Well, it changed from cool rain to hellish humidity almost instantaneously about a week ago. To celebrate, we went to see much live music at various venues and sometimes to our own surprise.
Thursday night we went to a free concert on a nearby beach. The special thing about this was that Kate has made a friend in the owner of a house that neighbors the public beach. This gives us a nice place to park, a nice place to sit and watch the crowd of people listening to the music, I nice place to listen to the music ourselves, and a nice barbecue off of which to eat yummy beef patties grilled to perfection.
Friday night we went to Carson's, which has free outside music on the street with dinner! This time it was Dixieland. And it was good. And the burritos were very good. Sitting out there, it seems like everything is right with the world.
Saturday night we went to Newport to meet up with a few friends. Of course, there was a band. There was a whole mess with a cover charge that went from $10 to $20 as we sat eating our dinner. People who eat at the restaurant still have to pay the cover for some strange reason (called greed, I believe). They blocked off the staircase leading down into the area where the band was playing so there was no way to sneak in, unless you scuba'd up to the place. In any case, while some of our crowd headed downstairs to pay the cover and dance by the stage, we mellowed upstairs on the porch, which, by the way, had a perfect view of the band. We drank drinks and voiced our voices as the band played cover songs that sounded remarkably like the originals. As we left, we noticed the cover had risen to $30.
On Sunday we were walking around a little shopping center and as we wandered in and out of the stores, a band set up and started to play. We didn't even stop to listen as we hurried back to the car with our huge chopping block and wooden seamen. I wouldn't have thought it could happen, but maybe there is such a thing as "too much live music."
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