WHAT A WONDERFUL FRIDAY!

Well - the journal is up to its old tricks of not wanting to save my posts so I'm going to try this one.

Last night we went to see the Louise Mandrell show in Pigeon Forge.  They are doing their Christmas show and Ashley and Jill, our friends who are in the show gave us two "comp" tickets and we went - what a wonderful night.

Ryan had gotten all his "girls", Ashley, Jill, Jennifer, Turner and of course, Louise, a little gift for Christmas and some flowers for all of them.  He was so proud to send them back stage when we went to pick up our tickets.

We ate at the Alabama Grill, right next door to Louise's theatre.  The food there is good, but we both tried something new and it wasn't nearly as good as we thought it would be, so dinner was a little disappointing.

Found our seats, center section about 9 rows from the front - awesome seats - and the theatre was FULL.

After the show, all the girls came out and surprised Ryan with a gift from them to him!  They gave him a picture of the four of them in their Christmas costumes that they had taken just for him - an "orignal" if you please, AND a DVD of the show (which I had almost ordered) AND a gift card to TGI Fridays which he LOVES to eat at, and THEN - just to top off the night, Louise herself came out and personally thanked him for her gift and flowers, and game him a big hug.  He reminded her of when her birthday was then they exchanged "high fives" and another hug.

Then the girls gave Ryan their hugs and I got mine too, and then we started home, with a promise to stay in touch after Louise's show closes down on the 31st.  I will miss this show so much.  Ryan talked all the way home about his picture, his DVD and went over all the shows they girls had been in and all the songs they had sung.

Today I spent most of the day in bed - coming down with a bad cold I'm afraid.  Have to teach CCD tomorrow - hope I feel better.

Peace