If any event in recent weeks months years has been blogworthy it is this one!

How many times have I started a blog that said something like "last night we saw saves the day and it was amazing blah blah blah"? Well I'm at it again only this time it was over the top. Have I said that before? Maybe. But this time even that is an understatement.

Last night we had the pleasure of seeing Saves the Day play an amazing acoustic set at Cervantes. During the opening band's set we spotted Chris Conley hanging out so we went over to chat with him. We reminded him we were the couple with the tattoos and he was very excited to see us. I asked him if he'd be playing "This is Not an Exit" and he replied with a smirk and said that he didn't know if they'd play that one. For the next hour we'd just have to wait and see if we'd get the chance to see STD play our song live.

It was worth the wait because what happened next was totally unexpected and beyond incredible. Chris opened the show by playing our song! But not just playing our song but dedicating it to us and telling our story to the entire audience! I couldn't believe he remembered everything but he did. He told about how we came up to him a couple years ago and asked him to write those words and he remembered how we knocked on his tour bus window a year later with the finished product. He told everyone what a cool couple we are and he even thanked us there infront of everyone!!

After the show, we met up with him again to thank him and I told him i couldnt believe that he had remembered all those details and he said, in a way that can't be captured in type, "I have a good memory". A good memory?! I can't imagine how many people and stories he encounters over the years and across the country. I feel so honored that ours was one he's committed to memory.

Chris Conley, there aren't words to describe what these tattoos have meant to us and your words last night were another gift from you that we will cherish for a lifetime. One day, when we are old and so wrinkly that the inked words on our skin will no longer be legible we will still have these memories. The stories we will tell our grandchildren about Chris Conley will defeat time. Thank you. We will never forget.

pictures here