THANKS MOM! THANKS RICK! from (us!) sandra & keeshie (original post june 1st, 2012)
well that was sure FUN!!
just back from our first visit ever to cache creek casino
and despite how it appears -my sister and i did not talk in advance about what we would wear
so we laughed write away, when i pulled up at her house -and realized we had done it AGAIN!
same style.. even similar color pattern; different fabrics.
you can easily see a history of fashion trends in our sister picture album.. from long leggings/blouses to your knees days (1980's)
to 2009's, long cotton solid-colored shells layered beneath v-neck sweaters with jeans n' boots.
anyway.. first want to thank rick for getting us there safely.. because cache creek is like an hour and a half away (that's all i know, by the way.. if you ask me where cache creek is.. "an hour and a half from here" -and i know you take 680.. to some other highway.. and two more highways after that.. and it's a pretty drive after you get through the horrendous traffic.. especially this time of year.. oh! the vibrant green rolling hills, tree orchards.. spectacularly open land, blue skies)
and thank rick for a wonderful/delicious mexican dinner, at the gorgeous mexican cantina restaurant...
and thank them both.. mom and rick.. for helping us navigate through the casino.. learn the ropes (how to get the rope with the free $25 casino card into the .50 slot machines; add $20; play.)
and i SWEAR to you.. ask my mom.. i said (i knew!) during dinner.. i looked at my sister, gaver her arm a little rub.. "she's going to win something"
AND SHE DID! $140. wouldn't even had realized if not for her slot machine neighbor giving her a hit on her shoulder which initially scared her "what?!"
"good hit!"
"OH!" my sister says.. "how'd i do that?"
and really, how fun & wonderful is that.. sitting down, getting $140 for pushing a button a few times
actually, she had a special pattern.. because you can push a button OR pull a knob, and so she went: push, push, pull. push, push, pull. -and that's how you win $140.
try it.
or my mom's way.. which is push, push (i don't think she pulls) -and she won over $50 dollars in under 10 mintues
i can see how this becomes addictive.
i, on the other hand, got caught up in the lights, bells, and pretty pictures.. how pretty IT WOULD BE if they all lined up.. how pretty it COULD BE
HOW FRUSTRATING it is when they ALMOST line up, but the pretty diamond on the left is just a fraction too high.. the pretty diamond on the write is just a fraction too low... the one in the middle is perfect
and if they could all just follow along with the perfect guy in the middle, i would not be posting this blog write now, i'd be putting a down payment on 306 neal!
anyway..
the whole reason we were there in the first place, is because my sister probably whispered one day in passing, about 5 or 10 ten years ago, that she liked the band, night ranger
and our mom has this super-power i call, "mom's superpower" -which she uses to hear, to retain, and to make manifest, almost any desire her children and/or grandchildren happen to mention
so when she saw that night ranger was performing at cache creek, i'll bet she stopped everything she was doing, to get online and get tickets
and my sister would need a friend to go with her, write..
and so, since my sister was my friend, when my mom treated me to hawaii, as a college graduation present
i got to be her friend, when my mom wanted to treat her to see one of her favorite rock bands live at cache creek
(you can see there are great benefits to being best friends with your siblings when you have a mom with superpowers like ours...)
and need to triple thank our mom here, because she got us the ABSOLUTE BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE! (emphasis on seats... because initially we were in the standing room area, which is closer to the stage, and would have been awesome when we were 23, 26.. but at almost 40, and 43.. seats; we need seats. -and she made a few extra calls to make sure we had seats)
so if you ever go to cache creek for a live concert at intimate club 88.. try and get seats in the 501 area. first.. you are situated higher than the people in front of you, so you have a near perfect, and completely unblocked view of the performers, and second -you have a table area directly in front of you, so a place to kick your feet up and put your drinks down
-heaven!
and they were wonderful -night ranger- i love live music in general.. but to be here with my sister, who is a big fan.. and to witness them be as great as entertainers as they are rock n' roll musicians..
