What's On My Happy List?

The BOYS came to town!

There are some absolute neccessities in my life. MY FAMILY, MY FAITH, FOOD, FRIENDS and listening to IL DIVO MUSIC. I'm afraid I couldn't exist happily without my top five. Since IL DIVO's music has such a huge impact in my life you can imagine how much attending their concert here in Salt Lake meant to me. It was a dream come true and one of THE most memorable nights of my life. Half the fun was realizing that I wasn't the only IL DIVO fan in Utah as I was surrounded by thousands of their adoring fans. In fact SALT LAKE CITY LOVES IL DIVO!!!! The crowd was amazing...and reacted wwaayyyy beyond my expectations. They gave the boys no less than seven standing ovations or maybe that was just me? LOL but needless to say I was thrilled to death and am certain I stood more than 7 times. The songs that garnered the most applause were...Somewhere...Bridge Over Troubled Water...Senza Catene..Notte di Luce...PQTME...Adagio...and My Way... The crowd went absolutely NUTSO over Adagio. That received the longest Standing O and I think the boys were even a little taken back by the crowd's response. After the last song, My Way, the crowd went wild again. Standing, screaming, cheers, stomping of the feet on the metal stands which produced a rumbling roar ...it was crazy! All done in an effort to get the boys to come back out for an encore. Because of my insider knowledge from being a forum diva I knew they were coming back out to sing two more songs but I kept yelling my little heart out anyway. The crowd was still standing when Sebastien came out for Amazing Grace (walking right past us mind you) and stayed standing until the end. You could just feel the love pouring from the fans...it truly was electrifying.


Some of other highlights for me...

* Sharing 7th row seats with my sister in the orchestra pit...beyond AMAZING. Worth every single darn penny that we spent for those tickets.

* Waving the little French, USA, Spain, and Swiss flags that I brought with me. Got me one of those infamous winky blinks from Urs and a smile and nod from Carlos.

* A little old lady was pulled close up to the stage by her middle aged son so that she could wave (very timidly) to Carlos. Carlos acknowledged her and the crowd cheered. So endearing!

*My outfit that I was wearing. It was very carefully thought out as it HAD to be IL DIVO'ish. (what ever that is lol) but I knew when I put the pieces together that it was "IT".

*Sebastien almost tripped coming down the steps the very first time. LOL

*Watching David sing Adagio. Unbelievable! He sang it with his whole heart and soul and you could feel his emotion. It was absolutely breathtaking.

Too bad that David is cut out of most of this video..but at least you get an idea

*There were some steps leading down into the orchestra pit where we were sitting. Carlos had his foot over the edge and acted as if he was going to walk down the steps to come join us. What a tease. We hooted!!

*Watching a lady sitting two rows ahead of us shaking her head in awe. And I know I did the same thing to my sister several times. There are moments in some of these songs that there are just no words to describe them. It makes you just want to burst into tears. Those moments are Heavenly!

*After Sebastien sang "SHE" you could tell he let out this big breath at the end as if he had given that song his all. What a sweetie!

*The new people I got to meet. Everyone was just so giddy and happy to be there. It was fabulous meeting people that love these guys as much as I do.

*The sign I brought and held up after Senze Catene...It said YOU HAVE STOLEN MY HEART SSSHHHH! DON'T TELL MY HUSBAND. ( Believe it or not Jaren even helped me come up with that. It was great fun trying to come up with a catchy slogan together. What a guy!) I didn't know if any of the guys were able to see it to read it but Lisa (from the forum) told me afterwards that Carlos saw it and was laughing. What a kick!

* The little girl up on stage by Sebastien at the end. AWWW!

*Carlos had some really good dance moves during LVSA. He had some ladies up dancing. One in particular was a riot to watch.

*Sebastien being literally an arm's length away when he came down the aisle singing Amazing Grace. OH MY!

*From our seats you had a perfect view of any of the guys that came down the run way and stopped just to the right of us. The time Urs did it, we could see into his eyes...we were that close. Whoa!

*The staging and seeing all the cool imagery of the backdrops. Awesome!

*A group of fans were waving a brazilian flag up in the rafters. Hoping they were from Brazil and not thinking one of the boys was from there. oops! That made me laugh.

*David's and Carlos' body language when they sing. They just put their whole selves into it!!! I LOVE that. I think I almost liked watching them sing more than I did Sebastien and Urs. Kinda strange for me since I've always been a Siren with Uber tendancies.

*David and Urs having to wait for the crowd to quiet down before they could announce the next song.

*Waiting outside at one of the ramps after the concert to see if we could catch a glimpse of the guys leaving in their escort. We barely missed Sebestain. We heard he rolled down his window and said goodnight ladies. *THUD*

*That moment in ETILAY when Seb sings the part..to my heart...different then what's on the CD. That melted MY heart. LOVE LOVE that song.

* Apparently my camera is too professional and would have been confiscated by security had they seen me taking pictures with it. Not wanting to cause a scene during the concert I felt it was best not to sneak it in. (although the guy was going to let me) Luckily we became fast friends with the couple behind us. The gentlemen was taking tons of photos and video and knowing of my plight (of no camera) he told me he would put a DVD together for me and my sister. Not only has he done that but he's taken the time to send seperate photo and video links to me. The generosity of strangers is amazing to me.

* There was a mob of people at the end during the last two numbers trying to get handshakes, autographs. Nothing like in Kelowna where they had time to shake eachother's hands. I think I even heard Seb mumble sorry because it was hard to get to everybody. I'll never forget a gentlemen who was one of the last ones to shake his hand, look up straight at him and say very boldly, "Thank You Sebestian." It was nice to see men there appreciating IL DIVO too....and even knowing their names.

* I got to shake Urs', David's hand and half shake Sebastiens (by that time he had roses in his hand.) Got an autograph from David. He practically knelt down to do it. So kind. WHHHAAAA!

This was a night never to forget. I can't wait to go to Vegas for their concert next month but I doubt it will top this experience.