Detour: Waterdeep Live

i think for both sara and i, this is one of the greatest highlights of our journey. being waterdeep's two obscenely greatest fans, seeing them in their own environment was always a dream of ours. we'd get emails from their site telling us about shows in kansas city and surrounding areas, and we'd both be like, "hey, let's go." unfortunately, so far, real life had been too real to allow us the freedom to hit the road and catch a much longed-for waterdeep show. yet again, another dream becomes reality.

danielle drove us to olathe, KS (about 20 min. from her house and pronounced "oh-lay-thuh"), where we promptly got lost for about ten minutes. adventure, adventure! that's what we're all about. ;) no problem, though. we parked a ways away from the church and took a shuttle (which is our abode in the photo above) over the grounds, where the openers had just started.

we hung out on our blanket in the grass, shaded by the barn which housed the stage and cooled just right by a continuous balmy breeze. between the openers and our boys, we got some brats and diet cokes, found hidden real batherooms, deftly avoiding the port-a-pottys, and found a "frappuccino" stand for an extra kick of caffeine to properly hype us up.







and at last, the show began...



brandon (left), don (right) , and luke (not pictured) gave a show well worth the money. well, it would have been well worth any money. as it was, it was worth faaaar more than the nothing that we spent on it. sara and i might as well have been the ones picking the:

~waterdeep set list~

1. new song (we do not know the title; we'll tell you in december)
2. 900 miles
3. rollin' like a semi
4. at least i got a car
5. everybody's guilty
6. you knew
7. sweet river roll
8. sing with great affection
9. let the name of God be high
--intermission--
(in which we went and bought the only cd of theirs we don't have and got it signed and talked to don, reminding him who we were)
10. confessions of a broken-down man
11. scared (technical difficulties, i.e. don's mic stopped working so we, the loyal fans, sang the chorus)
12. give me my walkman, mom (new)
13. crazy, crazy, crazy world (new)
14. gospel train
15. to chase away the birds
16. whether or not
17. 18 bullet holes
18. oh, that You would be
19. You are so good to me

it was absolutely incredible as sara and i sang along to every song, even picking up the new ones. afterwards, we got another copy of the cd so that we could both have signed copies, and after chatting some more with don about having to swerve into oncoming traffic on state line drive (i think) in kansas city in order to drive in both states and other things, we hailed brandon from the stage where he was putting away his drums. he came over, and we reminded him of who we were (jammin' java, apple pie, etc.), got his signature, talked for a good while, and asked him if there was any way we could get a hold of his wife christina's old stuff. so then we talked to her and she promised to burn us a copy and mail it to us! they are awesome people. so down to earth. so real. that's a lot of what we love about them. they liked our road trip thing, too. it was the perfect end to a perfect evening, and sara and i were on top of the world!


~susi and sara