After the Fallon wedding extravaganza, an awesome weekend in Manhattan, and seeing Mumford & Sons, this week flew by entirely way too fast. I mean, I guess that’s a good thing. We’re down to 10 weeks until Shane is on his way home to me!
So, from the rehearsal dinner at an awesome Greek restaurant to getting brunch with the newlyweds on Sunday before catching my flight, seeing Liz and Devin get hitched after nine years of dating was incredible. Yes, they started dating when it was still acceptable to like the Backstreet Boys. Liz and I would know; we saw them together many moons ago.
Liz and I have known each other since middle school, but became really close when we both wrote for Hightstown High School’s award-winning newspaper, The Ram Page. As co editors-in-chief our senior year, we were the coolest kids in school. Not just anyone could get a permanent hall pass and drive to Princeton to pick up the paper from the press and eat pancakes during school hours. Jealous? You should be. I should also note we both drove (and still drive) yellow cars. Definition of awesome, right there.
Anyway, Liz is the first of my friends to be a married lady. I made the corny joke that we went from being eds-in-chief to weds-in-chief. Yep, seriously. Here we are, all grown up:
And, they're so damn cute, Mr. and Mrs. Fallon get a picture too!
So, the rest of my weekend was awesome as well. After shaking off a hangover courtesy of the open bar at the wedding, I met up with my Mom’s family Saturday afternoon for lunch at a Malaysian restaurant. We spent the afternoon exploring Central Park and Brooklyn, and then I went out Saturday night with my cousin Mike and friend Rachel.
When leaving our last bar of the night, I kid you not, I walked passed the dude who plays Benjamin Linus in LOST. Yes, the city was filled with people in costumes, but this was the real-live Ben. I smiled, he smiled back, giving me the look of “I know you know who I am.” Exciting!
Sunday I was hesitant to get on my plane back to Texas. Thanks to a handful of good friends I have here, I ultimately decided it’d be dumb to miss my flight. It was just so nice being in New York, that the very thought of Killeen made me want to die a little. But only 10 more weeks to go on my own here isn’t so bad I guess.
Well, I could probably dedicate an entire post to last night’s Mumford & Sons show at Stubb’s, because it really was THAT amazing. But I'll just make this a long and random post. Here's a little background on my love for these guys. Two and a half years ago, I went to see Laura Marling at the Mercury Lounge to review the show for my internship at The Aquarian. This was at the time in my life where I started to love the indie folk/acoustic genre scene. British accents were a plus.
I was blown away by the band that opened for Marling- this little-known band called Mumford & Sons. They also served as Marling’s backing band. Until their first full-length dropped at the beginning of this year, I often went to the band’s MySpace page, just to listen to a couple of the songs I remembered from that night.
So when tickets went on sale for an Austin show, my friend Cathy was on it and got a pair of tickets asap. Mumford & Sons sold out every show on their current headlining tour of the States, and it’s no wonder why. This band is amazing. They have put out my favorite album of the entire year (Yes, I think it may even beat Gaslight’s American Slang but it’s up for debate) and it has helped keep me company more than any other album all deployment.
I rank last night’s show somewhere in my Top 10 shows ever- seriously. I found a video of "The Cave" from last night at Stubb's, which is one of Austin's renowned venues (Also where I saw Regina Spektor the night Shane proposed!). The quality isn’t that awesome, but you can get a sense of why it was one of those shows you continue to think about for days to come. Check it out below!
I’ll wrap up this crazy long post by noting that it is the anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting. Most of you reading this know it was Shane’s unit who was hit the hardest, and that a couple of his friends were victims of the tragedy. I had a whole post in mind to dedicate to the anniversary, but I can’t handle it right now. I’m running a 5K on Saturday in memory of those killed and wounded, and Fort Hood will have events going on all day long. Maybe I’ll find the right words to say sometime over the weekend, if at all.
Also, thanks for all of the support and to those of you who continue to follow this blog! :-)
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