U2 360 Tour

Sometime in 2009, we bought two tickets to the U2 360 tour in Denver.  Two weeks before the show in June of 2010, the show was moved to 2011 because Bono (lead singer) had emergency back surgery in Germany.  Exactly one year after his surgery, Bono and the rest of U2 took the stage in Denver at Invesco Stadium at Mile High.

Two weeks prior to the show, we lined up a baby sitter for the boys.  She was girl we knew well and the boys liked.  She graduated from high school the day before the concert.  I had texted her to confirm she was baby sitting.  She wrote back to confirm she would see us at 4:30 on Saturday.  At 4:40 I called her. At 4:45 I texted her.  At 5:00, 5:15 and 5:30 I called again.  We went into desperate mode to find child care.  All of our avenues came up empty.  Even though Keith and I were so looking forward to dinner with our friends and a night out at the U2 concert, Keith stayed home with the boys and I went to the show.  It was hard to go our separate ways after the high anticipation for a great night out.  A HUGE Thank You to my amazing husband who took one for the team to take care of our munchkins while I went to the show.  We figured at least one of us should go.  I tried to get in touch with the baby sitter again on Monday and have yet to hear from her.  We are actually a little worried about her.  Hopefully everything is OK.

I missed dinner, but met up with our friends at the stadium.  There were several of us at the show, but only Jen, Craig and I (and Keith) had seats together.  On our way up to our extreme nose bleed seats we saw the transportation needed for the U2 stage.

Jen and Craig headed up to our seats.

Jen and Carrie on our way to our seats.

The stage was the most amazing that I have ever seen.  It was almost unbelievable.

The Fray kicked us off as the opener.

The stadium filling in.

Craig and Jen watching The Fray.

Craig, Jen and Carrie watching The Fray.

Craig missing Keith.

Between The Fray and U2 we went to check out the merchandise.  I caught Craig with his hood up.  Come on buddy, it wasn't THAT cold.  After days and days of rain, the skies finally cleared up for one evening.  We even found this amazing sky line to take pictures in front of.

Jen and Craig

The evening was an emotional roller coaster.  We were excited for a night out and then it fell apart with a missing baby sitter.  I was missing Keith quite a bit.  After saving a considerable amount of money on dinner and a baby sitter, I decided to buy an outrageously priced t-shit at $40.  I was going for the conservative t-shirt but Jen and Craig talked me into the one I got.  I must say, I do love it!

Craig was loving my camera and took a bazillion pictures of the great t-shirt try-on.  Jen and I may have been having a little fun too.  It felt good to have a good laugh after the crazy start to the evening.

Sweater off.

T-shirt going on.

Ta-Da!

$40 concert t-shirt in action.

Jen and Carrie having fun.

Ok, enough horsing around.  Time for the main attraction.

U2 took the stage shortly before 9:00 and played for the next two hours.  It is the second time I have seen them and it was one of the most amazing shows I have ever seen.  I was sad that Keith missed it from the sheer engineering stand point of the stage.  I think he would have been amazed.

Super Zoom from the Extreme Nose Bleed Seats.

Craig, Jen and Carrie loving the show!

Jen and Carrie

The circular screen came down like a honey comb.

Toward the end, Bono asked everyone to raise up their lights.  Most of these lights

 are cell phones.

Jen and Carrie outside of Invesco Field.

Craig, Jen and Carrie having a street vendor burrito for the drive home.

The show was amazing.  It was great fun to hang out with Jen and Craig.  I missed Keith dearly.  Maybe next time it will be all four of us together again.

I have several video clips that I would love to share but I am still unable to upload videos.  I'm not sure if it's the new camera format or computer.  I did manage to get this one small clip up.  Who knows?  Maybe the files are too large.   Time to experiment.