This post contains swooning, gushing, giggling, squealing and sighing... You've been warned.
I have returned and somewhat recovered from my 2007 Keith Urban experience. Everything I say is going to make me sound like a giggly teenager. The concert was excellent. I've seen him in concert five times, and he just gets better and better. He's an amazing entertainer. Oh. My. God. Seriously, OMG. He's so sexy that he should wear a warning label. Sigh... He dedicated a song to his wife for sticking by him when he was in rehab. How sweet is that? So romantic...
One big change to the show itself was the addition of a 60-foot screen (well actually, how the hell would I know how tall it is? It was really really tall.). You could watch him on the stage or watch a sixty-foot version of him on the screen. OMG, sixty feet of Keith Urban? I about keeled over in a dead faint. I will say though that with an image that big, it's pretty easy to see every line and whisker on his face. Yum. Thoroughly yum.
I'm always warned by MimiJr that I need to behave myself when I'm in Columbus, and not embarrass her. I have a tendency to make fun of all the positively rabid OSU Buckeye fans. I'm not really a fan, and she knows it, and I'm a smart ass, and she knows it, so I always get "the look". Buckeye football is a religion for some, and I have a hard time keeping my sacriligeous remarks to myself. The concert was in the arena on campus. I swear I almost got a contact high from all the scarlet and gray everywhere.
The biggest ovation he got was when he came out for the encore, wearing a Buckeyes football jersey. Number 33. Totally clueless, I said who's number 33? "Only their best player, Mom... Sheesh." She told me his last name, but I don't remember what it is. It sounded like a disease though.
MimiJr and one of her friends are seeing him again next week in Indianapolis. I was invited to go, and also invited to pay for the tickets. Ummmmmm, no. Actually, I'd love to go, but I would have a mighty hard time justifying another $300 or so.
It was every bit of what I hoped it would be. Expectations met and exceeded.
I am a happy girl.
