This weekend will be really hard to beat it was SO FUN!
I can’t ever love again….So Friday we began our festivites for the weekend by pouting. Well actually I began by pouting. Friday work was not fun for me, as I am growing increasingly bored at the remedial tasks my job requires, and I was just irritated….plus boy had a huge blow up day at work with clients which made him have to work all day and I was hoping he would get to sit at home that afternoon.
Anyway the White Stripes were at the Orpheum in Minneapolis and we had amazing tickets. We headed over to the show about 7-7:30 and arrived to find ridiculously close parking which started the remainder of the evening off to a glorious start.
Now we went to the Orpheum as I mentioned. This is a theatre striaght out of the ealry Americana theatre with stunning architectural prowess, not to mention it’s been remodeled to completely it’s original state. We walked in and I was completely taken aback. It was amazing. Not to mention we weaved our way back to our section to be seated in the theatre by an usher. Then he walks us all the way down to the 15th row on the floor with PERFECT views of the stage. The opener was pretty decent and we could take drinks in the theater. So I was happy, and starting to get REALLY excited as The White Stripes is on the few bands I really love that continually excties me.
They set up the stage, complete in red, white, and, black with a incredible curtain of red with white palm trees and actual white palm trees littering the stage. They set up the stage, boy and I whispered excitedly about what the light show would be like.
Jackie comes out, and blows us away immediatley. Plays Jolene for song number three and I am bawling and the show was pretty much the coolest thing I have ever seen. He’s awesome always dead on, and mixes everything up,
He encored with Looking for a Home, one of my personal faves, because if the crowd is a good one…he comes out smiling (a rarity for Mr. Jackie White) and lets you sing with him.
My personal favorites, the xylophone song, Jolene, I can tell that we are gonna be friends, The Doorbell, the blue grass song I don’t remember the name of and both of the Meg songs. Meg is starting to get her singing chops underneath her, and is becoming a lot more versitile in her White membership. She sang LOUDLY, and that’s quite different than the mousy Meg I saw a year ago, who only sang one verse and nervously looked for Mr. White on her left. This Meg got into it, sang loudly even if it was bad and sang along with Jackie on a couple of different songs.
It was quite energizing and made the world of difference in my life, as all good music should.
We left the concert to hang outside the theatre with the million other people who like us, were pumped about the concert, wanted to smoke, and just couldn’t bring themselves to leave. Minneapolis is the coolest place in the world sometimes. There were SO MANY PEOPLE there and everyone was so different and interesting, you didn’t feel out of place or even like anything really. I love being a member of a metropolis…it’s cool.
We left, and decided to scope out the Minneapolis scene and see what’s happening…it’s always fun to do that when everyone’s out.
Unfortunatley the Vikings just played and our supposed fifteen minute jaunt turned into a four lane, ten mile parking lot. So we put on some tunes and rocked out and had fun making fools of ourselves…as well as looking at some Minneapolis novelties…such as gay bars which evidently are a pretty standard operation. I’d never seen one, let alone one where people were outside so that was fun.
We got home about midnight and crashed.
So a couple of weeks ago I scored some cheap tickets to the minnesota fair and to the renaissance festival. So Friday in our make shift parking lot we decided Saturday we would hit the renaissance fair since I had yet to be to one.
We woke up about 9:30, got on the road about 10:30 and by 11:15 ish after arguing about which way we should go to get there (we officially live here now) we arrived at the fair. We parked relatively close again, and walked into the craziest place I have ever seen.
Now I’d hear about how much fun people have when they go there, and even got some more input from grandma a when we were at her house Wednesday but had no idea what I was about to walk into. We’re waiting in line and everyone is completely dressed up in mideval garb, I was so excited…until they started yelling…then I started to get nervous that they were going to pick on me…but we evaded much confrontation…minus a bow and a “Good day m’lady, m’lord.” from the dressed up goof balls. We headed around and I couldn’t believe it. It was so neat, and every time you paid with a $20 they yelled, “Huzzah…twenty pounds for the King.” I swear the first girl heard me cooing at the silly people and yelled it just to scare the shit out of me because she looked right into my eyes when she yelled. I had no idea it was coming and jumped fifty feet in the air much to everyone’s amusement.
We spent the afternoon browsing around the shops and watching people. We ate brats and drank soda and talked to people about their dogs and giggled at the BABIES WHO WERE DRESSED UP.
We caught some jousting…which proved to be quite a frusterating experience because we got their a little late to secure a seat…let alone one in the shade, and I guess leaving appropriate room between you and the person in front of you states that someone should shove themselves in front of you. It happened three times, and after pulling the boy away from people who had done so three times, we watched them joust and went to find a shady spot for the parade. We ended up watching a hilarious juggling show, and catching our breath from about three hours of walking and got over the jousting publics rudeness. We watched the parade and headed out.
That night we came home and walked to Lowertown and bought some drinks and proceeded to have Nintendo fun…Mariokart and Mario All Stars drunken fun was had, and we decided if we felt up to it we might have time to stop at the fair Sunday.
So we woke up this morning and sat on the couch and woke up. We both wanted to go to the fair but were a little hung over and didn’t want to push each other in to going after our crazy day yesterday. But the subject was brought up and we decided it was so nice out we should go, and we did.
We went over to Saint Paul College and hopped a chartered ride to the fair. We didn’t figure we would stay long, as we’d been to the Iowa State Fair more times than we cared to remember, but we thought….we live here now. We are going to live here for awhile and we should definatley go.
So off we went with low expectation and high hopes for good food.
We were so pleasantly suprised.
The Fairgrounds here are MASSIVE, and going on a Sunday was just every one in towns idea of a fun time. There were DROVES of people and we were amazed continually of the grand scale everythign was done on. And there were not nearly the amount of the ugly crazy people that there are at Iowa. The majority of people there were our age, and families with kids.
We ate 1 corn dog, 1 pronto pop (which is corn dog with different coating) 1 foot long hot dog, 1 nachos, 1 water, four diet pepsis, 1 dip n dots, and one chocolate malt. We made up for everything we ate by walking for miles, seeing everything we could. We walked through campers, cars, exhibition halls, DNR exhibits and honestly it was fun. I didn’t worry once about seeing someone I knew and even rode/made out on Ye Old Mill. We rode the sky lift and I swear we didn’t even see half the stuff that was there.
It pretty much was the same at the fair at home, instead of all the farming stuff being there because it’s just an integral part of our heritage…it was there because no one seemed to know much about it unless they were from Southern rural Minnesota.
And we spent almost eight hours there seeing stuff. It was crazy….
This brings a close to the weekend and this week brings more work, ick. More school ick. Labor day weekend will be cool as boy is going fishing with my pa and my mom and sisters will be hanging out in the citites with me. I am excited!
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