Dadcation
Months ago, we realized Columbus Day weekend meant the children had a few days out of school and that it coincided with my mother-in-law’s 70th birthday, and she wanted her daughters and their families to get together somewhere for a weekend of fun, but we also realized we’d miss seeing Twenty-One Pilots in Atlanta if we were out of town that weekend, but then we additionally realized the band would play in Greenville the preceding evening and that Greenville is on the way to Asheville, which is where…
Traveling and seeing live music are 2 of my favorite activities. Three Father’s Days ago, I saw Kenny Rogers at Chastain. Last year, we toured Hiroshima. Two years ago, we saw U2 in Philadelphia–combining both loves in a Father’s Day extravaganza. In that vein, we loaded up the Model X and drove a couple hours west to Birmingham, Alabama last Saturday afternoon, pulling into my friend Jim Bob’s Mountain Brook driveway just after 5pm for a holiday weekend of nostalgia and music. The grownups spent Fathers Eve having…