U2 Concert & Seattle Visit

Last weekend, Dale and I finally got to enjoy the gift that I gave Dale for Christmas, the U2 concert.  We actually totally lucked out on even getting to go.  We've always talked about seeing U2 and discussed it when they were supposed to be in Seattle a year ago, but never actually got tickets.  Then Bono had to have surgery and the tour was put on hold for a year, and at Christmas, I thought, "Hey, I'll just see if there are tickets," and there were.  We've had to wait 6 months, but we finally got to go, and it was so worth the wait--even for those who did originally buy tickets a year and a half ago.  It worked out perfectly that we were able to bring the kids up to Seattle and stay and Grandpa Robert and Grandma Pom's new house just south of Seattle and leave the kids with them while we went to the concert.  We also couldn't have asked for better weather.  It was the perfect night for the semi-outdoor concert in Qwest Field.  Lenny Kravitz opened, and he was very good, although had sound issues and I don't think was very happy, but U2 was AMAZING!!!!  The 360 stage was incredible and apparently takes 20 semis to haul from place to place.  It looked like a big space ship landed in the middle of the field, especially when it got dark and had lights coming out from all over it.  The 360 degree screen was amazing and allowed you to see the guys "up close" from all sides even though we were pretty far up.  I do kinda wish I would've bought better seats--maybe next time.  It was definitely a concert of a lifetime.  Here was one of my favorite songs of the night, and it definitely was fitting for the evening.





Seattle skyline with hazy Rainier to the right

After getting home late Saturday night from the concert, we managed to get up and get going to downtown Seattle with G'ma, G'pa and the kids to show them downtown.  We went up in the Space Needle, and it was a gorgeous sunny day and you could see the mountains all around.  Unfortunately it wasn't quite as clear as it had been the day before, so Rainier was pretty hazy, but the Olympics were gorgeous.  It isn't often, that you get this view from Seattle.  The kids weren't quite as impressed, and were pretty much ready to go back down as soon as we got up.  We did go down and ride the monorail more downtown to walk down to Pike's Place Market.  Again, the kids weren't extremely thrilled.  We should've thought out better what they would enjoy doing.  Anyway, it was still a great trip and great to see G'ma and G'pa's new house and hang out with them.  Unfortunately we had bad news upon coming home when we learned from the neighbor that was taking care of the animals, that Hannah's guinea pig, Fudgey had died.  That put a little damper on the weekend, but Hannah has seemed to recover and is just looking forward to school getting out and summer vacation.





Puget Sound with Olympic Mts. in the background