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We, and 1,500 of our closest friends, were part of the on-field crowd when Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers took the stage at Super Bowl XLII. Even though we rehearsed it with the band three times, the band excited the crowd more and more each time and Sunday was incredible when 60,000 and a worldwide audience was included. We also had fun riding in school buses with motorcycle police escorts through Sun City, Surprise, and Peoria to Glendale. And yes, what a game that was.

Thanks to the thoughtfulness of friends we were treated to a concert with the best violinist of our time. Itzhak Perlman preformed at the Mesa Arts Center. We also enjoyed an opportunity to speak with the man back stage.

Because we signed a non-disclosure agreement, we can't say what we are doing this weekend but it should be fun and cool. Here are some photos. Will post more later.

Here are a few of our friends.



Val expressing her opinion on something.

It was a cool day for 93 degrees. Apple Store number 200 opened its doors at 6:00 PM and I was in line with nerds and nerd-wannabes with their iBooks, iPhones, iPods and me with an iBerger from Gordon Birsch across the street.

Apple kept the opening a semi-secret for a while and I didn't know until about a week before. I figured I would go down around 4:30 and see if there was a line only to find out that there was only about 39 people ahead of me! Rumors floated that they were giving away two t-shirts to the first 500 people to celebrate the San Tan opening and the release of Leopard, Apple's new OS. For me, both were a celebration and the t-shirts were icing on the technology cake.

Here's a photo from http://www.ifoapplestore.com/ I'm in the line somewhere.



Another shot from blog.theyearofcoffee.com as people stream in.

What a pleasure to meet Rod Argent, keyboardist, singer and song writer for The Zombies and Argent. We share a laugh about an old Zombies photo at the Hippiefest in Phoenix.



In the background is Joey Mulland from Badfinger.

Also in the room was Colin Blunstone, lead singer of The Zombies. Colin still has an incredible voice and is such a generous person.