Celine Dion!

My sister Cara and I went to the Celine Dion concert at the Energy Solutions Arena last night and it was AMAZING! Tickets to the concert went on sale in November 2007 for a scheduled November 2008 show. I don't know what happened, but about 3 days before the concert, it was rescheduled for last night. I was so bummed, as I had had tickets for about a year, but figured it would be worth the wait. Man, was I right! We didn't know exactly where our seats were going to be, but figured they weren't great. We soon found that they were on the absolute back row of the entire stadium. I was ok with it, but Cara has poor eye sight and wasn't going to be able to see much, even with the jumbo-tron. After the opening act (a comedian and impressionist named Gordy Brown, he was hilarious!) a girl that worked at the ESA came up to the people across the way from us and asked if they wanted to move down, so I piped in and said that we would also love to move down. With where our seats were, it could only get better! So she sent us down 2 levels to row 8. Much to our surprise, row 8 was the front row in the lower bowl and we were RIGHT SMACK DAB in front of the stage!! Literally, if we hopped over the little fence that was in front of us, we would have been ON the stage. We were totally pumped!

Enjoying our view from the nose bleed section

Our original view of the stage

The opening act from the jumbo-tron. I told you our seats sucked!

Our new and improved view from ROW 8!!

We were giggly and giddy the entire show, and I took a little less that 100 pictures. She was so close I even got some good pictures on my phone! Here are some more pictures of the concert. I know you guys probably aren't that interested, but I thought it was awesome!

Welcome to Salt Lake, Celine!

Doesn't it look like she's flipping the bird? She wasn't though, I promise. She was so close to us, I could see her purple eye shadow and the snake skin print on her shoes.

Gettin' down!

Outfit #2. She later ditched the cape.

Jamming with the dancers in outfit #3

She can sure put on a show!

I guess R Kelly couldn't get out of jail to perform "I'm Your Angel" with her, so this guy was the fill in. He looked right at me for a few seconds while he was singing. I, of course, was singing along at the top of my lungs.

Singing together
Outfit #4. Check out those boots! They looked like they would be a huge pain to get in and out of, but when she got closer, I could see that there was a zipper all the way up the back of them.

A closer shot of those killer shoes

Outfit #5. She was twirling her crystal covered microphone stand like a baton.

Singing "My Heart Will Go On" in outfit #6

Waving good-bye at the end of the show.

We had so much fun! She's so talented and puts on such a great show. I wanted to go to her Vegas show while I was there last year, but I'm sure this was much better. Thanks for coming with me, Cara! It was a BLAST!! And thanks for babysitting for me, Amy!