huge treat!
we danced, wiggled and sang along when we knew the words.. and my sister knows all the words to sister christian
and that's the one song she was most excited to hear performed live
sister christian..
and i could see her in anticipation every time one song ended and a new one began..
is this going to be sister christian?
maybe this one will be sister christian..
okay..this one.. this one should be sister christian..
and of course, true to the nature of rock concerts performed throughout the world
they never play THE ONE SONG you came to hear
they play a few favorites from days gone by... they play a few new originals...
they play a few copies from bands you know and love
but never THAT ONE SONG you came to hear
and so i watched my sister's shoulders fall to her waist when they thanked the crowd and the curtains fell
i watched her look at me with disbelief
i watched her stand up, raise her hands in the air, and start shouting "sister christian!" really loud; over and over again...
i watched the entire audience do the same thing..
while i just sat patiently waiting, clapping, waiting some more, for the encore.
sure enough..
one at a time, the band members start returning to the stage.. the crowd goes WILD!
the lead singer says, "i know that you know, that you know, that i know.. there's a few songs we haven't played yet.."
and when they play the first few cords of sister christian -feels like a 4.2 earthquake inside the intimate club 88 at cache creek
the audience sings the whole song, with the band serving only as back-up
awesome audible experience!
FUN... EXCITING.. FABULOUS... FANTASTIC..
and they perform one more.. rocking america.. i think it was..
and then the concert is really, truly, over, and we all leave much more filled up with life, love, hope and happiness than before we came
THANK YOU NIGHT RANGER! MOM! RICK! KEESHIE!
back in the day when we would have stood near the stage for the entire concert, we would have also stayed up the rest of the night gambling
but we are not back in the day.. we are past our midlife/mommy bedtimes
and so we left write after.. making it home by midnight
and OH NO! -late for church...
LOVE, sandra, ~amen~
p.s. -THANK YOU also to you DAD (aka: grandpa pez) for watching the kids so us mommy's could go out and play.. love you! see you soon...
posted by SHE @ 9:17 AM
3 Comments:
and in talking to my brother, i realized i forgot to mention this funny part:
how when we were next to the people standing in line for the night ranger concert, this lady tapped on my sister's shoulder and said ...something...
and my sister got a funny, suspicious look on her face
she turned to me, our mom, rick,
said, "what's a nanny-mook? -that lady just asked me if i was a nanny-mook..
i don't even know what one is?! what the heck is a nanny-mook anyway?"
and we thought it best to just keep moving
until, my mom, i think it was.. explained that what the lady actually said was
"are you from antioch?"
and then we all just cracked up and carried on..
i simply cracked up at the entire story! i am still having uncontrollable giggles as i replay the imagined video in my head. when i picture your sister hitting her KCHHIINNGG! That is fantastic-$140? WOW! her reactions are the best! i wonder if she realizes just how funny she is?
i love your system of winning. i'm going to try it someday. i like that....push push pull, or was it, pull push....oh, dear....i hope i remember when it really counts.
i bet night ranger was awesome! so fun! takes me back to those glorious "Day On The Green's". when for $10 we could see six or seven bands (all superstar calliber) and the concert went on from 10am until after 11pm. and...which we had stayed up all night the night before under the underpasses of the freeways, and then stood in line for hours. That was part of what made that time so great. i'm glad i was old enough to appreciate it....and, not too old to not care about it.
but....nanny-mook? i fell on the floor with that one....yep....and now i am plus one large bruise on my leg better for it....which is just fine by me. ;)
sue~sue: -she is so funny isn't she.. way fun!
and oh! day on the greens..
wild and wonderful concerts weren't they -intro to real rock n' roll and all the accoutrements
guess who else is in the line up at cache creek...
y & t!
and if we had our way about it...
"images!"
let's go plant some new seeds...
love and see you soon, ~s.
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