Hello Boys!

Friday, September 17th

I’m writing this on September 18th, well, 19th technically. It is 3am and I’m ready for bed, but I’ve sadly fallen behind on my blogging, so I’m going to try to play catch up right now!

On Friday we decided to lay pretty low because we were going to have a long night on our feet at our concert. We left the house just before one and walked north to Oz Park which is created in honor of the creator of Wiz. of Oz, or something like that. Cute little neighborhood park with sculptures of Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow and Tin Man. We went through Oz park and then over to Lincoln park. Lincoln park is big, and has a free zoo smack dab in the middle. We perused the zoo, saw some cool critters, giant spiders, giraffes, meerkats, rhinos, bears, seals, and other things here and there. It was really neat to see all of these exhibits just in the middle of the park, just stroll through, say hi to a polar bear, and be on your way!

There is also a large flower conservatory that we walked through before deciding it was time for lunch. Lucky for us, America’s Dog was just down the street. We hit up our new favorite spot for 2 dogs, a Chicago dog and a Regular dog plus pickle (Kevin was living on the edge!) and a heap of curly fries. YUMMY!

After our dogs we walked back down to the house, changed our clothes, and headed out to Wrigleyville. We’re about 3 miles south of Wrigley Field and decided to hop on the Subway to get to the park. We weren’t the only ones with this idea! The two billion Dave fans all seemed to be on the subway as well as all of the commuters just trying to get home from work (yes, we headed out at 5, later than we had hoped). We couldn’t squeeze on the first train, but luckily forced our way onto the second.

Once at Wrigleyville we joined the sea of people and floated along Addison Street to the front of the stadium. There is a web cam there, so we stopped to wave at Angela and Jordan who were waiting on their computer at home to see us. Technology is so cool!

You don’t really realize how big a ballpark is until you’re standing in center field! We joined the other loyal fans down in the general admission pit and were fairly close considering what a late start we had gotten. I’d say we were 60 or 70 feet from Dave. Would I have liked to be closer? Of course. Heck…even if I were sitting on the stage with him…I’d STILL want to be closer. But as far as concerts go, I was closer than I had ever been before!

Jason came out first. He cracks me up. Such a free spirit. Bare feet, tea and cantaloupe sitting on stage waiting for him. And, holy crap, can that boy sing! He was charming, entertaining, sweet, talented, and I loved seeing him!! After about 45 minutes he cleared the way for Dave. The crew came in and made the appropriate changes. 45 minutes after Jason left, Dave began. Oh happy day!

Now, I hate to be a Debbie Downer, and even though I’d be happy listening to Dave sing the ABC’s to me, I have to say that the show, Dave’s show, wasn’t all I had hoped and prayed for. It was, lackluster. He seemed tired, drunk, hungover…maybe all of those things combined?! I mean, the crew is talented, and Dave is, well, DAVE. But both Kevin and I left the show that night feeling like something was just missing. Oh well. What could we do? Just hope for better stuff tomorrow!

After the concert THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of drunk Dave fans poured out into the streets of Wrigleyville. We joined them, as we had no other choice, and walked down the street in the direction of our house. We walked until our feet could carry us no furthur, and then we ducked into a Mexican restaurant and sat on the patio. Long story short our waiter was drunk, forgot our order numerous times, brought me a salad and then asked “what, you want dressing with that?” but eventually we got our food, it was good, our feet were rested, and we were ready to finish the journey home. Luckily we stumbled upon a taxi dumping drunk people off somewhere, and so we hopped in and were home in no time at all. Exhausted, sore, and wondering how we were going to do it all again in 20 hours we called it a night.