ZZ Ward

The flight home from Austin was not nearly as glamorous as the trip out. The plane was delayed by an hour, so everyone missed their connections in Atlanta and I had to spend the night at the ghetto fabulous Delta-sponsored hotel near the airport. Despite having to talk to five agents before getting a comped room and waiting in a huge line to get checked in, I actually slept really well and flew out fine the next morning (despite being seated next to twin babies on the final flight--that would be five people in one three-seat row of the plane, two of whom were shrieking and flailing most of time--UGH).

I decided when I got home that it was time to do something fun, so I met the husband for sushi at Osaka, then we walked over to Half Moon Outfitters, where they frequently have musicians in town for the weekend play a short (free) acoustic set before their big evening show. This weekend it was ZZ Ward, who has an amazing bluesy voice. We tested out sleeping bags in one of the store tents before hanging out on the balcony to hear her play. It definitely took the edge off of my jet lag and was a nice little afternoon date :).

Here's one of the songs she played, probably her biggest hit so far: