Crazy friends

As soon as I found out that one of my all-time favourite bands would be playing one of my all-time favourite albums live in their home town, which also happens to be one of my all-time favourite places to visit - I got kind of excited.

Maybe a slightly less vague way of saying that would be:
Oh my GOD! The Posies are playing "Frosting on the Beater" in Seattle. PLUS they'll be showcasing new songs for the album they're just about to record. Eeeep! Want to go, want to go....

So off I went to see how much flights would be, only to find that the cheapest available was going to cost us £900. This seemed a little extravagant for a weekend away, even my our adventurous standards. Disappointed, I decided it's not going to happen. There's no way I could justify that kind of spend. So I let it go and filed it under "Would be nice, but totally unattainable."

A very dear friend of ours, Andy P in Seattle does not give up so easily. He has now started an online campaign to get us to go. Bless him, it's so sweet of him to want us to be there, as much as we'd love to be there.
He's SO determined that we should go that he's actually set up a Facebook group, which is totally bonkers.
I think it's a joke - a wouldn't it be cool if... situation. Only it's getting harder and harder to tell, because people are actually pledging money to help towards the cost of our flights.

Ummm - I can't help but be all English about this and be totally freaked out by people being that nice. We don't cope well with this type of thing. We're not good at accepting compliments or gifts. It's a weird mix of being really touched and happy that anyone would go to this kind of effort - mixed up with "Aaaargh, they're being all nice and drawing attention to me!"
Hahaha... it even sounds stupid to me.

All of our friends in the USA have already been so generous to us when we've been over there on holiday. They willingly give up their precious holiday, their time, invite us into their homes, drive us around, feed us - anything to make us feel at home and make sure we have a good time. We already feel like we owe them so much - and yet here they are again, being so kind.

It's hard to know what to say.