Neil and his Celebrity friends

Neil is a local celebrity of sorts. (He would disagree). He writes sports. Most guys like sports so I have gotten used to being stopped Everywhere (Did I say EVERYWHERE?) we go. Sometimes even when were in other states and sometimes in weird places. People will stare and wonder where they know him. I guess because his picture is in the paper. I'm not sure. But the kids and I are used to it. But now Neil has moved on and he is now hanging out with other (Real) celebrities. They are becoming his friends. The kids and I like to give him a hard time.

Neil and I had seen Safety Suit in concert last spring in Salt Lake and we really liked them.

Neil has been writing for alternativeaddiction.com and he did a story on SafetySuit see the story here. He got to know them a little with the story and found out the drummer Tate Cunningham really likes fly fishing.

When Neil heard that they were coming to play in Salt Lake he came up with an idea that he wanted to take Tate fly fishing. Any of you who know Neil...know he is not a good fisher-man. He rarely or maybe it's never catches anything. So first on the agenda was to get a guide (thanks Jim Oneil) so that he would know where to take Tate. The provo river is famous for fly fishing so Tate was excited to go and thought he might remember who Neil is and if I had to guess he probably googled Neil to find out who he was.

Afterall Tate was trusting him to pick him up and drive him around and with all the possible weirdo's out there it was brave of him...I thought. Neil met the tour bus in Park City on their way from Denver to Salt Lake. Neil met all the band members and then Neil and Tate took off for their fishing adventure. Neil had a great day and said they talked and talked.

Neil then took Tate up to Salt Lake barely in time for sound check.

Tate is a great fishermen. Check out his blog here.

He even wrote about Neil and their fishing day.

Neil went to the concert that night with Matt (I was sick...so sad).

He said the concert was great!

Neil is friends with J.R. Richards of Dishwalla and the group The Gufs and now Tate and the rest of Safety Suit. It will be fun to see who will be next. Neil your so much fun every celebrity or non-celebrity would be so lucky to have you as a friend.