Our new mission statement for the site....laughin' while fightin' breast cancer and "URBAN"IZING the world one visitor at a time....

It might interest you to know that Susan and her friends have traveled all over the United States following this man.  They've seen him in concert too many times to count. 

Susan is a member of his fan club.  Seriously.  She has a little card in her wallet that says so.

No, we are not 15 years old.  Keith Urban just makes us act like we are....

Turn off your cell phones, girls, and don't look back, girls - just don't look back.
We hit the road as soon as Susan finished changing the oil.
After a weekend of hangin' out in the South, we are not surprised that Susan's Yankee friends were inspired to write a poem...
Well, we went down South,
Brenda has a big mouth.

We couldn't get backstage,
but Brenda almost was put in the cage.

Brenda had a few slips,
thank God, she didn't take the big dip.

We're back at home
and are inspired to write this poem

Signing off for now,
but to sum it up in one word...."WOW".

our boyfriend keith!
nice to meet ya.  left to right:  mary, brenda, susan, terri, debbie, tracie, heather, laura.  here we are.  at keith's concert.  actin' crazy.
susan, cryin'.  brenda and terri just walked in - what a surprise!!
Keith Time Line!!!!
OK, everyone has been asking for more info on the concert…her you go!!

Saturday the 19th.
Girls want to leave at 10:30 am.  I am thinking Concert is SUNDAY PEOPLE.  I almost called them at 9am to say lets leave at about noon.  Thank goodness I didn’t. That would have been a disaster-they would have been doing some serious back pedaling.  I will tell you why in minute.  So, we leave at 10:45 heading for Greenville and our buddy Keith. 

We are riding in 2 cars.  The sensible car with Tracie at the wheel, Laura and Heather.  The unsensible car, Mary driving, Susan and Deb sightseeing.  I am trying to put on my makeup in the mirror.  Like that is going to help any, for I am a bit ‘pasty’ according to some sources.  Tracie calls and says lets go to the Mexican restaurant at Pelham road for a margarita and lunch.  Sounds great.

11:45Sitting in the restaurant drink’n, eat’n, laugh’n.  Everyone is quite relaxed and behaving themselves.  But what does my wondering eye see, Ms. Tracie starring at the door and I turn around to see-HOLY CRAP-it is my 2 very bestest friends from Hoosierville-Indiana that is.  I am speechless.  I haven’t cried really this whole breast cancer thing, but Yes, I did cry when they came in.  The flew in from Indy to go to the concert with us-yippee!!!  It was so cool.  My husband Jeff, is the best ever!!!!  He always knows what I need!!  After things got settled down and everyone was introduced to each other- I took a step back and thought-OH MY GOSH!  I have friends from childhood who know all my stupid stuff, my friends from my grown up reserved life, and my sister-in-law.  What was I in for.  I calmly said to my friends from Clinton, you all know that everything just got kicked up a notch-BAM!

Well, the rest of the day we shopped, laughed, ate, normal joe of a day.  Sunday however, was not normal!

SUNDAY, the 20th

We eat breakfast.  I go back to bed-a bit tired you know from all the excitement.  Two groups head out all to go shopping but somethings take a turn.  At about 3 I wake up and call Tracie in the car to come pick me up and to go meet the crazy ass group down at Smoke on the Water restaurant in West End.  Well, when Mary, Tracie, Laura and I get there we realize Brenda, TP, Heather and Deb have had the bar stools warm and cozy for awhile.  Like always Brenda had found out the ins and outs of the bartender, his life story you know.  The restaurant was quiet, but we were not.  I personally had to order a beer just to be able to handle the decibles. 

4:00  Shift Change new barender-Stacey is on duty-Bless his heart.  We ordered food while Brenda sang, “Stacey’s mom has got it goin’ on!”  Do you know that song-hilarious.  We ate, met some really great people.  A marathon runner and his GRANDMOTHER that I promise you looked like a beautiful 40 year old women!!  Maybe runn’n is good for you or something.  Ya, we kept throwing down the beer and laugh’n.  OH NO, time to go.  It is 5:00 need to get to KEITH!!!!  Amazing how we can get sidetracked!!

The Concert!!!
OH my gosh-2nd row!!!  We had to sets of tickets.  The lucky ones who actually knew Keith were Tracie, Deb, Laura and myself.  TP, Mary, Brenda and Heather were back a bit but still good seats-I think! Ha!  I didn’t care really I was in the 2nd row.  Tracie, Deb and Laura were beside themselves-they could not believe how close we were.  A die hard fan was in front of us with Kieth’s signature tattooed on her back and monkey’s hang’n all over her, I realized at that point-I was not quite the obsessed fan I though I was.  This girl hit it out of the park.  At one point, she turned around to us and actually said, “ He just looked at me and noticed I got my hair cut!”  That is not right! 

My friends did everything they could to get me on stage.  But to know avail.  They held up a sign that said, “Bald is Beautiful”-there is a bald guy in the band.  Keith, however, didn’t get a glimpse of it.  They tried their best.  During the concert Brenda and TP were frantically trying to make connections with the ‘inner circle’ of Keith to get me backstage, but again, to no avail.  It is enough that a friend of mine stood talking to a police officer with her shoes off trying to convince him her breast cancer friend susan NEEDS to see Keith.  Ha!  That is friendship!! 

So the concert is over and we are worn slap out!!!!  Go back to the hotel-watch a bit of football in the lounge-the Colts you know are kicking butt!!  So that is about it.  Tracie, Laura and Mary drove home to Clinton that night-work you know on Monday.  Deb, TP, Brenda and I stayed for the Hoosier girls had to fly out at 6am!  Wow! 

All in all it was a blast.  I must say that yes, I will meet Keith someday and I will be his new best friend he just doesn’t know it yet!!!!
~ Susan