A special hello...

I just wanted to say a hello to a 'fan' of this blog - I know! and I though no-one really read this. So a big hello to (drum roll please) Meg Beckstead! Taylor was telling me that you had enjoyed my ramblings thus far, I am so happy to hear that, although I must apologize for the swearing in the Spice Girls video below (I had no idea until Taylor told me). Anyways we are so excited to see you and Taylor next week and hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas!

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert

On Friday night we were lucky enough to be able to attend the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert. It was so awesome and I feel so luck that we were able to go, we had registered for tickets a whole bunch of times, i think we must've had at least 7 or 8 people register to try and get tickets (they just get sent out randomly) and nobody did. Then at the last minute Tracy, Anna's sister, got given some tickets and invited us to go!!! Yippee. I wish we had been able to get more tickets as we had some friends that really wanted to go also but what can you do. This year the special guests were the King Singers ( a six piece acapella group from Cambridge - UK). They were wonderful and the choir was in great voice. My favorite song was '12 Days of Christmas' as they had the Ballet dept from the U perform during that song, so by the end of the song there were a bunch of dancers each representing the different days, my explanation isn't very good but to quote Tracy "I'd buy the DVD just for that!". It really was a great concert and left us with a wonderful Christmasy feeling, which soon dissipated when we had to get out of the car park!

Now you can experience the show too....

So I was looking on youtube and found some videos of the concert we went to but they weren't great quality so i found some from a show in LA and thought i'd post my favorite ones.

Wannabe



Let Love Lead The Way



2 Become 1



Spice Up Your Life

We're Back

We are back from Vegas and let me tell you, we had a great time. The concert was awesome, I think that I enjoyed it more than Anna, but that's no surprise! So let me tell you we had a bit of a nightmare getting into the concert, the line was super long and took forever, which meant the concert started 1 1/2 hours late. Which isn't too much of a problem other than we didn't really fit in with the rest of the crowd, lots of young clubby people, lots of men dressed as Spice Girls, lots of rather trashy young ladies and then me and Anna!! So we got to sit there and people watch for a while (which is fun in and of itself) whilst waiting. Onto the show - I thought they did a great job. They looked great, danced great and sang great. They sang all of their well known songs and each did a solo spot (which for Victoria turned out to be her strolling down a catwalk - pouting). It was just a good fun show and really entertaining, I still think Emma is the best (hence the pic) but the others were good too. My favorite was 'Who Do You think You Are' as they styled it so that they wore their 'character' outfits (Union Jack Dress for Geri, tracksuit for Mel C etc). I also thoroughly enjoyed 'Stop' and '2 become 1'. They ended with 'Wannabe' (people went crazy) and 'Spice Up Your Life' (during which they did a little River dance). Basically I loved it and then made Anna listen to their CD all the way home, bring on the DVD. It was also really nice to get home and hang out with little monkey girl, it's quite sad that we both missed her as much as we did (we really need a baby!). In short we had a great weekend and really just relaxed and enjoyed ourselves.

I'm a Spice Boy, kinda...

So here we are in wonderful Las Vegas waiting to go and see The Spice Girls! The concert starts in 4 hours and I can't tell you how excited I am. I last saw the Spice Girls in Manchester in 1999, after Geri had left, at the 'Christmas in Spiceworld' concert - which was awesome! So this time we get to see all 5 girls and have a wonderful trip down memory lane. My favorite Spice is Emma (Baby), I don't really know why, other than I think she has a very sweet voice (incidentally she has released 3 rather super CD's since the Spice days - and I hear that she will be singing some solo stuff too). I will be posting a follow up to this post after we have seen the show, so look out for that.
It's also really fun being in Vegas, we have just been relaxing and shopping (Anna's fave store - H&M is here now). Las Vegas is nice and Christmasy, we watched the fountains at Bellagio 'perform' to "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas". It's also fun just hanging out with my lovely Anna (who is napping at present), we have had an interesting year so it's fun to just be together and get away from things a little. That being said we are really missing George, who is staying with Anna's parents, especially as she has a sore belly at the moment. Well I'll sign off now as I want to nap prior to the concert too!