Downtown Disney Concert and LUNCH

It's Friday and time for another outdoor concert. This time we are at the Downtown Disney Marketplace--it's a shopping and entertainment area outside the main gates of Disney's theme park mega-plex here in Orlando.

It's quite amazing that on Monday we played outdoors is Macon, GA where the temperature was barely 40 degrees, yet just 4 days later and about 400 miles South, we are ready to succumb to heatstroke in temperatures just over 90 degrees and in full sunlight.

Sounds really rough, doesn't it??

We had a nice little concert and the folks from the Disney music festival (was his name really Hanz?) said that we played just the right kind of music for the audience. They also gave the band an major award that featured a statue of Mickey Mouse. (WE DO EXPECT TO SEE IT PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE BAND ROOM, BILL!) As the Assistant Executive Officer for the band, Major Ed Covert was given the somewhat dubious honor of making sure that the very fragile and undoubtably quite expensive statuette (the "MICKEY" as we affectionately refer to it) made it home to LA safely. Major Covert was seen with it handcuffed to his wrist for the rest of the trip.

After the nice concert we were treated to a great lunch (can anyone say barbeque?) at the only place louder than sitting directly in front of Josh Cowing at a concert: Planet Hollywood! The folks there were quite nice to us and we all got more than enough to eat and drink--and we didn't have to pay for it. We got so much to eat that when they brought each of us a giant chocolate chip cookie, most of us couldn't eat it. Len Zola volunteered to keep them for us for later on, and was seen walking out of the restaurant with about two dozen giant cookies!

Thanks Disney and Planet Hollywood for giving us this opportunity to perform and eat. We are getting quite good at eating!