Suvarnabhumi Airport Opens in Bangkok, Thailand

I guess its pronounced su-wan-na-poom. It looks very impressive. United has one flight a day to/from Tokyo-Narita to Bangkok.

under the fricken weather

I woke up Monday morning with a cough. I got to work and everyone was complaining about their newly acquired cold, allergies or a general feeling of blahness. I knew I was doomed.

I feel better today. No work! I drank some Emergen C. It was on sale. It's like 1,600 times the recommend daily amount of vitamin C one should have in their diet. I guess its working.

I am watching season 2 of Grey's Anatomy today. I don't feel like doing anything else.

Congratulations Nicole & Robert

Snapshots of the reception...


Cake


Mary, Nicole, Aprille, Robert & Eric


Matt & Cake


Tony, Nicole, Amy & Kenny


Kenny, Jerry & Erica


Leah


Michael


Team Stafford


The Hogbergs


Angela, Lisa & Belinda


Amy, Angie & Kenny


Aprille & Robert


Mark


Guy


Mindy's Hair & Matt

Dave Matthews Band

On Tuesday Kaiya, Ellen, Brian, Eric, Tish and I attended the Dave Matthews Band concert at the Pepsi Center. The Pepsi Center is a shitty concert venue, however, I think DMB live is incredibly enjoyable anywhere. The set list was superbly constructed. I truly enjoy the simplicity of their show. There is never any pomp and circumstance at the beginning of the show. They simply walk out on stage, set their shit up and begin playing. They have this incredible energetic chemistry. Its amazing to watch them jam off into a tangent. I have to imagine that those guys have to be so in-tuned with each other to be able to just improvise jams like that. From set opener to encore the show was just splendidly fun.

ahhhh but the fun was just beginning........

As we exited the grounds of the Pepsi Center the tour buses paraded passed us. The band members were waiving from the front windows of the bus. Concert goers were screaming and running after the bus. As we marched back to the car we all debated on where the band might be staying. We all agreed it was clearly at one of the upscale hotels downtown and left it at that. The six of us were crammed in the Crown Victoria on our way down Speer Blvd. when a tour bus passed us. Could it be? Someone from the back yelled to pull up closer to the back of the bus. Sure enough as we got closer we could see the unmistakable DMB fire dancer logo on the back of the bus.



I don't completely recall but I believe a few of us in the car screeched. This was followed by someone screaming "follow that fucking bus." Follow it, we did, right to The JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. It turned out that we had missed Dave who had arrived on another bus just minutes to our arrival. Oh well. We stood around with a few other over zealous fans and hoped to catch a glimpse of someone in the band. No luck. We headed home.

Back at home we saw Eric, Ellen and Brian off. Kaiya, Tish and I debated returning to the Marriott in hopes of bumping into Dave Matthews at the hotel bar. Before I knew it we were back in the Crown Vic heading towards Cherry Creek.

When we arrived back at the hotel we were stunned to find Carter Beauford, Rashawn Ross and Butch Taylor standing at the hotel entrance chatting with fans. Carter is the drummer, Rashawn is the trumpet player and Butch is the keyboardest. The men were more than happy to sign our tickets from the show.



They were also happy to have their pictures taken.


Tish & Rashawn


Kaiya & Carter


Tish , Carter, Me and my shit eating grin


Kaiya & Rashawn


Carter likes Kaiya

After our encounter with DMB fame we decided we needed a drink. The bar at the Marriott is very nice. We opted to sit outside where there is a giant fire pit. Around the fire pit sat a group of people. The group of people turned out to be roadies for DMB. They were bus drivers, the band chef, Boyd Tinsley’s pro tennis player, and various other DMB staffers. Soon after we arrived, Butch (the keyboardest), came down for a night cap. While Kaiya was chatting quite heavily with one of the bus drivers, Tish had struck up a conversation with Butch. Jr, one of the bus drivers, invited Kaiya and Suzette, Kaiya's friend who had joined us, to go with him on the tour bus to Chicago. Kaiya and Suzette accepted the invitation. I don't really think any of us really believed this invitation was real. We thought it to be cheeky drunk talk. As the night turned into the wee hours of the morning the group dwindled. In the end Kaiya, Suzette, Jr, Tish, Butch and I debated America's over consumption problem, the failure's of the Bush administration and the daily workings of the Dave Matthews Band. It was truly a night I will never forget.

WEDNESDAY
Kaiya and I attended DMB night 2 at Pepsi Center. I second show was better than the first show. The set list was completely different. They did not repeat one song. At encore, Kaiya and I raced through the halls to meet Jr at the back of Pepsi Center. We loaded Kaiya and Suzette's bags onto the tour bus and I hugged them goodbye. Kaiya and Suzette had just become Dave Matthews Band's newest roadies.

inappropriate Wisconsin types

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