Jully 14, 2011

This was our week of music. The Milwaukee Summerfest was the last two weeks and we hit the 'Fest (as us Milwaukeen's refer to it) for two of the big concerts. First up was Katy Perry's.  After enjoying some of the food and a couple of the bands on the other stages, we headed over to the big arena.  The stands were packed (20,000 was the number quoted) with teens and younger kids.  By our analysis, we were some of the oldest people in the crowd - hopefully not the oldest.  The concert was high energy with a lot of songs we both knew and we both had a great time. The only real blemish on the concert was the warm-up band, that in our opinion, left a lot to be desired. We were up late as the concert didn't end until 11:15 but fortunately it was on Thursday and we both managed to make it through Friday, although a bit sleepy. Of course, it is a lot easier for me to be sleepy at home than it is for Jo at work.

Next up was Sugarland on Sunday.  We attended with Kathy and John and after enjoying dinner and some of the other bands at the Fest we settled into our seats for the concert.  The crowd was much closer to our age demographic.  The opening band was enjoyable and really did warm us up for the main act.  Sugarland, like Katy, put on a wonderful concert although we didn't know as many of the songs since we don't tend to listen to country as much.  The band looked like they were having fun as was the crowd.  The one interesting thing about concerts is that you spend the entire concert standing up.  Even though there are nice comfortable seats right behind you.  This was a lot easier to take when I was in my 20's attending concerts than today.  We were somewhat hoping that the older Sugarland crowd might sit down now and then, but no such luck.

The rest of the week was spent working on projects around the house.  We are starting to repaint the house which will be some of the photos for the next post.  Jo continues to settle into her job and seems to be getting more and more comfortable.  On the exercise front, I bought a new bike to use to get back and forth to local stores and the bank.