Monson Family: est. 8.15.09: "Just another American Saturday night" with Brad Paisley

We got free tickets to the Brad Paisley/Darius Rucker/Justin Moore concert a couple weeks ago and yesterday was the day. We left at noon and arrived at 3:00. We had to wait in line outside, then wait again inside. They had the main seating blocked off until "6:00" probably because there were some acts on a smaller stage. A couple people ran under the rope and chaos ensued so they just let us all in at like 5:30 because they couldnt stop hundreds of people. We found our spot on the hill and waited a few more hours.

These people next to us were smoking. We were trying to fan it away from Sawyer because we knew there was nothing else we could do- it was legal to smoke outside and there was not a square inch of extra space that we could move to. Some girls behind us yelled at them "they have a baby and the smoke is going into his face" so the old couple started to walk down the hill whenever they had to. That lasted until the concert started at dark and they stopped leaving so every 5 minutes (yes that often) we had to fan him :( Even though a lot of people around us were making comments like "WE HAVE LUNGS" and "ITS GETTING THE BABY". It makes me so mad! If you have a dirty habit and either you will have to suffer waiting a while, or 20 people around you have to suffer inhaling cancerous toxins (including a baby) you think people wouldnt be so selfish as to make the 20 people suffer. It is your dirty habit, you can be uncomfortable for a couple hours. Especially because towards the end some punk-looking drunk 20-something year old came next to us and lit up and andy was like "hey i have a baby" and he was like "oh my god, i am so sorry, i didnt see!" and went far away.

That aside, the concert was awesome! The Gorge has always been my favorite venue because of the view. Sawyer was so good- didnt cry or anything and was only hungry at convenient times. Justin Moore was good, played the only 3 songs i knew. Darius Rucker was awesome- i didnt expect him to play any of his old Hootie and the Blowfish songs but he did, along with his new country hits. Brad Paisley was awesome with a cool backstage light up thing going to the music and playing every song i would want to hear. He even played old songs like "celebrity" and "mud on the tires". It was definitely worth the drive, wait, and sore feet (one of my boots was tearing up my feet while the other fit perfect). We ended up getting home at 3am and i dont know how andy did it because i slept the whole time.