All I Want to Do...'Til Summer Comes Around

Thursday night Hol, Lis, a friend of our's Tara, and I went to the Keith Urban and Sugarland concert. It was Phe-nomenal! We've seen Keith once before, but we were highly anticipating Sugarland. They did not disappoint. The only complaint I have (because you knew there would be one. Hello, it's me...at a concert. There's always something. :p) is that there were annoying girls in front of us during Sugarland and even more annoying women in front of us during Keith Urban. The girls during Sugarland wanted to stand and wave their arms like uncoordinated maniacs. That's all fine and dandy... if we weren't in the nosebleed section!



(the annoying girls)


(our imitation of the annoying girls)

Then the girls left (or relocated) during the KU portion of the concert and we thought we were home free. Oh boy, were we wrong! The women a couple rows in front of us were even worse than the girls. By the end we were praying the girls would come back and the drunk women would fall over the railing. [Did I just say that out loud?]

Besides all that the concert was amazing and I would definitely see both of them in concert again.

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What a wonderful way to kick off the summer. :)

Until.......................

RF & TS (with a side of DM's)

Well, I'm going to try and make this a quick post (haha), because my head hurts from the concert.

Right when we got there and we got settled in our seats we saw like 10 people that we knew. No joke! They were all pretty much in our vicinity too, so who knows who else was there and we didn't know it.
We had been sitting in our seat about 15 minutes when "they" came in. You know it wouldn't be an experience that involved me if there wasn't an obnoxious component to the story. The DM's had arrived. What does DM stand for you ask? Drunk. Mom. There were about 8 of them, and they were all drunk as skunks. There were more of them than there were kids that they had brought. In fact they were more excited than their girls. They should have been embarrassed. In fact, I was embarrassed for them! They didn't have enough clothes on, they were jumping around, and one was so drunk she was tripping all over the place. Hopefully they had a DD with them, or one of their husbands was picking them up. Anyway...on to the concert.

The concert was really good! Taylor Swift is just adorable and a very good entertainer. She sounded good and seemed very nice and funny. We had trouble at first getting good pictures of her because she moves so darn much. I think we got some pretty good ones though. I kind of wish she had gotten to play longer, because she was quite enjoyable.




When intermission was coming to an end in walked one of the DM's and her daughter. The daughter was crying hysterically, and not "I love you Sanjaya!" crying, this was Mama-done-me-wrong crying. Still don't know what happened there, but her DM was mean to her, and thankfully the lights went down shortly after so we didn't have to listen to/watch them anymore.
Rascal Flatts was up next. I got the ever livin' daylights scared out of me from the big boom and flash of light they had during their intro. I jumped and covered my eyes. It was so bright! They were good as well. They came over and hung out on our side more than Taylor was able to. I mean after all, there are three of them. Joe Don liked to hang out on our side, so we enjoyed that.
The DM's absolutely LOVED Rascal. They were constantly waving their arms in the air and they stood practically the entire time, so that means we stood as well. We couldn't see anything if we were sitting and they weren't. One thing is for certain, the drunker you get the more you play with your hair. I swear! The DM in front of my was touching her hair constantly. I call her the Leigh Ann Womack wanna be (She was the mean DM). At one point Gary came over and was singing in front of our section and I don't know if he mouthed something to them or what but I saw him nod, and then all the DM's went berzerk and were congratulating one DM. Not sure what happened there. You would have thought he hugged her or signed something for her, and really they didn't touch or anything. Maybe they were so drunk they thought he was closer than he was. Who knows.

(This little boy got to walk around the entire stage with Gary while he sang a song. He was so adorable waving to people and giving them high fives.)

