Concert withdrawal

The question of the day - Was it worth it? You bet! And just to dispell the suspense...yes the shore captain did make it at the appointed hour to accompany me. It was a beautiful, sunny day with a bit of a breeze and made for a festive day.

On the drive we joined an ever increasing throng of rock n roll pilgrims heading into the city, stopped at a Tim Hortons drive through for sandwiches and bottles of water and dropped our stuff at daughter # 2s before heading off with our packed knapsack and folding chairs as if we were running away from home. The secret to being 'hard core groupies' is, we have discovered to limit water intake to 500 mls and food to two granola bars so as to not have to leave your spot for sustenance or biological break at the porta potties.

Too bad that instead of the shore captain driving while I read the paper, I was the chaffeur and he took a power nap. This prevented me from finding out that the lawn chairs posted on the 'allowed list' for the event meant binoculars would be needed to see the stage from where you were permitted to place chairs. So mister made an executive decision to chuck the chairs on the growing pile of other non-informed ticket holders and we headed towards the crush in front of the stage. Managed to score a spot about 25 ft. back and directly in front of the action and it was a wonderful show which we would have regretted not attending with 60,000 others, many having traveled long distances from Japan etc.

The opening acts were good but there was a reason the mayor declared July 11th Paul McCartney Day and Sir Paul did not disappoint and he certainly did not look as if he was having his 68th birthday in August. Did a good mix of oldies all the way to the present and the pyrotechnics with Live and Let Die were amazing! More details from the newspaper here:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1131947.html

We walked back to daughter # 2s apartment, grateful that she'd set up our bed to crash in and were asleep before our heads hit the pillows at midnight. Up and off to Smitty's for breakfast and on the road in the drizzle. A stop at the Lunenburg Craft Festival where we picked up a pair of earrings, a candle, lip balm, dried cherries, local wine and a kit to crochet my own mat. We also decided we were amazed at the talent in the Maritimes and that we were capable of making many of the beautiful crafts ourselves if....we were retired! But since we're not I'm off to catch on some much needed shut eye.