Tornado Relief Concert

If you recall my Life Planner post here... I marked July 6th with the Toby Keith benefit concert.  

In May, Oklahoma had several devastating tornados.  I wrote a little about it here. We actually had 2 concerts to raise money for the victims.  The first one was sponsored by my boyfriend, Blake Shelton.   This one was actually nationally televised, so maybe you saw it.  I actually was on 2 computers and 2 cell phones 10 minutes before these tickets went on sale... and still didn't get any.  They sold out in less than 5 minutes. How does this happen?  

I set up multiple devises again to make sure I didn't miss out on Toby Keith's concert. I was lucky to get 4 tickets, but I contribute my great fortune to my good karma :)  Anyway, I digress..  

The line-up included: 

Toby Keith

Garth Brooks

Trisha Yearwood

Kelly Coffee

Mel Tillis

Wade Hayes

Ronnie Dunn

Sammy Hagar

John Anderson

Our governor, Mary Fallen was there too.  And for good measure, our beloved football coach Bob Stoops made an appearance.  Apparently, Toby Keith has connections.

The concert was jam packed with celebrities, so the party got started at 3pm.  Did I mention that this concert was in the University of Oklahoma (Boomer Sooner!) stadium?  OUTSIDE.  It was only 95 degrees in the cool open space in my front yard, but it had to be 125 degrees in the stadium.  For real. Oh, and we missed the first couple of artists because we had a 2 mile walk to the stadium from the nearest available parking spot. I should of known better - it's not like I didn't attend every dang football game there for a couple of years.

We arrived just in time for Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood!  Trisha sang "She's in Love with the Boy". I know every single word.  Garth sang several songs, but my favorites were "The Thunder Rolls" and "The Dance".  So incredible.

Ashley, Jessica, Kendall

After Garth, Ashley and I went down to the concession area for a Margarita/Daiquiri mix.  After 45 minutes in line, we scored the very last ones!

$12 gets you 20 ounces.

Willie Nelson came out.   That's when I started to feel sick and immediately regretted the margarita.  I had to leave the stands and find a cool area - I thought I was going to join the 50 other people we saw pass out.  I stayed down in the concession area and enjoyed people watching for a while.  I've seen Willie Nelson a couple of times in concert, so I wasn't too upset.

Look at all those people!

 They said that this was the largest concert ever held in Oklahoma. 65,000 people.  That's a lot - even more than the U2/Black Eyed Peas concert we went to a couple years back.  Our stadium actually holds 90,000 people, so can you imagine what our football games are like?!  One thing that really stood out was all of the colors of clothes in the stadium. We are used to solid crimson throughout the entire stadium.

Not sure which artist was on.. not the greatest seat

It finally cooled down around 7:30pm after Sammy Hagar and the weather was PERFECT.   I had no idea who Sammy Hagar was, but everyone else seemed to.  If you are as dense as I am when it comes to rock music.. Sammy Hagar was the lead singer of Van Halen.  I have heard of Van Halen, but wouldn't be able to name one of their songs if my life depended on it.  Judge away.

Pregnant Kendall holding a beer.
Relax, it was mine :)

 Ronnie Dunn (from Brooks & Dunn) was awesome!

Oh, let me give you the line-up: 

Carrie Underwood joined us live from the Grand Ol' Opry. I was sad she couldn't be in Oklahoma with us, but she looked and sounded great. I just love her new song, "Until I See You Again". 

Lighting wasn't so great for pics

 And then there was this lady... she was a super star, let me tell you.  She danced and held her beer up for every. single. song. I loved her!

Toby Keith wrapped up the concert and of course sang "Red Solo Cup".  Not even close to my favorite Toby Keith song, but it sure does have a catchy tune.  They should have had red cups, but my guess is the clear ones are cheaper..

"I love you Red Solo Cup, I fill you up, let's have a party... "

 And the grand finale was fireworks - great show!

8 hours and $200 later (only a single t-shirt to show for it), we ventured back to our car.  Overall, a fantastic evening with some of my favorite people!