I think even Christie Brinkley passed us in her Ferrari

I have to warn you, this is long....

Last week we received an email @ work, which was part of group mailing list for "Arts & Events". They were offering a coupon code to get discounted tickets to see The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Kennedy Center ($90 orchestra tickets going for $25). Of course my co-worker and I jumped at the chance and got ourselves tickets (the 2 of us plus her 2 boys).

The show was on Saturday, Dec 28th at 7:30 pm. She said she'd pick me up at 6 pm. She calls me from her cell and says there has been an accident on the road which caused a backup. So she arrives at 6:30pm. I was a bit nervous with the timeframe but no biggie.

We're chatting in the car and she mentions to me she and her husband used to go to the KC before the kids were born (her oldest is 11!!) but she remembers how to get there. Okay, I guess (even though we had no maps or GPS in the car!). So we make into DC with no problem whatsoever and at about 7:05. We're early!!! She says we have to get onto Whitehurst Pkwy and then to E Street. But we see the KC from the overpass and she just gets on a ramp, that goes around the KC and ends up in Rosslyn, VA!!!! (Sunshine, my friend, I was laughing inside remembering the day you guys were trying to get to the Verizon Ctr and could see it from the road and not get there).

So I say "I remember this area, we're close to the Iwo Jima memorial..." and there we see the Iwo Jima Memorial. I swear to you I felt like I was with Chevy Chase in the car. After that we just went around and around, finally made it back to the Natl mall, got to a ramp that seemed to go towards the KC and then got onto George Washington Pkwy on the way back to MD. OMG!!! I had to roll down the windows. I was starting to get hot and really nauseous.

Okay, so she calls her hubby (actually, her kid had already dialed the phone LOL) and we manage to get onto E Street - finally - but no KC, just the Watergate. Then we see a cab and the driver gives us better directions and at one point I see this entrance that says "John F Kennedy Center" and I started screaming "make a right here! here! here!" (LOL). At this point, we make into the drop-off location and we're afraid to move, but the parking lot is right ahead so we get in ($17.00 to park BTW!) at 7:27.

So we get to the theatre and we still had to get tickets at Will call (oh dear) but in the end we only missed the intro of the first song.

(A short intermission here before I start commenting the concert. Go freshen up!)

The concert was really good. It was a collection of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's shows. The first part of the show had many different shows. The second part was centered on Sunset Boulevard, Evita and Phantom of the Opera.This website posted the songs and some photos of the evening.

The Orchestra was really awesome, but a performer called Ron Bohmer really stole the show. His songs were spot on and he hit notes I had no idea a man could do. Especially the Phantom songs.

There were a couple of performers there that - seriously - I don't know how they got the job. I mean, I was ready to pull the mic from their hands. It got to a point that I stopped applauding altogether.

(Okay, show is over. You might want to use the bathroom before we head home)

Now we're back in the car and I start to sweat. But we made it safely to Clara Barton Pkwy. I let out a sigh of relief since it's the way I come home from work when I drive in. I just had to be sure to tell her when to make a left so we could make it back to the beltway. Oh, yeah, she got off the wrong exit to bring me home. Thankfully, it just made the trip 5 minutes longer. We made it home alive.

But next time, I'M DRIVING! (and with a GPS just in case)