So biggest, most exciting, definitely most blogged-about part of my summer happened on Wednesday. I went to see The Fray. :) Oh, and Jack's Mannequin too. They were good, but kind of boring compared to my boyfs.

So anyways, the trip down there was long and tedious. Just lotsa driving. But we DID find this AMAZING lil' Frenchy restaurant called CrepeMaker. They had the yummiest crepes. And they weren't just dessert crepes, although they had those too. But they were like wraps, just thrown into a crepe instead of a tortilla. Like, my mom got a pesto chicken crepe, Erin got a pizza crepe, just with pizza sauce and cheese and 'ronis. Jaime got a ham & cheese crepe, which was basically just an amazingly better version of a Hot Pocket, and I got a Tex-Mex crepe, with yummy chicken and tomatos and salsa and cheese and lettuce... Basically a taco salad wrapped up in a crepe. Soooooooooo deelish.

So then we were off to the concert. Jaime bought a Jack's Mannequin shirt, I bought The Fray's. We sort of had a rivalry. But I totally won. :) After purchasing our shirts, we sat in our seats. Not my favorite seats in the world, but still better than the yucky lawn seats over half the audience had. We at least had seats, not blankets. When the concert finally started, this funny group called Vedera, veeery specifically pronounced VAY-deh-raaaah, not Vuh-Dare-Uh, like the rest of America and I would have pronounced it, came on. They were aight. (Yes I am Randy Jackson, thank you for asking.) They played a few songs, but no one really paid any attention to them. Then Jacky-Poo came on. They started out with Dark Blue (my fave. good choice, guys), complete with blue lights all over the stage. And the rest of their songs were good too, but I only knew a handful of them. oh! and as luck would have it, Jaime didn't upload the videos that were already on her video camera, so we had zero, let me repeat that, zero video cameras available to record this momentous occasion. So I only recorded two vids from the entire night. Boo. Dark Blue was one of the songs that I started out recording, but deleted it as soon as The Fray came on. Sorry Jacky-poo.


(Please ignore my doublechin in the ^^above picture...)

So the Fray came on. They started out with a kind of fuzzy one note, with lotsa feedback and stuff, and at first I thought it was just the mics and stuff screwing up because it took them 45 minutes to set up the stage & gear & such (which, turns out they STILL didn't get all right, some of the light panels on the right side of the stage were out), but then one lone spotlight shone down from the middle of the stage on Isaac, and he started singing Happiness, basically acappella minus the one feedbacky note. Ooooooooooooh baby it was COOL. I even started tearing up a lil bit. So he sang about the first three lines of the song that way, then aaaaaaall the lights came on and they started in to Over My Head. That was by far the coolest part. Throughout the night they played Absolute, Say When, Where the Story Ends, Ungodly Hour, Syndicate, How to Save a Life, Never Say Never, She Is, Little House, & You Found Me (obviously). Approximately in that order. Jaime and Erin kept making fun of the light panels in the background. For example, during Say When, they had a giant parrot flying around displayed on the light panels behind the band (don't ask me why, it's probably some crazy musician's metaphor). So then when Isaac would raise his arms during the chorus, they would raise their arms too, and start flapping them around like the parrot, making fun of Isaac. Meanies. But Erin kept calling it a 'rainbow bird', instead of a parrot. Which was funny.
They ended the official show with You Found Me, but then came back on for the encore and sang Look After You, All At Once, and Kanye's Heartless! :) But in the middle of Look After You, they started singing the chorus of "Man In The Mirror" by MJ!! Everyone was singing along, and Isaac just made it his "little tribute to the legendary musician". That was probably my other favorite part. That and physically being in the crowd that "all at once... began to sing, sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same". That was a DREAM COME TRUE for me. So basically it was amazing. Arguably the best night of my life. To date, anyway.