End of March - Houston

Arrived Sunday night and went to The Warehouse, where we saw Chris Cornell… (Soundgarden / AudioSlave) Awwesome show – here is a clip from YouTube…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3nNIEt1FpI

The Warehouse was a great venue. Small in size, excellent lighting, but getting tickets was a fiasco. We tried the standard way of going online and buying them from the venue. To find they were sold out. So, after a couple of days and no tickets becoming available I went to Craig’s List and EBay…..score…..

Two tickets on EBay for $100 will ship free anywhere, not a bad deal – so I bid on them. The auction was to end on Friday evening (the day I was traveling home), so that would still give us time to do something different if needed.

The tickets on Craig’s List – Pepe contacted several people and started getting emails back. One of the places took you to an after market ticket seller, but it was on line also. There were so many people asking questions to the EBay bid, that I really thought that I would be outbid soon. We went ahead and ordered tickets through this online agency. Processed two tickets, the receipt came for one….. Pepe was going to straighten it out, but they needed to talk to the card holder. This was the last day at work – I was absolutely inundated with things to finish up. I told him – I don’t have time to fuck with this today!! – Then I felt horrible for being irritated. We got another ticket processes and sent to him. Everyone survived…

When I got home, looked at EBay – guess what???? I Won – so now we had two more tickets. Called a couple of people that were going to be in the area, and they went with us also. So it all worked out.
We met the guy at the concert that sold the EBay tickets – what a nut - he was,…he was like I’ll buy you a beer inside – so glad you could make it – man, its great seeing you (complete with hugs) what is this all about????? Sure enough we saw him inside at the bar, with his wife – they act like long lost friends – had to ditch that quick….

It was a late night – and we left just before the end of the show. But had class the next morning.

The next night – we stayed in the room, ordered dinner, drank a bottle of wine and were OUT…. It is tough getting old.

The following night we went to downtown Houston and bought tickets for Les Miserables……

Everyone else went out drinking at the sports bar in the hotel. I am sure there will be more stories about what happened there. I know I didnt miss anything there –
One story that we heard was:
One of the younger guys was hitting on the waitress, apparently she was really into him (must have been dark) and then one of the other guys that we work with – asked her if she could hook him up and if she had any gay friends because he was really into men – blew his evening…. Too funny….

The next day at class, most of them were hung over and hating life. Gatorade and Ibuprofen for everyone ! ! !

We then went to the Broadway Musical the last night there. It was incredibly. To see performances in real life is just a testament to the talent. We did the clean up / dress nice thing. That was fun. Of course Pepe was just as handsome as ever!!! Must be easy when you are that good looking to begin with. The hardest part of the evening was that it did not start until 8pm, the intermission was at 1030 pm – I was darn tired by then…. I think it got out near 1130 or midnight.

Next morning was another early one – off to the airport for a flight at 9am, which was delayed 1.5 hours. Could have slept in for a bit longer.