Playing In The Cold

The Coldplay concert was epic! (I stole the photo from Brianne Rayment)

I'm sure I've told some of you that I was going, but you may not have known it was so soon. Last night a bunch of us headed out to Rexall Place to hear the Howling Bells (from Sydney Australia), Snow Patrol and of course Coldplay.

A bunch of King's people were there. I saw Lorne Prins, bumped into Tim and Karly in the parking lot, saw Meredith Rayment and others. I went with the other boys house (Ben Folkman, Gresham Veldhuisen, Peter Dykstra and Matt Gelderman) to the concert because I got my ticket through Gresham. Joel and Brian went too along with some of the girls.

The tickets were in pairs, so me and Matt sat together. We probably ended up with the best seats out of our group because of how the show went. Although the main stage was located at the other end of us, we still had decent seats because we were in the second balcony along the edge with no one in front of us. Nearing the end of the show Coldplay made there way to a mini stage in the lower level in the back of the stadium. This was a 'stone lob' away from us as Matt put it while describing it to others. It was sweet!

The lights and quality of the show is comparable to the U2 concert I went to in 2005. A combination of the amount of people (many screaming teenage girls), lights, singing along, and good music made it...well epic.

Few favorite songs of the night: Politik, Viva La Vida (the whole CD basically), Fix You, Hardest Part, and of course The Scientist.

All in all an amazing show. I'm sorry if I made anyone jealous. Rachel and Jeff I have a cd for you guys to share (basically to put on the computer) that they were handing out at the end of the show. I managed to snag two of them. You can share it with Pete and Sarah too of course. Enjoy!

- Daniel

Sleeman Male (Mail)

Today's mail was interesting. Sleeman interesting, honey brown lager intersting. The beer box arrived on time, totally filled the entire mailbox, couldn't help but notice it the minute the mailbox was opened. Dad picked it up, oh let's say around 9:45ish in the evening. You need to imagine dad walking down the street with a box of Sleeman tucked inconspicously obvious under his right arm while waving to neighbour Jan as she drove done the street. He was the Sleeman male!! Thanks Honduras Dan, we loved the pakje, the contents, the note and how it arrived. The scarf is gorgeous, the coffee smells fabulous(will try it tom. morning).

Mom