Elton John Show

I got us tickets to this show for our 5th anniversary. Neither of us are super fans or anything, but Sir Elton John is a legend. I knew I'd regret it if I didn't go. And tickets (cheap seats) were only $40.

Megan's mom watched Ozzie so we could go out-just the two of us-for only the 3rd time in the almost 5 months that Ozzie's been here.

I have a 2012 Kia Soul, and they gave erroneous MPGs for them when I bought it, so anytime I want I can submit my mileage and get money from them. I do it once a year around now for Christmas presents, and used it to take us to Mancini's Char House up West 7th from the Xcel.
We had a really good steak dinner courtesy of Kia, and Mancini's has a free bus that runs to and from the Xcel, so I was able to leave my car in their lot.

The bus dropped us off around 7:40 for the 8:00 show. We navigated our way up, up, up to our seats. Elton sat at his piano at 8:05 and played his heart out for two and a half hours. Take a look at the setlist (I know it's for the Erie, PA show, but it was the same for us).

At 66 years old, he still has it. He can't hit the falsetto anymore on Benny and The Jets, or Crocodile Rock, but he left it to us, the audience. It was great to see that he really loves to play music, and he's not just in it for the money in his later years. He took the classics that I've heard a million times and gave them a bluesey or jazzy twist. He didn't completely change them, but tweaked them just enough to freshen them up.  He had four black female backup singers with soul.

My favorite moment from the night was when he dedicated the next song to a guy in the front row. Elton knew his name, and said that he's fighting a battle (I saw in the paper today that he has hodgkin's lymphoma) and played Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me. After the song the guy crawled up on the stage and Elton gave him a hug. The song has a whole new meaning to me now.

It was nice to get out of the house and do grown up stuff for a bit.