Looking back....(this will be long)

BONOLULU!!!!!!!!



Man, I can't believe it. It's been a week since U2 played Hawaii, or as I have come to call it with influence from some friends---BONOLULU!

I told myself that I needed to post about it here. I had hoped to come back here and to my VLOG in a triumphant shout with videos and many pictures. Sadly, I was not able to secure a lot of pictures due to my camera puttering out as well as my cameraphone. I WAS able to get some pictures and I will post those here....

But what I lack in pictures, I have memories in abundance....sort of. I need to write them down, anyway.



I got off of work at 3(!) in the morning. I had heard over the radio that Aloha Stadium was closing the early parking at midnight and would re-open at 4am. My boss told me I should check if it's AM or PM, but I was fairly sure it was AM. It was off to the gas station and WalMart and on to the Stadium I go!



That's my Jeep. I covered it, haha. Got to the Stadium at about 4:15-ish in the AM, and got in the line. We were all separated in pens. I made it in the 2nd one.





The first pic was the line when I sat down. I talked to this guy David who lined up after me. I ate a little bit, tried to read, took a few pictures (like that second one) and eventually fell asleep for an hour or so.



Looked like this when I woke up looking at this line...



So, I ended up lounging in my chair listening to stellastarr* and reading Blender and realizing that I probably brought too much. I met up with my friend Kath and got my ticket. YAY. :) Then I fell asleep again. Woke up at around 11:30am and remembering that security said we had to clear our stuff by noon...I got up, hiked all the way back to my Jeep and chucked my stuff in there.

Our pen had some sort of pack mentality going on. As soon as one dude lined up, the whole line moved.





Eventually some smart people rebelled and stayed in the shade. I joined too, and sat down and fell asleep while sitting. Hey, I was running on 2-3 hours of sleep! That third picture was the 3rd pen, behind us. Notice they're not really lining up. Neither were the 1st pen, I later found out.

Finally, around 4pm, we were finally starting to queue up to finally GET IN the Stadium.



It was kind of queuing up for a rollercoaster ride, all windy and stuff. I met two sisters from New York. Or Jersey. I can't remember. I do know one works in NYC. I ended up hanging with them, which was cool. They were great. :)



Just something that caught my eye. I'm weird like that, I know.



David, The Sisters, and me. waiting to get in. Third try we got David in! Haha.



About to go in!!!!!



This is where I ended up. Maybe 2-3 people from the rail by the right walkway. Not bad. I WAS IN THE ELLIPSE.

And hereby be the few pics I could get live(all on cameraphone. These were the ones that I could expand. The others are too small. :( yep.)



My current wallpaper. Yeeeeesh!




BONOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

A lot of concert clips are starting up on YouTube, and a number of good pics are lining up on Flickr as well. Check them out!

U2 Hawaii pics on Flickr

U2 Hawaii clips on YouTube

Awesome show. They encored with Pearl Jam (who were awesome, and did a great cover of the late Bruddah Iz's "Hawaii '78" seen HERE It's amazing. Watch it.)

Billy Joe from Green Day performed "The Saints are Coming" with U2. That was mega, and so was hearing "Window In The Skies."

The show was unbelievable, and well worth the 12+ hours of waiting, dead cameras and sore feet. :)

I would definitely travel to see U2 again, but I hope to God they come to Hawaii again!