It seems like I have had an endless Valentines week…. From Saturday—> this past Wednesday I have been celebrating with Jason, friends, and on this particular day…on the actual day of Valentines Day…. I went to a Kenny G Concert with my great friend Bruce.

We left San Diego early enough to allow time to avoid the traffic and find Universal City in Burbank,CA since neither of us have been to the Gibson Theater before. We drove up in the early afternoon and made it up in record time despite a detour and getting slightly turned around. The drive up with Bruce was rather eventful, and we enjoyed ourselves as we searched for “affordable parking” half mile away from the venue. It turned out to be a much further walk…across the bypass, through Universal City, through CityWalk and finally to the Gibson Theater which seemed like a very very long walk. Bruce was a trooper the entire time.

We stopped before the show to take a coffee break, we had nice conversation…I did my nails. Normal things…Here is a shot of the two of us..
Also had to take pictures like all the tourists in front of the huge guitar outside of the Hard Rock Cafe:

Later we finally neared the Gibson theater and took this picture…people asked us, aww can we take your picture? I thought it was cute because they thought we were a couple (after all it was Valentine’s Day) and I thought to myself that I would love to be Bruce’s girlfriend because he is the sweetest guy ever…but I just smile at them and say, “please take our picture!” in my nicest voice.

As we waited in line for a while, I stood and stood, but I could tell Bruce was a little uncomfortable. We went over to the far end and leaned up against the edge and tried to hurry the line yet it wouldn’t budge. We finally were ushered into the theater. As we were there early, we went to find out seats. They announced that Kenny G would be signing autographs. I jumped up and went with my notebook and got in line. After standing a while and when I could finally see him. The security guard came up to me and said, “Excuse me he is only signing his merchandise”…”Why. I asked in a disappointed voice, he answered “He is trying to make money… Well that didn’t start the night off very well for me.. I have always been a fan of his music but now I was a Kenny G hater..

The show started and appeared right in front of us with his saxophone in the middle of the audience playing his opening song in the middle of the audience. I wasn’t impressed. I had not gotten over my lack of autograph. So I was alittle anxious…I was fiddling with my camera, my phone, going outside, getting something to drink…I couldn’t sit still.

It wasn’t until this moment, well until Bruce helped me settle down too…I told him I was a little anxious…he held my hand or did something to reassure me… At that time I closed me eyes and started to listen to the music. But the other moment was when Kenny G called up a couple who had won a raffle of winning one of saxophone, and also a personal playing session with him. He brought them up and played to them. The couple were so excited…He took a funny picture with them and took the time to do that out of the performance. That was the moment when I liked him again.

After looking at his albums that I do not want to get right now, there is one that struck me, his duets albums…it looks amazing.. His hearts and soul albums is his most recent…but this duets album looks really good.

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