Boy, this weekend was fun! Friday night my mom, her boyfriend, my daughter and I went downtown for the First Friday Artwalk. We spent most of the time during the artwalk at Birch Avenue Tattoo hanging out with my man and the other Birch Ave guys. All of the artists there are so talented and I love going in to look around when they hang new work. As always, there was good food, great company and a lot of “awww”s over Annabelle (my daughter). After hanging out for a while, my mom took the little one home and put her to bed while my boyfriend Jeff and I walked over to the Monte Vista.
Three Bad Jacks and Black Orchid were both playing that night and they were both awesome as always. It was great seeing Elvis, Adam and Reuben again. Earlier that day, Jeff “El Jefe” tattooed a flat-out amazing Joe Strummer portrait on Reuben and I’m glad I got to see it in person. It was even up close, as his tattoo work always is. They are all such nice guys and I really enjoyed hanging out with them again. It was a fun show with great bands, great friends and great bands that are friends!
Elvis, the lead singer and guitarist of Three Bad Jacks.
The next morning was an early one. We got up, I went and showered, got dressed, put my Annabelle in her cute zebra dress we got at Rockabilly Reunion and her mary janes, loaded my mom, Annabelle, Jeff and I into the car and drove to Williams for National Train Days. We met up with Jillian and her husband along with Kathleen and her boyfriend and went to lunch at Pancho McGuillicuddy’s for lunch. I had heard of this place before and that it was great but I still had some minor doubts about a mexican food restaurant that had a shamrock for a sign. After my first bite, I knew there was no reason to doubt that place, it was great!
Kathleen and Annabelle after lunch. 🙂
Annabelle at the restaurant being a cutie like always. Photo copyright Jillian Danielson Photography, she is so talented!
Once we were done with lunch we went over to the train station and got our tickets for the train which was a restored open-window steam train from 1923 that has recently been converted to run on waste vegetable oil, how cool is that?!
Grand Canyon Railway 1923 Steam engine train.
1923 Steam engine train that we rode on.
Me, my boyfriend and our little one waiting for the train.
Boarding the train.
Kathleen, Jillian, Jimmy, some guy in a cowboy hat we don’t know, and Michael on the train.
Miss Annabelle-y on the train.
Photo copyright Jillian Danielson Photography
Kathleen looking gorgeous as always. Photo copyright Jillian Danielson Photography
After the train ride through the beautiful pine forest, we walked
around for a while, wandered through Williams, looked around and took a few more photos that will be posted at a later date for top-secret reasons. 😉
My mom, my daughter and I while out looking around Williams. Happy Mother’s Day!
We ended the day pretty early since Kathleen had somewhere to get to and Jillian and her husband had a long drive home. I’ll admit, I was exhausted and felt more like a vegetable than a person at that point. It was a great day and I was happy to get to spend time with all of them. I was hoping to get some shots with Taylor Mahoney in as well since he was there but we must have missed each other in passing. It was so incredibly windy that day and my hair was not having it anyway. I saw him and his girlfriend from afar at one point and we exchanged a wave Nevertheless, I am excited to see the photos they took that day and am looking forward to shooting with him again sometime soon.
Yesterday was Mother’s Day (obviously), I spent the morning at work and the rest of the day at home with my mom and my daughter. We did some housework, ordered pizza, watched a couple of movies and went to bed.
It was a fun weekend filled with great people and great music. I hope you had a great weekend and that you have a great week ahead of you!
Xoxo,
Melissa
Melissa Misfortune 