Dave Matthews Concert

First let me start with the start of my weekend. I guess it was on Wednesday. I finished work and then drove down to Milwaukee and stayed with Nate and Michel. I had dinner there and stayed the night as I was flying out of the Milwaukee airport the next day. Thursday morning I had a meeting with my new boss. I think it is safe to say that I walked away from that meeting knowing that he was highly impressed by me. I caught my plane and was up to Minnesota. I met up with another engineer from my company. We had to drive to Stillwater to look at another bridge that my company is working on, then we were down to Prescott to inspect my old bridge. The testing and inspection went until around midnight and everything checked out OK. I got dropped off at Krum's place and spent the night there. The next morning (Friday) I went for an 8 mile run through the nature preserve along the Minnesota River. After a shower, I took the light rail to the Mall of America and saw Pinneapple Express. The movie was far less than I was hoping for. I probably won't do a full blown review on it, but I will give it a 4 out of 10.

After the movie, I headed to Borky's. We had some drinks food and some ping pong, then went to get our bowl on. I did get the high score of a 156 for the evening. Saturday morning I was up early and headed out. I got my flight back to Milwaukee and went to my brother's for the water volleyball party. Around 5:00 I left the party for Alpine Valley and the meat of my weekend. The Dave Matthews concert. Saturday was an incredible show. Excellent set list. I managed to find some great seats in the reserve section. No complaints there. Sunday was a family reunion with the Brantzegs. I left Brian and Nancy's at around 5:30 and headed back to Alpine Valley. Here is where my greatest disappointment of the weekend lies. I asked a number of people to go to the concert with me, and as it turns out everyone backed out on me. I ended up having to eat my extra ticket because I couldn't sell it in the parking lot. I wouldn't be that disappointed except that the people that I did ask to go to the show, would have loved the concert. I didn't think that Dave and the boys could put on a better show than they did Saturday night. But you know what they did. Sunday was a much better performance than Saturday. This is what makes me so irritated by those that didn't want to go to the show with me. In my eyes, those that I asked are all lesser of friends for not going. But when adversity hits, we must rise above. I decided not to let the fact that I was solo at the show stop me from having a good time. I actually had quite a bit of fun walking around the parking lot trying to sell my other ticket. I met a lot of cool people. Once inside the show, I was able to find some great seats in the reserve section, actually I was within on a couple of seats of where I was the night before. As I said, Sunday was just an amazing show. Here are the pictures.

This is me with Sharky, the mascot from the aquarium at the Mall of America.
Pool Volleyball. Greg if I set you do you think you can spike it? I would have to be pretty high. I bet you would Panama Red.Life size Jenga in the parking lot. Won't be long until I make a set myself.Sunday I had to go out and make new friends, since mine are all too lame.I might have to get the razor out for next year.Dave on stage.I ended up sitting with these guys most of the night. After talking to them, it turns out they were two rows in front of me on Saturday night.I did move up to the 5th row for a song or two before I got booted, but as you can see I got pretty close.I did a little research last night. Turns out that Sunday was my 22nd Dave Matthews concert.