Concerts

You know, I have been to a lot of concerts in my life.   Many many many of them have either been at the New Union in Minneapolis, or at Sonshine Music Festival in Willmar. One year I was lucky enough to go to Cornerstone in Illinois with the youth group.  All of those were christian music groups...rap, pop, metal, whatever..... The best thing about those was that my youth pastor had high connections with a lot of the groups/singers so we would meet a bunch of bands.  At the New Union the groups most of the time would hang out in the pool table/restaurant area to chat with the fans. I remember this one time I was talking to one of the rap groups telling them how much I liked then and had all their tapes (yes cassette tapes haha) and during the set they called me up on stage to dance with them. I bet I looked awesome in my early 90s hair and clothes. :-D  My all time favorites will of course be DC Talk and PFR.  I can't even count how many times I have seen them, mostly with Becky.....we have some great memories!!!! 

I have seen Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and various country artists: Garth Brooks, Reba, Brooks and Dunn, Rascal Flatts (woot!) and many others.  My very first concert however, was New Kids on the Block.   My mom was lucky enough to go with me!!!  And I am happy to say that in October I will be seeing them again at the Xcel!!!   I *am sad to say that this time I do *not have a ticket for mom  :-(   heh    My friend Elizabeth has extra tickets and we are going!!!  I have already dug out my shirts and my ginormous buttons for this exciting event. Jerrod laughed at me, but I'm pretty sure he's just jealous.  We reminisced this morning about the videos we used to watch.... he claims he had to, but he could have left the room I'm sure ;-)