Friday
Nice drive in to town. Went to dreamy Swiss Chalet. Went to hotel, sat in parking lot for a year, went in to find that SOMEBODY made a reservation for the wrong month, and since nothing is ever simple, we had to CALL and 800 # to change the reservation because god forbid we just check in since we were, you know, STANDING AT A CHECK IN COUNTER! Because of this fiasco we were almost late to the concert. As we crawled over people to get to our seats, the pre-must was starting, so it was weird because we had like no time to get psyched up. Walk in, find seat, Geddy Lee gets on stage. I’m glad we weren’t late tho. Show was GREAT. I love love love Geddy Lee. Boy are they getting old. Geddy doesn’t look it, but the other two guys do. Then on the way home, and the hotel was probably a freaking hour away from the hotel (!), they took the four lane freeway down to ONE lane for construction, which in turn caused an accident, and it took an HOUR to go TWO miles. So it took forever to get back to the hotel.
OH, and what REALLY made me mad was the tickets said NO CAMERAS and
also said (on the wesite i think) that there was no way to “check
items” so it was implied that if they saw a camera on you or in your
purse (they look) they’d take it away, so I took the
pencam, but YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN all the “real” digital cameras there
with zoom and lcd screens! They weren’t confiscated, and security
said NOTHING to them, AND security was eyeballing us closely during
the whole concert. Makes me SO MAD cuz if I had been as bold as them
I’d have some AMAZING shots w/ the huge zoom on my fz1!!! What I coulda done with 12x optical zoom as close as we were! Grrrrr.
We were in row 15 I think, but since we were to the side, there was only 5 rows in front of us. So it was a very close sideways view, and when they came to our side of the stage it was a true 5th row view.
Lots of stoners. This bitch in front of us spent the whole concert yelling in her boyfriends ear instead of watching the damn concert and TALKING on a cell phone! Not just calling a friend and holding the phone up to the stage, like alot did, but TALKING, no yelling into the phone. She must have been stoned.
Tired, tried to sleep in, housekeeping woke us, and then I found that the damned in-room coffee was decaf. What sadists!!!!
We got “continental breakfast” caffeine coffee, and are going to do some shopping at the mile-long mall before heading home.
Wheeeee!
I’ll post a photo later, the photos didn’t turn out that great w/ the pencam. I thought they would, since I was closer to the stage than the last concert where I used the lower-res camera-phone, but the pictures really suck.