Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Dave Matthews Band at The Gorge

This past weekend it was time for Jason and my annual trip to The Gorge Amphitheater in George, WA to see the Dave Matthews Band. You don't need to know either one of us very long to know we are huge fans of the band. We've made it a point to travel all over the nation seeing concerts, planned our honeymoon around a performance of Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at Radio City Music Hall (New York City) and have spent more money and time seeing this band than just about anything else! I personally have seen over 80 concerts while Jason has seen over 70. Needless to say... we love this band!

Our concert-going-days have slowed since the introduction of The Mabster in our lives, so less time/money means less travel/concerts, but when we do get out, we have an incredible time. This year, we were only able to make it to one night of the three night stand, but what a night we had! On Sunday (which for those of you who don't know is ALWAYS the best night at the Gorge), we packed up the car with beer and BBQ supplies and headed out to meet up with two of my best friends from college, Cody and Christy. We all decided to drive over together; I made beef kabobs, homemade salsa and lots of chocolate chip cookies, loaded the cooler with (a lot) of beer, and off we went. Cody packed his tailgate BBQ and we set up for an awesome evening.

Before starting out, Jason kept Mabster happy by teaching her a few of his old 'frat-boy' tricks. She thought Daddy was hilarious!




After dropping Mabster off with Grandma and Grandpa, we met up with Cody and Christy and drove the 2.5 hours to the Gorge. Once we all arrived at The Gorge, we just sat back, relaxed and had a few drinks.








Christy is also really interested in photography, so after a while, we grabbed our cameras and headed out around the parking lot to find all the interesting little things you can only find at a DMB concert. I was facinated by all the painted cars.






I found this sign pretty funny. The Gorge makes a big deal about people not bring outside alcohol into the parking lot or the venue. Of course, 95% of the people ignore this rule, and the best way around it is to pour your favorite beverage into a non-descriptive cup. The beverage enforcers came around to our tailgate, didn't find any bottles, and then left us alone. Not more than 3 minutes later, a couple of people (with this sign) came around to collect and recycle our beer bottles. Pretty funny if you ask me!


It was in the news about 2 weeks ago, but the saxaphone player, LeRoi Moore, died from injuries he sustained in a ATV accident back June. I wasn't really sure about going to a concert after one of my favorite band members died, but a lot of people had some really nice tributes to the man.




Lastly, just a one more of our friends - they are just the most awesome couple!


Oh... and I'm of the school of thought that every husband should have a kick-@$$ picture of his wife on his desk/locker/space at work. So I made sure to get one of Christy to send to Cody later!


I'd post some pictures from inside the concert... however, I couldn't take my camera into the venue. So sad... as my 4th row seats really afforded us some great photo opportunities!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like you had a great time. Love the pp on the first 2 pictures. LMBO at Dads frat boy tricks!

September 4, 2008 at 9:10 PM  

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