Weekend Report 6/20/11

Is this really Monday? I'm coming off from a wonderful weekend.

Friday night I made DH his favorite home cooked meal to start our Father's Day weekend off right, haddock, smashed spuds with garlic and sweet corn. He loved it. We chilled out at home, watching a few episodes of House Hunters International and playing games with the boys.

Saturday we slept in, then got up to enjoy brunch and a little shopping out with the boys. I found a new comforter for our bed on sale at Kohl's, and I had an additional coupon for 20% off the sale price. Its been so long since we've had a blanket that wasn't a hand me down! 

Saturday night DH & I had date night. We drove to Slinger, Wisconsin for Slinger Rockfest. Our main purpose was to see Blind Melon! We arrived around 4:30 even though the festival started at 3:00pm. To our surprise, hardly anyone was there! We ended up with a parking spot in front, and had no problem walking right up to the stage rail for a great spot for the show. Most of the existing crowd was Ace Frehley fans in lawn chairs.

We saw The Love Hammers perform. Their lead singer is Marty Casey, who appeared on that show Rock Star INXS. The Love Hammers gave a great performance despite having to play to such a sparse crowd.

Next we saw The Last Vegas. I wasn't as impressed. Some of their songs were good, but about half were boring, generic rock.

Next up was our boys! By this time, the Melonheads equaled the number of Ace Frehley fans, however the Ace fans had arrived earlier with lawn chairs. I have never seen this at a concert before. They placed their lawn chairs in the middle and either sat in them the entire time, or would leave their chair empty, hoping it would be there when they returned. At one point a Melon fan asked if she could stand in the front just for Blind Melon, promising to move before Ace came on. She was denied, which was stupid because where she wanted to stand were two empty chairs. Those two Ace fans were absent the entire Blind Melon set.

If you are going to a concert, make an effort to connect with the performers even if you are not familiar with their music!! Those Ace fans sat in their lawn chairs the entire time, many with bored looks on their faces. I wasn't familiar with The Lovehammers or Last Vegas, but I stood up and payed attention.

We were positioned to the right of the stage and it was awesome when Travis, our band's lead singer jumped off the stage to walk over to us and sing to us! Another band member, Brad, recognized us and pointed us out from the stage!

"I see some long time Blind Melon fans are here tonight! Thank you!"

I was happy they knew we were there to support them, even if rude Ace fans, sitting in their lawn chairs were trying to kill the rock buzz. Here's video of one song, I Wonder. Notice the buzz killing Ace fans sitting in the front, ruining prime rock real estate. (We're just out of camera range on the right.)

Karma justice came when Ace decided he wasn't ready to go on, so our boys got to play extra long!!!

We made it home Saturday night, bringing home our gamers some late night donuts. We hung out, processed the concert and played games with our sons.

Sunday, after sleeping in once again of course, we got up to take DH to Outback for Father's Day. DMIL joined us and we had a great lunch.

Afterward we hit a used book store, followed by a free ice cream sundae for dad at Culvers. He actually gave me the sundae and ordered himself a shake. :) As good as hot fudge sundae's are, I have to remember how they make me feel afterward. I must stick to fruit & yogurt smoothies only! OUCH!

Sunday evening we digested. :) We chilled out, watching TV, playing a board game called Gambler, and watched a cheesy scare 80's movie, Waxwork.

We had such a great, full, fun weekend, but I wish it could have been longer.