Feelin’ Good!
That’s what Michael Buble does to a soul…makes them feel REAL good! We just got back, it’s 11:58 and I have to say, what an amazing experience. Yes, an experience. That’s the only way to describe his concert. It was so fabulous. The man is hilarious. He’s so freakin’ funny my cheeks hurt from laughing so hard. It’s been very cold here and one of the first things he said when he got on the stage was (very seriously), “I’d like us all to bow our heads for a moment of silence as we remember all those poor souls who froze to death on their way here from their parking spots!” And then he laughs. He’s so cute, he laughs all the time because he knows he’s funny.
But I’m getting ahead of myself like usual. We went to the concert with 3 other couples (who happen to be not only some of our dearest friends, but also our family), Kevin and Charmaign, Clint and Elin and Darrell and Kathy. We started out having supper together (Darrell and Kathy met us at the concert) at Moxie’s. I must interject here that I tried salmon for the first time (I didn’t order it, but tried some of Clint’s). I don’t do seafood, but I thought since my goal was to start breaking out of my mold I’d be brave and try something new. But I digress. On the way from the restaurant to the concert I said to Jer that we should take a picture of ourselves. So I proceeded to take a nice self-portrait of us. After reviewing the picture I said he looked kind of squinty, could we take another one.
This is the second result…
I don’t know your thoughts on it, but I think squinting is definitely preferable!!!
Anyway, when you go to a concert it’s always a surprise as to who’s going to open for the main act (unless you knew ahead of time who the opening act is, then it’s not a surprise, but we didn’t know, so it was) and once again we were not disappointed. Naturally 7 opened for Michael and I have to say I enjoyed them just as much as Michael. In a different sort of way. You can’t compare apples to oranges, so I feel no guilt what-so-ever in saying I liked them equally. Okay…maybe a smidge. Kind of reminiscent of the guilt that I had saying I was going to wear my “Josh Shoes” to Michael…which I didn’t by the way, it was far too cold, so I wore boots, which have now been dubbed “Bubbly Boots” by my husband. I know, I know, he’s weird…what? I am too? I know, two peas in a pod, that’s us. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes, Naturally 7…
This bunch of boys is supremely talented. They do what is called “vocal play”. It’s similar to acapella in the way that there is no instruments, but the difference is that they ARE the instruments. They imitate all the different instruments in a band so well that you cannot tell that there are actually NO instruments accompanying them. Impressive, no? I thought so. I was completely blown away. I urge you to go look them up on YouTube…or you can just watch this, aren’t I nice? I’ve done the work for you. You must remember when watching their videos, that every single sound, I repeat EVERY single sound is made by them. It’s awesome.
On to Michael…ah, Michael…he.is.da.BOMB!!! Seriously. And he’s Canadian. 100% pure Canadian goodness. It may be cold up here, but we got some hotness going on! (besides me, of course) I don’t even know where to begin to tell you all the funny things he did. Some highlights for me were: some random girl screamed “I love you Michael” and he screamed back “I love you too, stranger in the darkness!” or when he sang 4 of my favorite songs all in a row…”Lost,” “Feelin’ Good,” “Home,” and “Everything” and then he starts ranting about how mushy it’s getting and that it’s got to stop. That he’s going to bring some manliness back to the show and he gets all the guys hyped up and yelling and then he starts singing “YMCA!” Too funny. Or when he said that Naturally 7 wanted him to be in their group because he had the right look and the right moves and then he proceeded to demonstrate why he should be in the group by putting his finger in his mouth and making a popping noise on his cheek and some random farting noises. Or when he was in the middle of one of his songs and he started beat-boxing…I just about peed my self on more than one occasion. I said I was probably going to cry at some point, I just didn’t realize it would be from laughing until my sides hurt! Ah…
And as for his singing performance. I can’t begin to tell you how good he is. He is a natural. He is the ultimate performer and entertainer. He is so freakin’ talented that even if he had no stage presence at all he’d still be fabulous (not to mention he is not hard on the eyes…I’m just sayin’)
Here was our view from row 19…moments like these when I wish my camea had a real zoom and it’s kind of fuzzy because I turned the flash off (Louise has better pictures because she was closer and has a nicer camera!).
And here’s a relatively nice picture of Jer and I (he behaved himself this time)…
And what could end the evening off better than an Iced Cappuccino from Timmy’s. Yes, even on the coldest day of the year, it’s still good.
