Almost Time!

Well! The Strolling Bones...er, Rolling Stones are nearly upon us. In honour of the event, my parents are actually closing the business tomorrow and will drive up from CB in the morning with my uncle - dodgy Jeep and all. They should be here by lunchtime, but will have to amuse themselves until I get home from work. Luckily, it's going to be a nice day tomorrow so I'm sure they'll have a grand time strolling the waterfront downtown. They won't want to hang out at our place, anyway - at long last (and about three months late), workmen are due to arrive tomorrow and start putting a new roof on the house. Talk about lousy timing.

The concert is Saturday afternoon/evening. According to a friend of ours who is working security, as of last week there had been approximately 35,000 tickets sold - and the Commons can accommodate up to 60,000. There's a crazy confluence of events in town this weekend, and the whole city will be heaving. Saturday night, in addition to the Stones show, there's an exhibition hockey game at the Metro Centre between the New York Islanders and the Boston Bruins, another concert by Sarah Harmer at the Cohn, and the closing of the Atlantic Film Festival. Whew.

Unfortunately, at the moment, the weather office is forecasting a 40% chance of showers on Saturday. Argh. We'll have to go to the Commons armed with our waterproofs. The security and promoters seem determined to make this outdoor show as uncomfortable as possible - amongst the list of forbidden items are chairs of any kind, coolers, umbrellas, and all food and drink (so you'll spend even more money at the concession stands, of course). So we'll just have to make the best of it. But the Stones - not to mention Kanye West - will be worth it, I'm sure!