July 24, 2007

I finally got to use the Christmas present that Kristie and Renee gave me. It was a ticket to go to Country Thunder with them. This was a five day concert from July 18 through July 22. It was quite an experience. Not only was it the first time for Country Thunder, but it was also my first time camping and roughing it. After hearing their stories about last year when they went about the rain and the mud, I had tried to prepare myself for anything. But, we didn't have any problems.

It did rain the first night we were there and had to sit in the rain only for one show. It wasn't real bad, just a light but steady rain for a couple of hours. We were prepared and had rain ponchos with us. As soon as the show was over, it quit. And, seeing as it has been so dry lately anyway, it dried up pretty fast. We did have a couple of pretty cool nights to be out in.

We saw too many performers to mention. It was a fun time and I can say that I'm a survivor. I kept up to the girls pretty good.

This is a picture of me, Renee and Kristie relaxing in the giant Leinie lounger.



I was really disappointed that my night pictures did not turn out, but I got a lot of daytime shots. If you would like to see them, here is my slideshow.

I made a separate slideshow of Keith Anderson. Renee and I got to meet Keith before the show so our pictures with Keith are also on the slideshow..


Then I got creative and used those same pictures and put music to them.

June 29, 2007

Renee, Kristie and I went to Summerfest in Milwaukee this weekend. We planned on seeing Sugarland on Friday night and Sara Evans on Saturday night. Well....we did go Friday and we did hear Sugarland, but that was the best we could do. There were benches set up for people that could get the closest and picnic tables behind them. Thanks to the inconsiderate people that were in the last row of benches and were standing on the benches pretty much made it impossible for anybody to see past them.

At one point we were in that row behind the benches but knew we wouldn't be able to see anything there. We did expect people to stand as they always do at concerts but most stand on the ground not on their seats. We didn't bother going back Saturday night. It didn't seem worth it to just listen and not see anything. Think we better stick to the shows that are in the Marcus Amphitheatre and have reserved seating plus security for supervision. These shows were on the free side stages.