Thank you USO!

Well, it's official. Elliot Yamin wants me to run away with him...All photos under copyright protection (remember, you steal, you get my kids for a week!)

but his timing is all off.

After the hubby came through with such a great date, how could I even consider? (Now Elliot, you come around when I've had a day of nothing but diaper changes, bickering children, piles of muddy and stinking laundry, dishes reproducing in the sink and a husband who has stared at his mistress (MacBook) through it all-- then we'll talk.)




Oh, fine. He didn't want me to run away with him. He didn't even ask.

When he came up on stage, he had a "polite", respectful audience. I was close enough to see the subtle glances to his band members... "Ok, this is going to be a long set", but by the end of his second song, people now knew what they were in for and were in to it. The floor was vibrating with the foot tapping ( I can't stop my leg!) from behind me, teeny's in front of me were holding up signs "I HEART Elliott!" (put that down, can't you see I am trying to take a few hundred pictures here?)

I realized how long it's been since I've seen a live concert (um, I think it was Billy Squire, or Billy Idol... they were both in the same year--wait, it could've been Journey with opener, Bryan Adams) when the girls up front didn't pull out their lighters and sway to the music... they used their mobile phones! What a strange, new world I've been (not) sleeping through.


And speaking of "swaying",
See who is singing behind Elliot? Any American Idol season six people out there?

It was a great show (and he was polite enough to suffer through all of our "Idol" worship while probably suffering jet lag).


Never give your camera to someone shorter than you, the angle is not the most flattering...