The Trip of a Lifetime...

Here we are on arrival to the hotel - a little road weary, but ready to go! Our hotel room was shoe-boxed sized, and off by itself in the hallway next to a closet. No wonder it was so affordable!

This is the view from the 14th floor down to the lobby. Even though our room was small, the hotel was still quite posh. And, most importantly, across the street from the Fox Theater. The closer to Dolly the better!

This is Dolly's tour bus! We went hunting for it before eating lunch. There were a long line of unmarked tour buses, and we figured she'd be in one of them, but when we saw the gold one, Lauren remembered: she had just seen a show online about Dolly's brand-new bus. This was the one! We were separated from Dolly by just a couple feet of air space and a thin sheet of metal. Right after I took this picture, a worker (we don't if he was with the Fox or with Dolly) told us to keep moving! Yes! We needed no further proof that Dolly was right there!

I am ready! This is right before we left for the show.

Lauren getting ready. We were both a jumble of nerves - Lauren so much so that she had trouble with her hair.

Here is Herself! I realize you can't see her - she is the whitish glow in the center of the stage. But enough for me to remember her. Truly one of the most exciting nights of my life! The concert was amazing to say the least!