Not to be totally outdone by scott...

If you read Mookiedaddy's blog today, you'll see he had a jam packed week of music. Saturday he went to the city to see My Bloody Valentine...But being the sickies we are, Bella and I stayed home. Then we decided that home wasn't good enough for us, so thru the coughing and muscle aches, we drove a whole 5 minutes from our house to the Sears Center, dumped the car off, and took advantage of being Hoffman Estates Residents and took a FREE tourbus shuttle to the opening of a local strip mall where one of my ex top 5's took the stage for FREE, Chris Isaak.

We were so glad we didn't stay bums at home. Not only did Bella have the time of her life sitting in the very front seat on our own personally chauffeured tour bus (seems like nobody took advantage of the free parking, we were pretty much the only ones on the plush bus (and we got there only 15 mins before showtime), but then we got nice lawn seats for the show (the place was packed, but we did get lucky! And so we wrapped up in the blanket and had a good time listening to Chris and his band play. Bella liked him, he was dressed in his RED touring suit. My favorite of his suits is his Mirrorball suit, but he wasn't wearing that one that night. Bella practiced dancing and jumping to songs like Somebody's Crying, Baby did a bad bad thing, etc.
Too bad we didn't get there a bit earlier as he came out into the audience and sang and hugged people. I think I would have crapped myself if Bella and I had moved up about 20 feet to the right.

Chris was his funny self telling stories and jokes to the audience, he is one of the only entertainers at concert venues who speaks so clearly you can actually understand every word. And he totally has our sense of perverted humor so it's like seeing a concert and a comedy all in one night. God how I've missed his concerts!!

We didn't stay for the whole thing, it got to be Bella's bedtime, so we headed back where we did get our very own fancy tourbus to take us to the car. Bella thought it was awesome to finally sit in a vehicle's front seat.

Now Bella has been saying "Chris Isaak"...so she is getting herself schooled in music big time. This marked her 8th concert (I believe, though it might be 9th).