A little spontaneity

Sunday morning, Sief asks me "Hey you want to go see the Coldplay concert tonight?" I being the planner that I am, look at him as if he is crazy. You can't just decide to go to a concert the day of. This is something that needs to be planned out at least a week or two in advance. Coldplay was in Hershey playing at the Hersheypark Stadium last night. Me, "Are you serious?"
Apparently he was, later that afternoon I found myself at the Hersheypark Stadium box office shelling out $40 for a concert ticket. We attempted to study the rest of the day. We head to the concert early to avoid traffic and grabbed some fast food to eat in the car beforehand. Of course as we are getting ready to walk into the concert, it starts to sprinkle and the beautiful clear sky has blackened with gloomy clouds.

You can see the wind blowing my bangs. We had to document our being at the concert, we decided to leave cell phones, camera, etc in the car in case of torrential downpour and complete soakage of our clothes.

Once inside the stadium the rain really started to pour. A San Antonionan type of rain where it rains so hard, even if you had an umbrella it wouldn't make a difference because the wind would throw the rain at you & still completely soak you under your umbrella. Hersheypark was nice enough to sell cheap ugly blue plastic ponchos for $5 a piece. Of course they only take cash, no ATM in site and guess how much cash we had between the 2 of us --> $4. Sief convinced a vendor to give him a poncho for his girlfriend for $4. So 2 people, 1 poncho and the hope that the rain will pass as predicted.

thankfully, 30 minutes later the rain stopped and the concert continued. Pete Yorn opened and then Coldplay! It was a great show. They did a fantastic job. At the end the band came over to our side of the stadium and stood on something near the crowd. They were probably 200-300 feet away from us. They sang a few songs there and then made everyone do "The Wave." The cool thing about this wave was that since it was dark people did it with their cell phones. They choreographed it so people would raise their cell phones all around the stadium in a specific order. It was pretty amazing. Can you imagine how they feel to have 12,000+ people there just to hear your music. I can only imagine the adrenaline rush. And the fact that they can get that many people to work together on "The Wave" while high school teachers fight their students just to get them to sit down and be quite for an hour. It's incredible.