There's a place up ahead that I'm going, just as fast as my feet can fly! Come away come away if you're coming, leave the sinking ship behind

If you know me very well, you know that I love oldies music. I was raised on it and I honestly think it is the best music out there. Anyways, there is a place out in Vienna Virginia (about 20 minutes from us) called Wolf Trap National Park. They have a HUGE outdoor amphitheater area and put on concerts and shows. We've been wanting to go, but tickets can be kind of pricey. BUT, we found out that CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revisited- not Revival, they haven't been since John Fogerty left the band years ago... but that's a different story). Basically, they are half of the original band and half of a cover band. Either way, CCR music is AMAZING and I really wanted to go. Then we discovered that instead of buying an expensive ticket, you can just buy a cheap general admission ticket to sit out on the lawn behind the amphitheater. I was sold!

Last night was the concert. It said that you could bring food, so we decided to treat ourselves and headed to Rockland's Barbeque to pick up some southern style bbq and root beers! The concert started at 8 and it said that seating was first come, first serve so we got there about 7:15 and it was completely packed! I mean the grass looked almost completely full. Luckily we were able to squish between some people and set up our blanket pretty close to the front. I had been a little nervous about bringing food in, but we had actually come under-prepared. Most people brought coolers full of fresh fruits and salads and bottle after bottle of wine! A swamp rock concert seemed a bit of a weird place for people to be bringing wine. We felt like we belonged a bit more with our pulled pork, fried okra and root beers! The weather was perfect for a picnic too.

The concert was great too. I love CCR music and Caleb and I agreed that they only played 1 song that we didn't know. I can't think of a more perfect night than picnicking out on the grass, dancing in barefeet and rocking out to some CCR music. Their last song of the night was Around the Bend, and the song starts by saying: "there's a place up ahead where I'm going, just as fast as my feet can fly! Come away, come away if you're comin', leave the sinkin' ship behind!" I love that song. And it was true, we left everything behind in DC and went out and had was felt like a perfect summer night at home relaxing and listening to good music. It was perfect.

Of course we got some good laughs out of it too. We can't decide who needs to work on their dance moves more, men over 50 or women over 50. Some of the people also probably should have taken it easy on the wine because they made serious fools out of themselves. There was one girl who insisted that everyone who walked past her had to twirl her - even men walking with their wives, small children, old men, security and policemen. Hilarious! We also got a really good laugh when they sang Fortunate Son with the lyrics "I aint no senator's son" and "I ain't no millionaire's son". We wondered to ourselves how many senator's and millionaire's sons there actually were jamming out to those lyrics....

We left in great moods, but its too bad they didn't last. The drive home should have taken 20 minutes tops. We got home 2 hours later. Apparently someone decided that Friday night would be a good time to literally close down every highway in and out of DC - 66 AND the Beltway especially. All of the 6 lane highways were closed down to 1 lane, all of the exits were closed and they forced everyone down one path. It was AWFUL. Words do not describe how angry I am at whoever made that decision - especially since we did not see anyone actually working on the construction. Oh well. I guess that's life in DC.

BUT Caleb and I weren't the only ones who had a fun weekend. This afternoon we took her to a swimming paw-ty with her pomeranian friends. The weather was real great, but there were probably 25 pom friends there. AND as an added bonus, Scarlett somehow talked Caleb into coming with us to the paw-ty. He's never felt cooler in his life!

I was pretty surprised that Scarlett wasn't a huge fan of the pool. We used to put her in the pool at my parents' house and she loved it! Maybe it was all the other dogs, the other people, or just a new environment, but she was not a huge fan and insisted on being with me the whole time. Since Caleb didn't feel like swimming with the dogs, he took a few pics for us!

 Look at what a good swimmer she is!!!

 Believe it or not she actually will jump in...

 Caleb's finger is in the way, but she's actually completely underwater in this shot after she jumped in. That's the tip of her tail out of the water haha

She chickened out after about 30 minutes of swimming (and started looking like a drowned rat), plus it really looked like rain, so we decided to pack up and come home. Scarlett is beat and Caleb and I need to get to bed early because tomorrow is my first day interning at the Pentagon and he is starting his new internship working for a House committee on Capitol Hill. It's crazy to say that is what we are actually doing. How did we get here? Oh well, bed time for us so we can be up and ready to serve our government in the morning : )