Feeling festive!

This evening Gabriel, Marcus, and I went downtown to the Main Street Arts Festival. We headed straight for the Sundance Square stage, where Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience would be performing.

This is a view of a high rise apartment building that has a bit of history. In the year 2000, a tornado tore through downtown Fort Worth and caused severe damage to this building, which was at the time the Bank One Tower. It was scheduled for implosion a year later, but the demolition was called off and the building was later refurbished into lofts and condos.

Here's Gabriel in front of a mural celebrating Fort Worth's western heritage.

And here are Marcus and Gabriel waiting for the concert to begin.

We didn't have long to wait...soon Terrance Simien and his zydeco band came onstage.

We had a good time. I'm not sure the boys particularly liked the zydeco, but they seemed to enjoy the festive atmosphere. And we ran into two old friends of Marcus'...two young women who were classmates of Marcus and Jesse way back in their early childhood class when they were 3 years old! I was the girls' therapist when they were in elementary, so I knew them well and also knew their parents pretty well. Their parents were with them tonight, so it was quite a happy reunion. After the concert we ate at Billy Miner's Saloon and then walked around the festival a bit. It was a fabulous spring evening and a wonderful night to stroll around downtown.