so good to see you in this country!

so, big story!

tuesday night, left work around 5:45pm, went to a member's only (read: private) club called adam's street (www.adamstreet.co.uk) for a work party. very cool little shin-dig. launch party for the awards ... a lot of networking, free booze, the usual.

left the party early around 8pm to "pick a friend up from the airport"... actually went to camden town to the barfly to see mr. gavin degraw! haha. ;) tina, on the other hand, actually DID go to heathrow to pick up our darling lil' becky, who arrived just after 9pm. they frantically tried to get to the show in time, but ended up missing the whole thing. i, however, caught every glorious note!!!

the barfly's very small, comparable to the Iota in arlington... small, but soldout, crowd... very very into the degraw-ster. :) i think i was the person most into the show, of course. excellent show, pretty standard setlist, but everyone knew every word, which was cool.

so i meet up with tina and the beckster as the crowd's clearing out... we head downstairs to the main bar... run into joey degraw (gavin's brother and guitarist) he was really sick, looked horrible. clutching a packet of theraflu mix... asked him where gavin is, pointed at the bar.

so we get some drinks, sit down, catch up, wait for the mob around gavin to disappear... it looked as if he was heading towards the exit so i run over to say hi... stand next to him as some dude drools all over him, then suddenly (cue music change), he looks over...

me: 'hey gavin! great show as usual!'
him: 'woah! hey! what are you doing here???'
me: 'i live here now!'
him: 'wait wait wait, don't i know you from... i mean, you're from... huh?'
me: 'yeah, i met you 10 billion years ago in DC'
him: 'yeah yeah, wow that's great! i can't believe you're here! wow thanks for coming out!!!'
*big hug*

so i dragged my future husband over to tina and becky, and for the first time in our three year love affair, i actually got a picture with him!! :) it will be up soon, rest assured. then as we left, got ANOTHER big hug from gavin, and he said 'so great to see you in THIS country!'... he's coming back to perform on may 31st. the wedding announcements will go out shortly thereafter.

going to brighton tomorrow, four day weekend for the BRITISH!!! :) wooooo hooo!

~courtney

"You'll be my vacation away from this place
You know what I want..."
~g.d.