Labor Day Concert

Since marrying a music-lover and concert-guru, I've been to 3 concerts: Coldplay, John Mayer, and Incubus. This past Labor Day weekend was the Incubus concert. We went to an outdoor pavilion about an hour north of town. It turned out to be very nice, yet muddy.

Our tickets were for the lawn and there was more seating on the lawn than there were actual seats you could purchase. It was kinda like sitting in a big sloping outfield. Before going I had a great plan of bringing a blanket, some chairs, water, and snacks, and making this a really fun little picnic kind of outing. That didn't exactly work out. What was I thinking? How was a rock concert going to be cute and quaint? Anyway, they won't allow anything in the pavilion. All we managed to bring in was 2 ponchos. It worked out perfectly, though, because that's what we sat on in the mud.

There were tons of people who didn't have anything to sit on and got covered with mud. It was so slippery that people were falling down and grabbing on to others to help keep them from falling down, etc. Quite entertaining. I slipped a few times but never actually fell. Phew!

After figuring out our seating situation, and buying a t-shirt, we relaxed and enjoyed the show. By the way, why are opening bands always awful? It was enough for me to want to pay the extra money for an actual seat next time so I don't have to go early and endure the horrible opening bands. And you know it must be bad if I think it's bad; I'm easy! So, anyway, once Incubus started to play everyone was standing and singing along and it was a lot of fun. I wish I knew more of the songs, so I'll have to work on that for the next concert. From what I've been told, a band is good if they can sound live like they do on their cd, so I'm guessing they're pretty good.

All in all, I good anniversary present for Bryan.