Billy Joel

 Got to sleep late the next day and then got to go yarn shopping with two other yarn addicts like myself.  And I know that no one who has seen my yarn room believes this, but I have been on yarn moratorium to the point that there were new yarns and colors that I had never seen.  I have found that it is easy  

 avoid buying something if you never enter a store that sells it.  I did get some good yarn buys, but was judicious in colors and kinds that I know are needed in my stash….We were able to have a great brunch at Zola’s where I had a tuna Portofino sandwich that was stellar.  After having

  afternoon tea to recover from the shopping, packing up the car, we headed to the Palace for the main event of the weekend, seeing Billy Joel in concert.  We made good time to the arena and parked in the right place to get out to I-75.  With a good opening act

 that was a young piano player from Indiana, Billy Joel was awesome.  We got to hear every song that we wanted to hear and by the end of the night, even though we had a 3 hour drive ahead of us, I didn’t want him to quit playing because there were still some more songs that I wanted to hear.  He added some Motown covers being in Detroit and the stage was set up so well with shots along the piano where you could see the Piano Man’s fingers at work.  He said that he had been in show business for 50 years and I couldn’t believe it, but he did look more like Socrates than what I remember Billy Joel looking like.  He did some songs that I had never heard from the early albums and then ones that I wasn’t expecting to hear like “So It Goes”.  So, if you think of your favorite Billy Joel song, he probably did it.  He played for two hours and this was by far the best concert that we have been to at the Palace and one of the best that I’ve ever been to in my life.  What a great Valentine’s present.