Under a Stormy Sky

The passing storm.

Today's moment of beauty was a no-brainer, but it was preceded by a lot of craziness. Let me start at the start. This morning I dropped the kids off at school then headed home to pack for our big trip to Albuquerque.  Nick and I were going to a concert, alone, and the kids would be with my parents.

Once I had the car loaded and Nick got home we rushed off to get the kids and headed south.  Pick up went smoothly and the kids fell asleep before to long, as did Nick, and we were on our way. Shortly before arriving at my parents house the trouble began. Tessie awoke to throw a giant fit and nothing we said could end the tears. We pulled into my parents drive with white knuckles. After getting the kids settled in we headed into the city for our big night out. Not long after merging onto the freeway we were caught in a torrential downpour. Luckily, Nick was at the wheel and I could just watch through one squinted eye. After almost being rear-ended, I'm talking sliding cars, we made it off the freeway. The rain was coming down so hard that the roads were rivers and we could barely find our hotel. We finally made it, checked in and headed upstairs to our room. What happened next? The elevator shorted out. We got stuck, really stuck, in an elevator.  For ten minutes we sat in the elevator with a girl from Gallup, New Mexico, while we waited for help to come. Oh, and the fan was broken.

Happily awaiting the show.

The stage.

They finally got the door open and we headed up to our room. Because of the storm, the shuttle we had been promised to the concert was running an hour behind. We decided to drive and made it to the venue without incident. We headed in to have a romantic dinner at the fancy casino restaurant only to discover there was a thirty minute wait. With only thirty minutes until the concert we didn't want to chance it do we headed to the buffet. After a slightly leas fancy, but yummy and filling dinner none-the-less, we headed out to the amphitheater.

While waiting for Big Head Todd to come on stage I looked at Nick and around at the beautiful post-storm New Mexico sky.  Although every child that walked by, hand-in-hand with their mom or dad, tugged at my heart a little, I was happy to be out with Nick, just the two of us.  After a chaotic day, to say the least, here I was with my husband, about to watch one of our favorite bands. And it wasn't hard to see the beauty at all.