Puuuh! With the theory FINALLY out of the way, let me tell you about last Tuesday when Karoline and I went to see Pink at the O2 arena.. ! the whole day was 50 % constant stress ("running as fast as we could" as Pink sings in her song "just like a pill",) and 50 % constant joy, but the concert being so great it pretty much made up for all the stress.. Anyways... From the beginning: The bus from Cambridge left at 17:30, and Karoline was finished at school at 17:00 = STRESS!! That has to be the fastest we have ever ridden out bikes down to town! But we made the bus and could relax.. The car theory book was of course with me so I pretty much read the whole way.. The bus was delayed and when we got to the bus station it was only a little over half an hour until Pink was going on stage… So we had to run to the underground station and catch the first train to the arena.. Got off at Greenwich station and ran as fast as we could towards the arena. Got by security with our cameras which are not allowed in the arena (they don’t want “professional” photos taken by others then themselves) The security guy wouldn’t first let us by, but when we said that we came aaaaaaall the way from Norway for this concert (that line works every time!) he let us in, but we had to promise we wouldn’t take any pictures or else we would get kicked out. So we happily entered the arena and again, we ran towards our entrance which of course was as far as you could go..The concert was just about to start according to the speakers… puuuh! At entrance 422 all the way at the very top and the very last door we found our seats and could finally take a break.
And the concert could start! Concerts has to be my favorite thing in the world! Aaah! Just watching someone so famous standing there in front of you on a stage singing songs you know all the words to and you can just sing and dance along as much as you want! Nothing like it. Pink, or Alicia Moore, which is her real name has to be one of the most genuine singers out there.. she is 100 % herself all the time and she has such a nice voice. We had an awesome time during the whole concert and we also took pictures (you can’t keep all your promises all of the time! Sorry Mr. Security guy) She sang pretty much every song I wanted to hear: Who knew, dear Mr. president, trouble, stupid girls, funhouse, bad influence, sober, so what, please don’t leave me, family portrait, just like a pill+++ WICKED!!
The last bus for Cambridge left London at 23:30, so to catch it we had to leave a bit early, and again… we had to run! It took at least half an hour by the underground to the bus station if we were lucky and all the trains were on time, and standing there waiting for the first train at 23:00, it was pretty clear we were not going to make it… But with some smart thinking we found out we could catch the bus from another bus stop we thought it might stop at (?) It was a bit risky, but we didn’t have much of a choice… so jumped off the underground and ran as fast we could towards the “bakerloo” train.. It was just about to depart, so we jumped inn right as the doors were closing. We then noticed we were on the wrong train… we were supposed to be on the northbound, this was the south bound.. Great! 10 minutes until the bus left, but there was nothing left to do but get off at the next station and take the northbound train up again… so we did that and….ran.. to the bus stop we thought the bus might stop at. Aaah stress!! But we made it just in time and the bus stopped there… puuh! We were exhausted and we both fell asleep on the way home… No more running for a while I tell ya!
Here are more pictures from the concert:
She's totally looking straight into our camera!
I love her smile :-)