The song they played right before they said goodnight was Here's To You. If you know this song you know that there is a verse in the song that says "There's a wet corvette, red lipstick print on a Coors Light cup, and judging by the way she's dancing I'd say she's had enough." Well, that lyric was oh so true. Those DM's had drank enough and they were insane! One DM was doing more of a head bang than a bob during the encore song. I seriously almost started video taping her she was so ridiculous.
Of course it's not a real country concert until someone jumps up on stage and gets carted off by security. (That's two concerts in a row I've been to that this has happened at!) The comedian Ron White was there and he was as drunk as a skunk too. He along with another unknown guy jumped up on stage during the encore and made huge fools of themselves. The difference was the other fool got taken away, Ron got to stay and act like an idiot until the end. Then there were the balloons and confetti that came down from the ceiling. We pretty much had an inkling that was going to happen because small pieces of confetti had been falling all night. I wish I had only had a warning of the big boom and flash of light during the intro.

So, all in all it was a good concert (minus the DM's). I must now go to bed, because I have a full day ahead of me.

Until...........................................................

T minus 1 hour and 50 minutes...

...before I leave the house and head for the Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift concert. I'm wondering how this will compare to my Keith/Carrie experience. My seats are way better (can you say Section 2, row E?). They are right next to the stage. I'll try and post a few pics when I get home tonight. You know I won't be without my camera. :)
Alright, I'm squeezing in another hour of studying before I go...
Until.....................

Concert Experience

Oh what fun we had at the Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood concert. I think we were almost surprised at how much fun we did have. I won't waste time...I'll just get right to it....

The concert started at 7:30. Carrie kicked off the night. She did an amazing job (as I knew she would). Even though we were in what is affectionately called "the Nosebleed Section" we had a pretty good view of the stage. There was a long runway that ran across the middle of the floor section, so with my powerful zoom on my camera I was able to get some pretty amazing pictures. Amazingly there were not any overly annoying people sitting around us like there usually are at every other event we go to. I think that had something to do with the fact that we were the very top row with no one behind us. Haha!

Never the less we had an awesome time. I think Holli was pleasantly surprised by Keith Urban. The man is crazy!!! He pulled someone on stage with him, went out into the audience and even signed and gave away his guitar!!! That poor girl... she was FREAKING out! Holli said she heard on the radio that one of the security guards was trying to protect her and the guitar and ended up accidentally smacking her in the head with the guitar. She had to go see a medic. How hilarious is that?? She'll forever have a story to tell (not to mention the autogrpahed guitar). He is one crazy performer. He just goes and goes like the energizer bunny. He can play a mean guitar too, not to mention he's pretty rockin' on the piano as well. He is definitely a good performer and I would go see him in concert again.

Another...interesting thing that happened was we got to see someone escorted (or rather dragged away) by security. Some guy had had a little too much to drink and decided it would be his smartest idea ever to jump up on the runway part of the stage. Haha...not so much. I saw him dancing on the runway and was wondering who he was and where he came from. Well, not two seconds later a security guard comes running out from backstage, past Keith (who was laughing while he was trying to sing) and practically tackled the poor inebriated guy. He drug him down the rest of the runway to the stairs at the end and then 4 other security guards came running at him. He seemed pretty harmless, but they had to be sure, so they ended up escorting him out of the arena and we never saw him again. I wish we would have caught it on tape, but Holli was the one videotaping with her camera and she had no clue what was happening because she was so focused on Keith. She did get the part where Keith starts laughing and the security guy runs past him, but she turned it off after that so she could watch what was happening since everyone was freaking out, and she had no idea why. Oh well....

Nothing else major happened. Some people around us were lighting real lighters while Keith was singing. Seriously...don't they know we've upgraded to cell phone illumination, not the old fashioned lighter? I mean, come on people... keep up!

I don't know how much longer he ended up playing, but we left a little after 11. We wanted to beat the crowd plus I had clinical today, so I didn't want to be too tired (plus it was like 10 hours past Lisa's bedtime).

So, without further ado......my pictures.......... enjoy..................

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(This is our view from where we were sitting. Yea... we were really far away.)


(She's so pretty...)





(This is during her encore performance of 'Before He Cheats')





(No need for words...)








(This is from the big screen, but I thought it turned out pretty good...)


(Again...do I really need to say anything??)


(Keith and the band)


(Keith and Carrie during their duet)





(Crazy man...he went out into the audience! Can you see the girl clutching the guitar he gave her for dear life?)

Seriously...how much does my camera ROCK?

Until next time.................................