Rockin' With TSO

This past Saturday, Katie took me to

a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert up in

Philadelphia. Now that she is a working woman

with a job at a local sub sandwich shop, she wanted

to buy tickets and surprise me by going to this concert.

So, several weeks ago, Heidi helped her purchase tickets

online and plan the day. It was the first concert I have

been to in about 35 years!

Katie with the tickets. She is driving with a

conditional license until the end of March,

so she drove us all the way up to Philadelphia,

about 40 miles or so. She also drove us back home

after the concert was over. She did real well

with 'big-city' traffic too.

My turn holding the tickets.

Self-photo of us before the concert. The concert was

over two and a half hours long and held in the arena

where the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team and the

Philadelphia 76'ers basketball team play. Just next door

is where the Philadelphia Eagles football team plays.

Our seats were on the main floor and reasonably close,

about 15-20 yards from the main stage. They had two

cat-walk like parts of the stage that had lights on the

bottom and a walkway on top that the guitar players

and backup singers/dancers used.

That part of the stage ended up about 10 feet from us.

This picture was of one of the guitar players, and of

course, he turned just as I was getting the picture.

Here is a picture of the other cat-walk.

There were about 11,000 people here for this show,

and there was another show after this.

Of course there was lots of smoke and lasers and LED lights.

Parts of the stage moved up and down and there were

lots of other props. It was a fun show and lasted a lot

longer than I thought it would.

The following pictures Katie took at the concert:

More eye-candy during the show.

All the lights and smoke were in sync with the music.

There were plenty of lasers throughout the show.

And the finale.

The finale went on for quite awhile.

Thanks Katie for a great time!