The Concert in Pictures!

Ok, now you know you were all waiting for a picture entry on the concert last weekend, right?
I know, I know, I’m slow and should have had it long before now. It’s been a hectic week, ok!?

Unfortunately, too many of the pics taken turned out badly, so I only have a few, but I’ll give ya what I got! 😉

In a minute… the little one (baby-sitted kid) is fussing, having just woken up from her nap! 😉
 

Whoop! I was wrong. It was my little one that was awake. So, I sent her outside to play w/ her siblings. Of course, advising them to watch her as though it meant life or death… cause it does… theirs… 😉

Ok, back to the pictures!
 

So, having decided to go to the family reunion on that Saturday, we were already an hour into our trip for the concert. It was still a good 2-2.5 hours away, however. As we drove through the bajillion teensy, never-heard-of-it-before, not-even-sure-its-on-a-map towns we found a gem. A diamond in the rough, if you will.
It’s name?
 

Ah, there was fun to be had in the little town of Antiville. Fun like – Opposite Day in Elementary School! I reasoned to my darling that if it was "Anti"ville, that all things spoken in town would be the opposite of what a person said. He agreed, a bit sideways (b/c he thinks, rightfully so, I’m weird). Unfortunately for us, the town is only about 2 blocks long, so there was very little time, travelling at speeds around 55mph, to seize on the opportunies like this. I must tell you, though, there was some interesting manuevering involved with capturing this picture. We went past the sign so quickly that there was no chance to stop to take it. Attempting to stop at the sign heading in the other direction was vetoed (after a turn around just outside of "town") b/c the lighting was bad. So we headed back to the original sign, and turned into a driveway to flip around facing it (and the direction we were travelling) again, only to realize that on this side of the narrow 2 lane road, there was no pull-off area. The shoulder fell into a ditch. So we past the sign AGAIN and turned around mid-town to park opposite the sign, where there was a better shoulder. I ran across the ‘highway’ to snap a few pictures, then back to the truck for us to pull BACK into the aforementioned driveway and turn around so we could be facing the direction (again) that we needed to be facing. (wow, I’m out of breath just typing that mess!)
At any rate! There were no more fun pictures taken on the driving part of the trip. We did see a weird thing that we wanted to snap, but it was getting later and decided to do it on the way back. I thought a pic of it at night would be cooler anyway. Unfortunately, we decided on a different route home, so we did not witness the interesting side of the road device again.

We arrived at the concert fairly late, as I’ve already expounded on in previous entries. When we turned the corner for the ampitheater (I think that’s what you’d call it…) I was astounded at the sheer number of people milling about. I expected a full house in the pavilion and even expected a fair number on the lawn, but look at this:

 

Yes, we were clear on the far (stage) left of the proceedings. Those are all people. I can’t even begin to comprehend the exact numbers those heads represent. The smidgeon of grass you see in the picture (in front of me)? There was maybe 5 times that amount left on this side of the pavilion. Probably approximately the same on the other side of the pavilion. *sigh* That’s a ginormous amount of people. Turns out Mr. Mayer doesn’t have a hard time w/ ticket sales, huh?

Up next is a shot of the lovely Ms. Calliat (ha. i can’t spell her name!). Of course, it’s a shot of the large screen which is all I could see of the stage. We were nice and far away!
 

During this time, I glanced at Joe and asked, "So, darling, what do you think of her?"
His response?
 

We called it "Eh" face. 😉 He was amused with himself and I, as always, enabled him by being almost as equally amused.

There were two major annoyances in the concert experience that I must tell you about. The first I do not have pictures of. My battery was dying and I didn’t want to waste precious battery power on these beings. There was a group of 13-18 year olds located directly behind us for the majority of the show. I would approximate the number to be somewhere around 15 of them. And no less than half of them were drunk. And the entirety of them were loud, annoying, precocious, and down-right unbearable.
The second was a bit less annoying, but still distracting, to me at least. View this picture. (I was willing to take it b/c it also happens to be a shot of the view we had. And really, we couldn’t see anymore of the stage than you can!)
 

Ok, now, look closely. Do you see the woman who is almost dead center of the picture. Black shirt, brunette? You cannot see well, but sitting between her knees is a man. These two spent a large portion of the show groping, fondling, kissing, making out and otherwise being borderline pornographic. I can’t tell you how many times I unfortunately glanced in their direction and saw the fellows Hanes sticking out of his pants with her hand almost down them. W… T… F… Joe, of course, was generally oblivious to this display, probably b/c he was highly irritated and distracted by the children behind us.

And, finally, as the evening wound to a close, I glanced to my right and saw an interestingly gorgeous sight.
 

Not that we coul

d pay the $40 rental fee for the advertised Lawn Chairs, but I was intrigued by the picture, nonetheless.

We enjoyed the cool air and the warm beats of the sensual Mr. Mayer as the sun set.

I think I’d call it a hit.

Tia