Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Kicking off Summer

The first weekend in June was when we kicked off summer with a perfect weekend. I can't beleive that was a month ago already. Ack! Where does the time go?!? Anyway, the first weekend in June was one of the first sunny weekends of the season. We started off the weekend with a Saturday morning "dance party" and breakfast on our upper deck. Later we all went to a fun 3 year old birthday party for a little friend and then out to dinner with great (grown-up)friends while the kids stayed home with Julie. We ended the night with really great, even if a bit excessive, U2 and Lenny Kravitz concert.
Our seats werent the best, but with the contraption they had for the show, it didn't matter. The "claw" reaches up to the very top seats where there is a HUGE video screen.
Simone, me, Jen and Markus enjoying our free nose-bleed seats and a beer.

Lenny Kravitz


Bono and gang

Marty went to dinner and then gave his ticket to my friend Simone. The photo below is the reason Marty boycotted the show. U2 has 45 of these semi-trucks to transport "the claw" from city to city while on tour. They have not one but two of everything because while one stage is being set up the other is being disassembled and moved to the next city. He felt that U2 started off as a band that was against big stadium shows but that is what they have turned into. Out of conviction he opted out.. Simone was thrilled :)

Our perfect weekend continued with great weather on Sunday as well. We had another breakfast on the deck with a "dance party" Josie loves her dance parties. Then we had a coupon for a free movie that was about to expire. Not the best option for a sunny day but a free movie is hard to pass up. We told Josie she could pick one of us to go with her on a "date" to go see a movie. She chose me, which doesn't happen much these days. We hopped on the bus and headed downtown to see Rio in 3 D. She loved it!!


When we got h0me we found an empty house with a message from Marty saying that he and Benjamin were down at Alki. So we headed down there and ended our perfect weekend with a little beach time and dinner at Pegasus.

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