After a big day around the house, we headed to Gerry and Marci’s around 4:30. We met them and headed to Splendido at 5 for dinner. Dinner was great as usual as it’s the best restaurant in the valley. We had the restaurant give us the short 2 minute ride to the Vilar for the show after we ate. We walked in and made our way to our box about one minute before the show started.
Not sure how many of you know Boz Skaggs but the show was amazing! He was an original member of The Steve Miller Band and played with numerous other great guys also. He’s 79 now but you would have never known. He sounded as good as he did in the 70’s and his band was full of great players. Gerry and Marci’s seats are probably the best in the 550-seat venue. They have box seats on the right side of the stage that are the closest you can get to the artists in the whole place. He played for almost 2 hours and it was probably the best show we’ve seen up here in Vail.
When walking out, we were looking for our ride which wasn’t right out front. Everyone up here knows everyone, especially in the Vilar crowd, so a couple saw us and yelled, “come on, we’ll all jump in our car”. So six of us made our way into a Jeep Wagoneer and headed back to the restaurant where we left our car. Lori and I didn’t know these people, but turns out, the wife is head of the Vilar, which is the venue where all the shows up here are. It’s all subsidized by donations from wealthy people in the valley so big name acts can be brought in. After the two minute ride, they insisted we come in for a drink. These people knew everyone, and it was clear they were very important people as everyone was coming up to them basically kissing their ass. They were the nicest people and we really hit it off. Lori was looking lovely as always as and the wife was genuinely so happy to meet us and when some other billionaire came over to the table, she introduced Lori as Lovely Lori. They were super sweet, nice and down to earth. We exchanged info and she said, we’re going to put all your wine in the Vilar right away, so there’s that too.
After about an hour we made it back to our car at Gerry and Marci’s and headed home. We made it home around 10:30. We found out after calling Jag that he drove Ty to Frisco so he could catch the bus to Denver to go down last night to stay with Maddie. I’ll pick him up tomorrow and this saved me a trip today. Today we’re working around the house and slept in to 6:30 which was nice as it was 11:30 when we went to sleep.
Have a great day, almost halfway through the month. Be well, stay safe and God Bless.
