chicago, july 31

the concert was totally awesome! it did't seem real. i could see them, but it just didn't seem like i was really there. did it seem like that to anyone else?

well before i start with the review, i'll tell you guys a couple things first. between me and my friend, we got probably sixty or so pictures! but they did not turn out at all. some of them are fairly good, and we will post them later, but you will not be able to see too much. sorry! if anyone wants to trade pics though, please let me know!

well we left around five o'clock, the concert started at seven thirty. it was about a forty-five minute drive, that we turned into an hour and a half! we kept passing up all the roads we were supposed to turn at, and we got all lost! we finally got there around seven o'clock, and we walked up the entrance. they had to check our bags for camera's and weapons and all that, and i thought for sure she was going to find my camera! i had stuck it inside the case for the binoculars, and she opened it up and was like, "what is this?" i said it was the case for the caps that go on the eye pieces. then she told me to pull it out. i was like "oh my gosh, she's going to find it! i thought this was the best spot to hide it! and it's was my mom's good camera!' so i started pulling it out not wanting to say no, because then she'd definitely get suspicious. then she said "no, not that, the whole thing." i was like, "whew!" she wanted me to pull out the binoculars case, not the camera!

when we got inside we went over to the "concert gear" and i bought the tour book, stickers, and one of those "backstage passes." then we went to go find our seats. they were aaa in section 205, center. they were better than i thought they would be, but were not too great. they were very good for the concert, but not good for pictures. =(

we got in our seats like five minutes before admiral twin started. it was so loud i couldn't really hear them and what they were saying about the songs, and i couldn't hear the words. if i'd had know the songs, i would have been able to tell you what they played. there was one song that i knew, phone call #27, it's a very good song! i think they played two or three songs, then they introduced the band, jarrod, got the biggest applause. =) then they played one more song, and walked off the stage.

while they were setting up the stage for hanson, they played a couple of songs (not hanson), i couldn't hear most of them, but i did hear "my girl" because everyone was singing along with it. every time a song would stop everyone would stand up and start screaming, hoping that hanson would be coming out soon. on the stage there were a whole bunch of guys walking around tuning the guitars, playing with the keyboards, and doing something with the drums. through my binoculars i could see this little security tv behind all the stage decorations, i couldn't tell what was on it though. then a big sheet dropped from the top of the stage and everyone was screaming. the worker people walked over to it and grabbed the bottom, then started to pull it to the end of the stage and hopped off. so they were holding it down so it covered the whole stage. by this time no one was sitting down any longer.

then... we could here, the "do do do do doot do", of "gimme some lovin' " the screaming just got louder and louder. they played that part a couple of times, then all the people let go of the sheet and it went flying up. now everyone was screaming at the top of their lungs. i got out my binoculars to watch them play. for some people, i'm sure you want to know what they were wearing, isaac was wearing silver pants and a black shirt, taylor was wearing all black, and zac was wearing this funny outfit that looked like a space suit, it was blue. ike's hair was all frizzy, probably hasn't had time to get a haircut while he's been on tour=). after they finished "gimme some lovin'/shake your tail feathers" they went into "thinking of you." the stage had this little "knife things" as hanson calls them, hanging from the top of the stage, and things that look like oil derricks in the four corners of the stage. hanson says that they didn't mean for them to look like that. must be some kind of subliminal thing, since they are from oklahoma, the oil rig state. after they finished "thinking of you" they played "where's the love." someone a couple rows in front of me and a big beachball and they threw it up half way through the song. it never made it back to me, it just kept going forward. they talked about how us fans helped to get the next song in the number one spot in total request.when they started playing "river" they lights changed from the bright colors, red and orange and yellow, to blue and green. then the beachball made it onto the stage and isaac ran over and kicked it off. whoever got it after that just hit it again. if it were me, i would have kept it, i mean, it was touched by isaac, why would you give someone else the chance to have it!? it got hit onto the stage a couple more times, one time ike had to run all the way to the other side of the stage to hit it off. taylor was jumping around while playing the keyboards, i don't know how he can jump around and still hit all the right notes! and zac was sitting back at his drums looking half asleep, like he does. he's so energetic, but he doesn't really show it on stage.

more of the review on the way!