No Cities to Love....

We just got home from the Sleater-Kinney show at House of Blues in Boston.  In a last-minute switcheroo, we actually took Lucy with us.  We bought the tickets back in October, before we realized what a fan Lucy was going to become.  The plan was that we were going with Elizabeth; Ian was going to hang out with Lucy for the evening.  Perfect!  But over the past few months, Lucy has been listening to the new Sleater-Kinney album, No Cities to Love, and singing along and dancing and listening with rapt attention to their interviews on the radio.  So we went into stealth mode, telling Elizabeth & Ian to NOT tell her who we were going to see.

Then Elizabeth called this afternoon and said that she was pretty sure it was an all-ages show, and that she would be glad to give up her ticket for Lucy to go.

Yikes! 

We offered it to Lucy, and her face lit up.  She *was* disappointed that she wasn't going to spent the evening hanging out with Uncle Ian, but the thought of Sleater-Kinney was super exciting to her.

Lucy has previously been to two big shows.  The first was They Might be Giants when she was four months old, as pictured here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jakeb/2371604259/
Understandably, she does not remember much of that show (she was asleep in the Baby Bjorn for most of it).  She saw They Might Be Giants again in 2010: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jakeb/4636697316 and tells us that she remembers the confetti canon (of course).

We were worried, as the show's opening act was scheduled to start at 8pm, which is already just about her bedtime.

But it turned out great.  She was into the opening act, and very interested in all the action on the stage.  We were *extremely* lucky, because we had standing room only tickets (we didn't realize this and thought we had seats).  But an usher came up to us when she saw Lucy and said, "would you like some folding chairs?" YES!  And then, she took the folding chairs, walked right to the edge of the balcony and set them up for us with a terrific view of the stage.  It was amazing (we thanked her profusely).  We would not have lasted long -- any of us -- if we had had to stand for the whole show.

The show was tremendous and loud and wonderful and awesome.  Lucy had a great time.  I'm pretty sure she was the youngest person there.  A guy sitting behind us was very excited to see her and said it gives him hope, because he has a couple young daughters at home.  A couple of other people smiled and one woman even said "Thank you for bringing your daughter!!!"  It was pretty great.

Lucy sang along, clapped, and was fascinated by all of it, from her ear plugs to the crazy stage lights and backdrop, to the awesome, raging performances coming from the stage.

I couldn't be happier.

Plumbing woes, weather worries, and the late hour of bedtime were quickly forgotten.

She's in bed now, and I'm heading there myself.  We have many cities we love.