Den and Kat: Jul 15, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

After the last performance of Idol this season, and David C took the number one spot, the tickets for the concert went on sale. I checked it out the next morning, the tickets were too expensive and were mostly sold out leaving only the bad seats left, which is what I should be accustomed to since every concert I have ever been to has been in the nose bleed section! However fast forward to Thursday night, I was giving my pantry a thorough disinfecting and scrubbing (due to a flood in our bathroom above it-that's another yucky story!!?), when a commercial came on and said they had more tickets available for American Idol. I thought, what the heck! I know the seats will be horrible, but it will be fun for Den and I just to be in the room and listen to the music. I bought some tickets on line, much cheaper than before and told Dennis. He was mildly thrilled. That's an understatement. A few days later, he said, I don't really want to go, why don't you call Nancy (my BFF) and I will hang out with Rulon while you are gone. I told Nancy when I called, that they will most assuredly be horrible seats. Her response was, that doesn't even matter, it will just be so fun to be there! So last night, I picked up Nancy, dropped Dennis off, Nancy and I went to dinner not forgetting our binoculars of course, camera and away we went to the E-Center!
Much to our surprise and amazement, we were seated on row 7 from the stage, right in the middle!! We kept looking at each other in shock as they took us closer and closer to the front! How did that happen? We watched as several other people were moved because they thought they had those seats only to find out, they were wrong. We fully expected that to happen, but it didn't! The second picture is us standing in front of the stage just before the show started. I seriously think we were in shock( I keep using that word, but it still applies), not believing we were there. Then we wished with all our hearts that we could of afforded to bring all our daughters and grand daughters! I did take a few videos which I will get to work on uploading to my blog. Look for them!

Chikezie, Ramiele

It all began with Chikezie, number 10, and then went down to David Cook. Each artist sang three songs, David A sang 4 songs and David C sang 5. There were two group songs, one just before intermission with the Chikezie, Ramiele, Michael, Kristy Lee, Carly and Brooke, and then the finale was with all ten singers!!

Michael, Kristy Lee (for Gunnar) and Carly

Michael gave me chills with "We Will Rock You" !! Kristy touched our hearts with "I Am Proud To Be An American"! Carly sang a terrific version of "I Drove All Night" Celine would be proud or jeolous!

Brooke, Jason and Syesha

All the Idols performed better than they did on TV especially Jason! They showed a great comradery for each other. Brooke commented after her first song " This is the place, right?" She also thanked Utah profusely for all their votes! She knows much of her fan base was here.