Jon Bon I Love You!

On Dec 15 Rain and I went to see the Bon Jovi concert here in Vancouver at GM place.

Emily, Heather and Kim all went to see him in Edmonton just a couple of days earlier.

For Rain it was a surprise. I had planned on going with Mike (who was my reluctant substitute Bon Jovi fan). However Chris asked if I would rather have Rain come. I didn't know she was a fan! I think I had started to think that there weren't many kindred spirits who shared shared my passion for Jon.

However Chris wanted it to be a surprise. I didn't believe he would pull it off, but he did. When we met for supper Rain still had no idea where she was going, or that it was just the two of us going ;) She thought that she was going somewhere where she would have to dress warmly because that was what Chris had told her. (I guess Chris hasn't been to a concert in a while ;) .

So I finally told her by lamely singing a line from Blaze of Glory and she was stoked...and also confused about why she should dress warmly ;)


So we walked from the restaurant to the concert and found that we had pretty sucky seats. The were fairly close but behind the stage. Now I thought they were beside the stage and getting close to being behind, but these were definitely behind.

I had sort of counted on this. I bought cheaper tickets because Mike was not as enthusiastic about seeing Jon and there for I couldn't spend a fortune. I had planned on traveling around the auditorium and dancing in the isles which had worked last time for Heather and I and I wasn't disappointed. Not quite as close as last time, but pretty good! Rain was game for this tactic, thank goodness!
Here is another pretty close one. I had known about this. He did this last time too where he disappeared for a few minutes and then reappeared on the side of the stadium on a little platform.

Him and Richie had been on it together for a little while singing a duet.


Here is the whole band with Richie standing on the Juke Box.
The set was a house (Who says you can't go home) and it was complete with a BBQ, a bicycle leaning up against the door and for some reason a rack of 40 proof liquor bottles?

Here is a good one of Jon, Richie and the fiddle girl.

Pretty sure that must be Richie's current flavor of the Month.

Here is a good one of Jon and Richie saying good night. Overall it was a good energetic concert, but I would have appreciated a few more old songs. I was also a little irritated that Saturday Night was sung as a slow song and that at the end they sang a bunch of Christmas songs and oldies. I really would have appreciated Blaze of Glory, Always or Bed of Roses instead of "Shout", or "Run, run Rudolph", but oh well.
Here is Jon wearing the Santa hat with Santa throwing out some Bon Jovi swag.

After the concert we walked back home. They had stopped serving drinks at 9:00 at the Coliseum for some awful reason so we were two thirsty girls.

We also had to see how the boys were making out unsupervised. I had reserved the pool table for them and they had guitar hero to keep them entertained.


Then Rain tried her hand at guitar hero. She was amazingly good for her first try. Mike and I were a little jealous. However she was evened by Chris out who was amazingly ... ;0

Mike and I attribute it to the fact that she is a nurse and every day she has to do precise, dexterous, physical work. We need some kind of an excuse because she kicked our buts!

Anyway until next time we meet Jon. Won't be next year I don't think but we will meet again!