So About Gwen...

It was amazing. Both nights. Sunday night was the first night I saw her and both Cassidy and I were unbelievably excited.

See? I'm so excited I can't even take a good picture. Actually, we did have good pictures, but one came out blurry and the other one was eaten by the camera.

We took a ton of pictures on Sunday night and... none of them came out. Maybe a few did, but I haven't seen them yet. I've seen lots of bad ones. About 100 of them, actually. So no pics from Sunday. But let me tell you that the show was INCREDIBLE.

Gwen came up on a throne and changed costumes for pretty much every other song. She had her Harajuku girls, of course, and had break dancers and lights and video screens and ohmygod it was so great.

So Monday night, I'm trying to keep my damn mouth shut and not spill everything to Meghann. Megs and I get all ready to go, we planned to leave at 4:30 to make the drive down to Seattle. We finish up and at 4:28 go to reach for the tickets and... they're gone. We freak out. Did they got lost when we were roaming the mall earlier? We didn't think we'd taken them with us, but... did we? We look everywhere. Behind the desk twice each, underneath stuff, in all of our pockets, all over the freaking place. Even in the kitchen cupboards. And the freezer. We looked EVERYWHERE.

It was about 5:30 and Meghann was almost in tears. I was panicky, but trying not to show it. We go down to look in the truck for the third time and still can't find them. We get back up to the apartment and pull out the desk. There they are. Phew! Seriously, we looked behind the desk twice each, but they were lying so that you couldn't see them until we pulled out the desk and they shifted into view. Bastards.

So off we went, an hour later, and make our way there. We walked in a few songs into the opening bands set and sat bopping our heads to MIA. MIA was neat to watch, they had good beats and amazing energy, but unfortunately you couldn't really hear a damn thing they were saying. They finish up and we start the LOOOOONG wait while they take down MIA stuff and set up GWEN.



There's us waiting. You can't see the people behind us, but I'll tell you that they were bitches anyway. We'll get to that. We're so excited! And then the lights dim and the bottom part of the stage lights up.


The music starts and the curtain rises. Everybody is cheering and going nuts, including Meghann and I. Gwen comes up on a throne, surrounded by Harajuku girls. She looks AMAZING.



When she started playing What Are You Waiting For, the screaming got louder, including my own because it's my favorite song.



Gwen's second costume change was into her 50's style bathing suit. She looked so much like Marilyn, I thought I was going to die. Gwen is freaking hot.




Singing Crash was probably one of my favorites of the concert. She had all the boys singing "Back it up, back it up," and all the girls responding with, "You got it, you got it," and I haven't been able to get it out of my head since. I was dancing like crazy to the song. And Gwen looked so cute in her racing outfit.



She sat down for a bit, I would imagine to catch her breath, when she started singing Long Way To Go. The screen in the background was images of interracial couples and it was very moving.



Serious was another great song. She came out on a stretcher with all of her Harajuku girls dressed up like nurses.







The encore was Hollaback Girl, but we didn't get any pictures of it for a couple of reasons. One was because we were simply too enthralled. Another was because Megs was crying. And the third reason was because we were so damn jealous. Gwen pulled the first two rows of girls up onto the stage with her at the end of her set and gave them all hugs and sang with them. Megs and I were going to try and bribe the security guards with makeout sessions, but they were all older women. Phooey. And of course, when I saw her with Cassidy the night before we hadn't known that was going to happen.



That's Megs and I in front of her tour bus. We were going to try and stalk her and catch her going to her bus, but it was freezing ass cold and she probably wouldn't have appreciated it too much, so we took off and went to the casino where we gambled all of our remaining money away. I had a blast.

It's hard to say which concert was better. The first night was fantastic because it was all new and we were a smidge closer, but the seats the second night were better because we weren't on the floor, but we were in row 7 so we had a perfect view of everything.

The only crappy part of the second night was the lame-ass people behind us. We were standing up and dancing and halfway through they asked us to sit down so they could see. We were nice and sat down. Until we realized that it was absolutely no fun not being able to rock out and dance around, so two songs later we were back up and we ignored them for the rest of the show. If they wanted to see that bad, they could have stood their asses up. It's not our fault they were lazy. People all around them, not just us, were standing up and grooving. Whateva.

So I had a blast. And if you get the chance to catch her on tour, I highly recommend it. I've been to a LOT of concerts and she is probably the best one I've been to. Top notch.