Playing at the Outback Pub

Zach and Maura before his set

Delaney and Brooke shopping at ES

The Day before school started-
I spent the day with Delaney and her BFF Brooke at Eureka Springs where we enjoyed a shopping day. It was Delaney's wish to shop there. I know it's a cool town and the clothes there are interesting and definitely not something you see everywhere else, but the prices are a bit high for us and she left kinda disappointed. I am always impressed by how articulate she is with sales people and how they warm up to her quite easily.
I thought we'd head to Berryville and I planned to cut back north, but missed my turn, so we ended up going to Branson and then back home.
Later that night, I met up with Steve and Maura at the Outback Pub to see Zach play. I've never heard him play his violin before and, since he's heading to college, it was my only chance for awhile. This band is a "bluegrass" band, playing all original stuff. I got to meet Zach's parents there , I'm thinking for the first time, but his Dad said we'd met before.
Anyway, we called it a night pretty early because Maura wasn't really allowed to be there past 10.
I had a moment thinking how full circle things are at times. Imagining what, if anything, my Dad would have to say to Zach- thinking of how similar the setting was (yet decades apart) and even the music might be similar as to what my dad would have been playing in his youth.
Zach's dad made a comment that the violin cost more than his first two cars and had a bit of an unspoken "and this is why we spent all the money for it and the lessons, so he can play in a bar?"
Of course it's probably not the end destination of all his work and certainly not Zach's life calling to play in bars , but I bet he can pick up some spending money that way. I wish Zach luck on his pursuit of an art career beginning with his major wake up call in college. LOL