Day 507 - Oct 18, 2009

Yep, Anne - it was Kevin's favorite band - Atreyu! Sharrin, from Hollywood Records, called us the other day and was so excited because the band was going to be in San Antonio last night. When I said the stars were all lined up for this it was because she was going to wait until next week to call us as the band was going to be in Orlando next Friday and they were going to invite us out to see them. But, something compelled her to read the blog and catch up before calling and that's when she saw we were in SA! And even funnier - our hotel is right across a side street from where they were playing!

So yesterday afternoon Kevin, Breezy and I went to their sound check and that was the photo you saw last night. It was so cool to be part of something that so few rarely get to see and Kevin was ecstatic! After they were finished with sound check, they invited us all into their tour bus to visit for a while. How cool is that?!

Here are a few photos of the afternoon:

This one is Marc's amazement at how far Kevin has come since seeing us last December. He waited til Kevin turned around to show his shock. Love this photo!



Here we are with Brandon before sound check. We don't get many pics of the three of us so I wanted to throw this one in.



Kev and the band:



This is Kevin and Alex:



Kevin smiling, lol.



Kevin enjoying the music.



This is us going into their tour bus:



I have to tell you - these guys are so awesome.

So after sound check, we let them relax before the show and we went to dinner and then Kevin and I went back for the concert. I really didn't think Kevin was going to be able to handle it, but he wanted to go so we did. He did so well! We had the opportunity to stand right up front, but I know what these concerts are like so we stayed in the gated area that had the sound and lights board. This way no one could accidentally grab the tube in his head or even just hurt him in some other way. I'm such a mom, huh? LOL.

And here is a pic of Kevin and the guys 'posing' after the concert. We went to say goodbye and I just had to get a group photo!



But anyway, he did fantastic! I will say that this day just plain exhausted him though, but I would hazard a guess that Kevin felt it was worth it. I know I did because he was just grinning from ear to ear all day!

And unbelievably, we both slept 11 hours last night. We only got up twice for pills so it was a great night for sleep. I am thinking we should just become groupies so that Kevin sleeps better, lol. (although my ears could NEVER handle that! I so don't 'get' screamo music!)

And today we went to Target for some food and we came back to the hotel and sat outside all afternoon. Kevin played games on his Zune (thankfully it came back from downrange), Breezy played Farmville on her laptop and I read a book. And they have grills here to cook on so we BBQed and just stayed in all night.

A very nice, relaxing day!