Saturday, October 27, 2007

I really like Jimmy Buffett. Well I’ve never really met the man, but I sure like his music. He never seems to play concerts in the Northwest so yesterday I flew to Las Vegas and tonight attended one of his concerts with my brother, my sister-in-law, and 9,998 of our closet friends. What a hoot!!! As the date approached, my brother said to me, “So what will you be wearing for a costume?” Costume!?! Well it is almost Halloween. “No,” he said, “everybody will be wearing pirate costumes, or wearing flowered shirts, or parrot heads or shark fins or flashy things!” And he was right. We arrived early to appreciate them and I wandered around with my iPhone asking folks if I could take their pictures.

This is unlike me. I am more the shy-shoot-candids-with-a-long-telephoto-lens-from-behind-a-duck-blind kind of guy. But people were nice and seemed in a festive mood. Maybe the Landshark Lager and the Margaritaville Tequila for sale in the lobbies mellowed them. The couple below on the right gave me a little flashy star to wear. I guess my “costume” wasn’t complete without one.

The house was packed. Music was loud (I love sound you can feel) and everybody was singing and swaying and performing little rituals at various points in his songs. One of the lines in a crowd pleasing favorite goes, “fin to the left, fin to the right, and you’re the only bait in town.” At which point people make a fin above their head with their arms and sway first to the left and then to the right. The second photo below is “fin to the left” I think, as you face the stage.

On the way down, clear skies and Alaska Airlines gave us nice views of Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood.

I’ve got some more costume pics if you’re interested.

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