Mr Poopers Day Out

Saturday night was the Gold Dust Gala. This is a fund raiser for a charity that helps people who are ill with cancer but do not have insurance or the funds to pay for the treatments to save their lives.  We try to raise enough money so that no one is turned away. No one should die because they can’t afford life saving treatments. NO ONE.

I didn’t get as many pictures as I normally would have for two reason, 1. I was selling raffle tickets (Vangundy & Son’s Jewelry store had donated a 1ct Hearts On Fire diamond pendant & you could buy raffle tickets to win it) & 2. My mother in law told me that I was not allowed to take pictures of Emerson Drive per their contract. *insert sad face here* But I respected that because they were here for a great cause and it’s about saving people’s lives, not about my pictures.

That said…

There is actually a new album coming out this summer I believe, they had just finished it 4 days prior & played for us some of their new tracts. Just getting better with every album!

Their violinist was quite excellent & super smiley! I believe he smiled like this the whole way through the concert. It’s nice to see entertainers that you can tell really love what they do.

There are some bands that sound great on CD, and that’s where they should stay, in the studio.  Emerson Drive is not one of those bands. They sound exactly the same from the stage as they do from my Ipod. I was seriously impressed.  They were patient when the crowd of middle aged sloshed women started acting stupid, and were extremely gracious & humble. I would definitely recommend seeing these guys in concert it’s a great time!

All the band members were very cute men, (short but still cute) I loved that the keyboardist & the drummer made faces at each other all night. We had great seats, right up in front. This was the last song & everyone rushed the stage (not our table) and with all the cameras & phones flashing off my MIL gave me the thumbs up & I snapped a few pictures myself. Only a few because the strobe was way bigger than any of their little power shot cameras and it was DEFINITELY noticed by the band O_O Sorry!

The family & I were lucky enough to be gifted with meet & greet passes to have our picture taken with the band. It was quite neat! I felt like such an extreme dork, what do you say to people you admire & enjoy their work but don’t KNOW?  Try it, it’s a little weird. But they were very humble & quite gracious. After the concert they stayed & signed autographs for EVERYONE who wanted to. How crazy is that? Granted we were not a large venue, but it was quite impressive for a band to do that. 

Megan is much more adventurous than I am. He is wearing one of the Gold Dust Gala hats.

All in all it was a wonderful event. We all had such a lovely time!  Matt, unfortunately, did not get to take his picture with the band because he was recruited early on to do security. He used to do that all the time in high shool and college for big time bands.   That’s what happens when you are a big man I guess

We didn’t end up getting home until about 2am. Afterwards we went out for cocktails with the Vangundy clan and terrorized a poor college student who was waiting on us.  I have to say, My Florist in Ventura would not be on my list of places to go again. Order desert. That’s the only thing that saved that restaurant.  DO NOT order Chips & Salsa. The “Chips” are hardened, baked, overly hot (NOT spicy, just HOT) pieces of baguette and they seem to come with EVERYTHING. These things literally burned the skin off our fingers. Order desert!