Robert Earl Keen and Sledding

Dad - thanks for your thoughts - it is nice to hear what's going on at home. Mike was watching that Jazz game you and Paul saw in Seattle and got really frustrated by the end of it. He is a serious Jazz fan, but it looked like a really exciting game. Rebekah - that does sound like an amazing new word. I have to admit, I can't really figure out how to say it.

John and I had a really nice weekend. We went to Park City on Saturday night to hear Robert Earl Keen. He's a musician from Texas and he is an amazing songwriter - very funny and witty and can tell great stories in his songs. Well, I was kind of tired and the concert didn't start until 9:30 or 10:00 but we got there around 8. They had a band opening and they weren't that good - the bassist did some weird turtle head bob that made it difficult to look at him without laughing.

Then we had a long time to wait until Robert Earl Keen and his band came out. It was a small venue, and everyone was crowded standing up, trying to get as close to the stage as possible. But let me tell you, it was worth the wait. Live music is amazing and Robert Earl Keen definitely exceeded my expectations. He has an amazing group of musicians who play with him and my favorite part of the whole concert was watching the steel guitarist grin with sheer joy as he played with the other band members. Amazing.

We also went sledding yesterday in the -5 degree weather. It was cold. We went to Tibble Fork up American Fork canyon where there is this bowl shaped hill that made for frequent collisions at the bottom as people departed from different parts of the hill and hit the bottom at the same time. John went down and almost flew off his tube when he hit a bump and before he could secure himself, he hit another bump and heard his vertebrae crunching like celery. Luckily he can walk and he thinks it even may have realigned his back. Who needs a chiropractor when you can go sledding in ridiculously cold temperatures. Everyone else got a little gun shy after various run ins with the hill or other sledders so towards the end, I was the only one running up the hill for just one more ride down.