First off was the trip 30 minutes down the road to Cortland, where the Jets hold most of their training camp. The camp started at 8:20 a.m. and finished up by 11 a.m. Since Tara didn't have work until 1 p.m. that day, she woke up and came with me, and it was a lot of fun. You're able to get pretty close to the players, and the Jets have a lot of big name players this year like LaDanian Tomlinson, Braylon Edwards, Mark Sanchez, Santonio Holmes and Jason Taylor, just to name a few. I got some good pics of the players, though I missed out on autographs because we picked the wrong side of the facility to watch from. Overall it was pretty cool though, and Tara even enjoyed it!
Last Saturday was Tara's 22nd birthday, so to surprise her, I got us a pair of tickets to go to the Toby Keith and Trace Adkins concert at Darien Lakes. That is a state park and amusement park near Buffalo, about a couple hours away. The concert was the Friday night before her birthday, so I picked her up when she got off work at 4:30 and we just headed right up there. It was a great concert, but it was definitely a different experience. The venue was outside like Usana, it was massive and it looked like a giant redneck gathering. In the parking lot it looked like a tornado had hit a Pabst Blue Ribbon factory (hey, we're by Canada), and inside the venue – even though we were on the grass – we thought we might die of smoke inhalation!
We should be in for another interesting experience today as we're getting ready to go to the New York State Fair. We're also stoked for another concert, as we'll be taking in the Aerosmith concert there tonight. This will be the third time I've seen Aerosmith and Tara's first, so it should be a lot of fun! Check back soon for a recap. . .
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