Weycom to Sheattow!!!!!!

Friday night we braved the weather and the traffic making our way to the White River Amphitheater to see Cheap Trick, Heart, and Journey. We picked up friends at the Muckelshoot Casino, made the short drive(10 minutes) to the front of the parking lot(remember this for later), and were quickly inside the gates waiting for the show to start. While Avery enjoyed McNuggets with uncle Nic back home, I grabbed an $8.00 chicken basket for dinner and began to scan the crowd as they filtered in. People watching is our favorite part of any event where a lot of people gather. It was an eclectic crowd to say the least. Very entertaining.

On to the concert. Each band was good and crowd was into it from the start. Cheap Trick led off and played for about 45 minutes. Heart followed(they were actually the best) and played for another 45 minutes. Journey ended the night playing until about 11:30. When they took the stage we were greeted with a Heywo Sheattow(Hello Seattle)!!!! Journey's lead singer is from the Philippines and when he talks he has an accent. I thought we were in for a long night. And then... he flipped the Ozzy switch, lost the accent, and belted out tune after tune from 30+ years of Journey classics.

We knew getting out of the parking lot was going to be bad so we decided to leave before the encores to beat the traffic. In the car at 11:28. At 12:28 we finally exited onto the main road back to the casino. Oh wait, the main road was blocked off to allow the back part of the lot to exit. We got to cut into the front of the lot before the show because we had carpooled and we paid dearly for it after. Not only did it take an hour to get out of the lot, the detour sent us off into the country side of lovely Auburn. Before we knew it, we were the only car on a dark road and the all the GPS lady could tell us was to make a u-turn and that our signal was weak. By 12:58 we had found the main road once again and by 1:00 we were back at the casino.

We dropped off our friends at their car and headed for home. A journey that had started at 2:50pm when I left school, concluded as we pulled into the garage at 2:15am back in Lake Stevens.