"Con Amor, Con Vida, Con Alma"

Life is awesome.
I realize this is a very cliche way to begin any blog, but tonight there is just no other way to express how I feel. Dearest friends, tonight I found myself at Prince Albert Hall in London at the Gypsy Kings concert and I kid you not, it was the best concert I have ever been to. The type of concert that everyone young and old stands up and dances and all your five senses are operating in full-swing as you take it all in.

I was thinking about how I came across the Gypsy Kings to begin with and I couldn't remember how I actually became a fan. I think I was listening to the Kings once in Cali's car about five years ago and vaguely remember going to the local Borders in the states to undoubtedly spend too much on their Best Of album. They have never been my favorite band but I find certain times in life when they are a necessity and those times are the foundations of great memories. I remember the summer of 04' when I spent a week alone on the beach in Andalucia. I listened to their album while soaking in the Spanish sun sea side. I remember traveling on some crazy bus trip driving down Calle Cruzcampo in Sevilla listening to the Gypsy guitar. And there I was- in this phenomenal structure, right out of a Victorian movie, listening to beautiful music and dancing with my closest 1,000 friends.

I look over my right shoulder and there was the most conservative 60+ couple just dancing away...on my left is the concert obligatory girl with the slim jeans waving her hands and shaking her hips, the Spanish guy on my right singing at the top of his lungs and clapping off beat most the time. The lead singer gets on and says, "Este es para Usted- con amor, con vida, con alma" (This is for you- with love, with life, with soul).
This is my life- Let the journey continue...