CONUNDRUM:
Me and the missus have tickets for Belle and Sebastian on October 3, Sunday, down in Los Angeles. It's about a six-hour drive for us, but we both dearly love them, so it should be a lot of fun. And it'll be a nice chance to get away for the day. The plan was to go down on the day of, and then drive part of the way back that night, and then come home the following day and take a half-day from work. My mom has already agreed to watch the baby, so we're all set.
Then comes the announcement today that RKade Fire is playing locally, at the Greek Theatre...on October 2. The Greek is a beautiful outdoor venue (link to those hippies Phish playing it
here), and AF played here their last time around and it was epic. Honestly, it's way too small for them given their current stature, but apparently they are huge fans of the place, so there you have it.
Anyway, I mention this to my wife this morning, and she just completely shoots down the idea of going. She says she doesn't want to get a babysitter for both days of the weekend, which is reasonable, but there are plenty of people we know that would be willing to do it.
So do I:
a) skip it
b) try to work the angle of finding someone else to watch her, even though she's already shot it down
c) just ask if I can go and she can stay home with the baby
d) Bring the baby along, since it'll be outdoors and probably fairly manageable if we sit up high enough