Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year!!!!!

We are home from our New Years Eve gig already. I think this might be the best one ever. It was a short concert with a good friend of ours so it was fun and we got home at 10:00. Amazing! We get to celebrate together at home for a change.

This got me thinking about past New Years Eve gigs. Doug has always worked on New Years Eve so I'm pretty used to not ringing in the new year with him. We always see each other later. There were two particularly lonely years when one or the other of us was working on a cruise ship over the holidays. For me it was harder when I was on the ship and he was home than the other way around.

In recent years we've actually played some gigs together. The first time we were playing in two different groups, but in the same hotel so we carpooled down to DC. We worked up in Baltimore with our friend Bob Fields a couple of times. In 2000 we played with the Artie Shaw band in a casino in Tunica, MS at a place called Bluesville. The next year we played at the Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels.

During the time we were on the road, the NYE gigs became more sporadic. Sometimes Doug would have one and sometimes I would. But we've never both been off at the same time, until this year. So it's time to crack open the champagne now. Happy New Year!!!

3 comments:

rachaelgking said...

Happy New Year, Cyndy! We spent it from our couch as well, and it couldn't have been better. :-)

Barbara said...

Happy New Year! So glad you could spend it together. And what were you doing writing a post at 10:30 on New Year's Eve?!

May 2009 be the year of the housewarming. I will bring the champagne!

Cyndy said...

LiLu - We spent ours, um, not on our couch!

Barbara - at 10:30 Doug was fixing some things to go with our champagne. I'll definitely be looking forward to your bottle of housewarming champagne!