www.kevinkmp.com

Take me directly to the comment form

A Rainy Night of Stevie

Last night, Nora and I went to go see Stevie Wonder play a concert at Northerly Island on the edge of Lake Michigan here in Chicago. It's a beautiful place for a concert, except for when it's pouring rain.

After more than an hour on the train to travel the whopping 7 miles from the northside todowntown (thanks for being slow like always, CTA), we emerged from the train tunnel onto State Street to see the streets absolutely gridlocked with traffic due to the pouring rain. So we had to run (literally) from the train all the way to the venue...in the rain. By the time we got there, it was 8:30pm and the show was supposed to start at 8pm. They were delaying the start waiting for the rain to clear up!

As we finally arrived at the venu, they scanned our tickets and as we walked in we saw that the staff was handing out ponchos to all of the concert goers. How nice of them, right? Well, yes, but that's when it got kind of weird... Nora explains it perfectly here and here.

Finally Stevie came out and told the crowd that he just couldn't play in the rain, but that he would be back the next night (tonight) to play the show. So we're going to give it another try and hope that we can get to the venue faster tonight. Wish us luck!