concert

I don't know why that picture looks so small here. The one I developed looks bigger.
The concert was really fun. I met my uncle in the city at like 4:00 and then we got dinner and drove to Jersey. We got there and sat in the parking lot for a while (there were SO many tailgaters) and then we went into the stadium. I got a really cool shirt and then we went to our seats. It was still like a hundred degrees and really hot, but luckily our seats were under an awning thing so it wasn't AS bad. Nickelback opened and we didn't know a lot but they sounded really good on the songs we did know. Great opening act, but I think they would sound 100x better in a small theatre like the Beacon or Jones Beach or something. Anyway, then we were waiting for Bon Jovi to come on. We had pretty good seats but the stage was in one endzone and we were directly in the other endzone. So like 10 minutes before Bon Jovi came on there was still this one section that was empty- it was so weird! So we're just like, "screw it" and we climbed through all the people and went to the empty seats. We couldn't go out and through the hallway because then they would check our tickets. So we got there and the seats made such a difference! We were like on the 50 yard line and only about a row or 2 off of the floor. The section filled up really quickly after people realized no one was coming to fill up the seats.

Then Bon Jovi came on. They opened with Rockin' in the Free World which I thought was kind of weird, but it was fun. For about the first 30-45 minutes, we only knew about every other or every third song, so it was kind of boring. Towards the middle it started getting really good. Then it started raining, and it totally woke everyone up. The show was better and better from that point on. It really turned into a party atmosphere- I think it totally relieved everyone from the heat and tiredness. We all got down to as little clothes as we could (lol) and we were all jumping and dancing and singing in the rain, it was SO fun!! Even with people we didn't know, we were all just having fun together. Jon looked at the crowd and said something like, "holy shit! what the hell just happened in here?". And incase you were wondering, YES, he is as gorgeous in person. ;-) Richie took lead vocals for I'll Be There For You, and it was amazing. He's so great, I swear he's practically better than Jon. After Richie sang, Jon came back out and he yells, "hey man!!" and we all went nuts. They sang it! Someday I'll Be Saturday night, one of my favorite songs! I was so surprised because I didn't see it on any previous setlists I looked at. I was also surprised that they did Bad Medicine and Bed of Roses too. Love those. Towards the end it started really pouring and thundering and lightning, and the show ended. They came out for an encore and only did one song because of the weather. But, at least it was Livin' on a Prayer! I would have been upset if I didn't hear that.

Ok this turned into a fucking novel. So it ended up being a fun show and I'm glad we went.