Heading to Las Vegas

In November, when I went to Las Vegas, it was under very different circumstances. This time, it’s not because my husband’s flight was rerouted there at the last minute (thank goodness!). It’s because I’m going to see my favorite entertainer of all time: Garth Brooks!

Keith always jokes about our first conversations over the telephone almost 9 years ago when we were getting to know each other. He wanted to know about my favorite music. As an African-American woman, born and raised in Los Angeles, he had an idea of what my favorite music might be. And he was dead wrong. I’m a die-hard country music fan (yes, the kind who watches the ACM Awards and dreams of sitting in the front row of the CMA Awards at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN).

And if you followed my American Idol voting frenzy last season, you know I watched the show live every week for the first time since it debuted 10 years ago and voted for country crooner Scotty McCreery as many times as my hone would allow. I actually sat through commercials for that kid!

As much as I love country music, that’s how much Keith hated it. When we first met, he loved every kind of music, and I mean every single kind…except country. I was determined to make him a fan.

One-by-one I began playing him my favorite songs: I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack, I Could Not Ask for More by Sarah Evans, The Dance and Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks, It’s Your Love by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw and the list goes on and on. None were a hit.

Finally, in a last ditch effort to make the hubby a country fan, I played Real Good Man by Tim McGraw. And it was a hit! After that song, he began falling in love with the entire Best of Tim McGraw compilation and country music finally had a new fan. When he proposed to me, overlooking the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, he did so while playing a CD of my favorite country songs .

So this weekend, in his never-ending expressions of love, he’s taking me to see Garth Brooks. I’ve been trying to get tickets for at least a year but each time I tried, within a few minutes of them going on presale, the good seats would always be taken. But four months ago, it finally happened. I was able to get great seats for this weekend!

We’re going with another couple, good friends of ours, and Keith will be taking me to my third country music concert. He took me to see Shania Twain at Staples Center almost 8 years ago and then to see Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at the same venue 3 years later. Now, he’s going with me to see Garth Brooks in a small theatre singing acappella with nothing but his voice and a guitar.

Now, that’s love what I call love…

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Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).