My Dear Husband did what any man would do when he heard that George Strait and Reba were headed to the area. He bought his country loving wife tickets to the show!! Let me tell you, it was the best concert I think I have ever seen! I never thought I would ever get to see them individually let alone together. It was a dream come true!
The concert was in Louisville on Saturday night. We left Lexington around 5 pm and got to Louisville where we ate dinner at California Pizza Kitchen (yum). Then we headed downtown to the brand new KFC Yum! Center home to the Louisville Cardinals (Boo). The building is state-of-the-art and it's beautiful.
Here we are headed into the concert
Leann Womack opened the show, we got there just in time to hear her sing "I Hope You Dance" and one or two more. I don't really care all that much about her music, but everyone knows that song.
It was just a short while later that Reba graced us with her presence and man can that woman perform!! I'm pretty sure she sang almost all of her 35 #1 hits, or at least it seemed that way. She put on a full concert and totally lived up to all the hype I've heard about how amazing her concerts are. My one wish that didn't come true is I wanted George to come out and sing, "If You See Him/If You See Her" with Reba that she originally did with Brooks and Dunn in 1998, but no such luck :( However, Leann came back out to sing, "Does He Love You" that Reba did with Linda Davis in 1993 and it was pretty awesome!! And of course Reba's encore was Fancy where she came out in a red dress and brought the house down!
Reba and Leann "Does He Love You"
During the break between Reba and George we got to see a piece of Kentucky's finest nearly battle it out over a little spilt beer. The F-bomb was flying all over the place, but peace was resorted and The King of Country was up next!!
One fine looking man!!!
I mean can anyone argue with the above statement that George Strait is a gorgeous human being?!?! Even if he is almost 60 years old, he has still got the good looks that he was blessed with. And he was not a disappointment on Saturday when he came out in his Wranglers, button down shirt and black cowboy hat...mmmm!!! George sang just about every song I could think of. If you don't know he has 57 #1 hits!!! So I don't think he sang all of them, but he picked all the good ones. I got extremely excited when he said, "We've had a lot of number one hits because of my wonderful fans, this isn't one of them, but it's still my favorite." When Amarillo By Morning started and the crowed when nuts I had to lean over to the stranger next to me and tell her that I am from there!! She probably thought I was crazy! I know my husband looked at me like I crazy at the point :)
George sang for almost 2 hours! We got home around 1:30 am extremely exhausted, but it was totally worth it!
Thank you Aaron for a night I will never forget, I love you!
