Ok, so Jen Archer was putting the screws to me last night at Shoeless Joe's that I have not updated the blog recently. Well, she's right! I've been busy (a.k.a. slacking!)
So anyway, last Friday was awesome. Some of you may know that I managed to pull off an amazing surprise on Erin for her birthday. It was a long orchestrated beautifully exciting surprise of a Pearl Jam concert in Ottawa. It's started with Jen Clark about 3 months ago who called me letting me know she had a pair of tickets and that I might be intersted in buying them to surprise Erin. Well how about Yes, yes, YES! I knew Erin would love it. So a string of "Super Thank You's" go to Jen Clark for her help with this.
But now I had a HUGE challenge. I had to keep it secret from Erin and I had to make a plausible reason for her to be out of town with me that night. Her sister Julie was in on it from the beginning and that really healped (more later on that). So I built this work related story of a meeting thingy in Corwall at the Nav Can Conference Centre and Erin ate it up: Hook, Line and Sinker! The key was introducing it slowly and only talking about it when I had to. Less is more. But this killed me because I couldn't really talk about going to this great concert. I had to keep my mouth shut for fear of any leaks. Man it was tough!
The week before Erin started to wonder what we would do with jack while we're in "Cornwall".... well...she calls up Julie and Julie goes with it and says she's going to watch Jack. AWESOME thinking Julie! Meanwhile once I heard of that I set Jack up to go to my friend Susan's house! Many thanks to Susan for watching jack while we are away on such a short notice! You're a life saver!
So I told Erin at about 4:45pm on Friday. I put the tickets in a card and she just about freaked when she saw them! She said it was the best surprise she's ever experienced! WOW!
On the trip up, Erin made many phone calls telling her friends. Poor Tiff was busy cleaning while we ere going to Pearl Jam! (*grin*)
The weather sucked going up. Pure rain. We rolled in 30 minutes before they came on... just enough time for a beer in the bar with Ken and Julie. That's the second part of the surprise! Julie and Ken were also going to the same concert! Too cool!
And talk about a concert! Can you say 3 hours long! Yup, officially the longest concert I have ever been to! WOW! It rocked. All the hits were in there...Ever Long, Betterman, Jeremy, Dissident, Daughter, Last Kiss, etc, etc, etc with three encore's to boot!!!! The scond encore rocked the crowd big time. A set of three Neil Young songs capped with Rockin' in the Free World which people ate up and spit out! Wow the energy was high! The Corel Centre crowd really got their money's worth that night.
Later that night we crashed at my Dad's place and returned to K-town the next day. Very cool! It was a great surprise and a great night! Thanks to everyone that helped me keep the secret! You guys are the best!
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Nice way to surprise your lady!!!!! I was at the show too! My Pearl Jam Fan Club tickets paid off nicely...I was 8 rows up from the floor on Stoney's side of the stage. I was so happy I slipped my camera in...it was a magical night I will never forget. That was my 7th PJ show and the 8th was this past Monday in Toronto!!! I have posted some of my 800+ pics of the two shows on my photobucket site....so if your interested, i can send you the link.
Back in 1991 I wrote to Eddie Vedder and pleased with him to come visit the Grand Theatre to do an intimate show for his many fans in the area. Yea...he never wrote me back:)
Glas you enjoyed the show...it was worth getting soaked to the skin, wasnt it?
Cat
Hey Catx,
You don't accept comments on your blog so how can I talk to you HAHAHA! I checked out your PJ pics. Looking good! Glad you're a big fan! You were smart to bring your camera. I didn't bring mine because it said right on the ticket: No cameras. I didn't want to get it confiscated during the frisking I had comeing in! (*grin*)
Hey, can I put a link to your blog from my blog? I think you're pictures are really cool.
Take care
-Eric
Hey E:
Sorry about the posting block...I will go change it. I had some numbskull posting spam on my site.
Im glad you liked the pics...my photobucket site is : http://photobucket.com/albums/v294/cchristmas/
You can simply scroll down to the two subfiles of PJ in Ottawa & Toronto.
I dont go anywhere without my camera and I spent the last few weeks following the PJ forums therefore gaining information on how to ensure I got my camera in for the event!
Im sure you can link to my site by posting the url of
http://catfrombath.blogspot.com/
I just spent the better part of today updating it:)
Are you going to the Broken Social Scene concert on Oct 9th? I have a friend who is going to try and get me in!
Ok, Im off to change my preferrences on my blog.
Hope you had a fantastic weekend!
Cat
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