Sunday Southern Days

We celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary on July 7 with an all-day tailgate, followed by the Brothers of the Sun tour, featuring Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney (swoon). Our set up came in handy, since the tailgating van was already packed with all of our items from last weekend's Jimmy Buffett concert -- we only had to re-pack the coolers for beverages and food items. I will say that the Soldier Field parking attendants were pretty much worthless and could learn a thing or two from the great parking attendants at Toyota Park and Tinley Park (where we usually see Buffett play). Once we parked, it was mass chaos for almost 40 minutes while the parking attendants (when one could be seen) were trying to corrall cars into certain spaces -- and they would not allow anyone to set up until all of the spaces in that row were filled. While this was a small nuisance, it isn't brain surgery. Lay the cones out so people can't drive certain places and they were corrall into your...