Billy Joel for the win!

May 24, 2019 turned out to be a beautiful night and gorgeous weather.  We got to the stadium via the shuttle from Chickie and Pete's restaurant.   Our seats were in the 300 section of Citizen's Bank Park and gave us a view from way up high!  Billy Joel started performing about 8:30pm and kept going to just a little before 11:00pm.   He played hit after hit after hit.  Sometime during the show, Sam leaned over and said she was so happy to be there.  It turned out to be a great idea to surprise the kids and we all loved the concert.

Leaving the concert was quite the scene!  The restaurant offered a free shuttle to and from the stadium so we could leave our car parked at the restaurant. Going to the concert, the crowd wanting to take the shuttle was staggered and didn't have any over-crowding issues.  But taking the return shuttle back to the restaurant, once the concert was over, was of course, everyone leaving at the same time and all wanting to get a ride.  

We were lucky enough to get on the first shuttle heading back to the restaurant and even got seats on it.  However, as the shuttle was filling up, the driver said: "This is going to get ugly."  He had to leave probably several dozen people behind and came back for them.  The shuttle driver rolled thru all the stop signs, asked a woman on the shuttle who was blocking his view if it was ok to get in the lane next to him, and then was surprised when he looked toward the back of the shuttle and saw how many people had made it on.  For sure we violated the total number allowed by easily more than double or triple.  There were bodies everywhere!  My row of 2, had 4 of us sitting on it.  The woman next to me and I was laughing hysterically over what a sh*t show this shuttle ride had turned into.  And thru the whole ride, another woman is saying over and over again, we are going to die.  I think the driver was scared to use his brakes for fear what would happen to everyone standing. Meanwhile, the shuttle driver is also taking calls on his cell phone from people asking where he is.

Oh, and the only way we manage to get on is because we walked thru the intersection he was stuck waiting to cross and got on before he could officially pull up.  It was truly a memorable ending to an awesome evening. 

The proof is in the pudding!  This was a note that Sam wrote and put under my pillow at the hotel:

I obviously will be keeping this note forever!!