulled in and the parking lot was packed....not one place.  So we were just going to drive through and back out again.  Just as we pulled in, a parked cars lights went on and he started backing out.  No way!  So this amazing parking spot opened up...we parked, hopped out and took off, half running, half walking to the conference center. Lots of people were just going in, so I guess everyone was stuck in that mess.  We showed them our tickets and they directed us to the main floor.  We though,'well that's cool...pretty decent seats'.  We went inside and showed the usher our tickets again.  She looked at them and said

" oh these are good seats!"  and took us right down to the front!  Ha!  Once again....this never happens to me! 

  The place was packed!

 Well the concert was just wonderful.  It was a unlikely partnership with the choir, but I read in the paper that James Taylor said it was one of the things on his bucket list.  It sounded amazing with  his songs that I love with that orchestra and  choir for back up.  The choir and orchestra did a bunch of songs  on their own too that were really so good.  We have seen James Taylor a few times in concert before and  thought maybe since James was getting older that his voice wouldn't be what it used to be, but it was actually better! He sang all his oldies and some new ones that I loved.  He had everyone singing along and clapping with shower the people you love and came back for two  encores.  Such a fun time with my sweetie.  (he loves James too!...I remember listening to his cassette tapes ( Ha !) with Kelley when we were dating!) It really was a magical night.