| Chapter XXXII |

Bon Jovi

Somewhat fuzzy pic of the 4 of them

(Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, and Tico Torres)

Jon Bon Jovi with the lucky audiences from the pit &

the first rows of the first 3 floor sections.

Jon Bon Jovi

So needless to say, I am still stuck in a state of euphoria from the concert.

I had such an amazing time (and that's totally understating it!).

I mean, seeing them in person just brought back *all* my childhood memories of listening to all their songs with my sister and singing a long to them. I wish she and I could have seen them together in concert but she saw them back in March and now I've seen them so I'm definitely happy for that! :-) Although, the together trip to see Bon Jovi will surely be in the works soon ;-)

We had a late start from here but I didn't even care if we saw the opening act. (Who, by the way, was Dashboard Confessional and I have already seen them back in May of 2004 at the City Market in Kansas City, MO - wow, I remember random details of things! Lol.) Anyhow, about 30 minutes or so into the drive, as we were estimating the time of arrival in Nashville, I look down at my phone and realized that the time wasn't 6:15 p.m. (as it said on the clock in the car and the GPS) but it was 5:15 p.m. and I was totally taken aback. I told my husband to check the time on his phone and it said the same thing. Then he goes, "Maybe we're in a different time zone." And I'm like, "Really? We have barely driven 40 miles from Somerset." But to be sure I searched Google for Nashville's current time and bam! Sure enough it was Central Time. I was totally surprised cause I had no idea. I've even been to Nashville before but I guess I never really paid attention. But that little mix up definitely worked in our favor. Or so we thought at the time I guess.

We did get to downtown Nashville at around 7:30 p.m. which was when the concert was scheduled to start (The venue was downtown). But after inching through traffic and finally finding a parking spot, we wound up getting out of our car at around 8 and sitting at our seats around 8:15. We did miss Dashboard Confessional but again, as I had said before, it wasn't that big of a deal.

Bon Jovi came on about 20 minutes later. They opened with the song Blood on Blood and did a phenomenal performance - not just for that song but for all their songs! I didn't think they would have done any less than that anyway ;-)

I know he isn't much of a fan so I caught glimpses of him being "bored". Of course, he was probably tired as well from working hard all day. I did feel sorry for him because we didn't stay the night in Nashville but instead drove right back and he finally got into bed around 4:30 a.m., leaving him with barely 3 and a half hours of sleep before he had to get up for work.

I definitely want to see them perform again!

Perhaps on Friday, July 23, 2010 at the Churchill Downs in Louisville? ;-) Not that I have thought that far ahead or anything. :-)

This Bon Jovi high that I'm on ain't goin' anyway anytime too soon ;-)