The crazy facial hair tour

On Saturday, we drove an hour west to shop (no trip with the CFO can be without shopping!), go out to eat and then see the Zac Brown Band perform at the Peoria Civic Center.  I've decided that the official name of the concert tour should have been the “crazy facial hair tour.”  The first opening act was really scruffy, like 6” + long beard scruffy.  The CFO, of course, was put off by his facial hair...  but I thought he could sing really well.

 Then the second act walked on stage while the lights were dim… you could see that all 5 of them had long hair, but some were obviously dudes based on their build.  The CFO and I both thought the lead singer was a lady, until the lights came up and we were proved wrong… really wrong.  The band was all guys, the lead singer was just really skinny with long hair, so when the lights were dim he looked more like a she than a he.  His facial hair, however, took the cake.  He had what I would call “lamb chops,” but not normal lamb chops… no, no, these things were super long…  I found it quite hilarious.  They all looked like they came straight out of the 70’s, but they put on a good show.

Here is a good shot of the lead singer (the band's name is Blackberry Smoke):

 

After the openers, the Zac Brown Band came out and put on a great show, hitting most of my favorites plus they threw in a couple covers of other songs.  While you might think they would do covers of country songs, they actually went rock-n-roll.  They did an acoustic version of a Black Crowe’s song, a rocking Metallica cover (it took me straight back to the high school days!) and every UGA fan’s favorite “The devil went down to Georgia.”  I really enjoyed the show and I think it turned the CFO into a fan of the Zac Brown Band.  She wasn’t too thrilled about the idea when I initially told her that I wanted to go to the show, but she really enjoyed the performance.

Here is a shot from the show, our seats were better than the iPhone photo shows:

We had another consistent week of going to the gym; The CFO and I went every morning Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday morning.  I also went on Friday morning too... yes, I'm the over achiever.  Go me!  On Saturday, I decided to hop on the scale at the gym to see what was going on… much to my surprise; I weighed exactly the same as I did when we first joined, right down to the tenth of a pound.  What the heck?!  I was hoping to have dropped at least a couple of pounds by now… oh well.  After thinking about it some more, I have decided to go with the “muscle weighs more than fat” theory.  We are pretty sure that my stomach has slimmed down some, so I’m hoping that I just swapped some fat with (heavier) muscle.  This is exactly why we don’t have a scale in our house, not seeing any numeric change can be detrimental to motivation.  I’ll probably wait a while before stepping onto a scale again.