M.I.A. was the opener for Gwen and she was fantastic. She pretty much did all her songs from her CD Arular. It was her dance moves (running man) and her dj throwing in a bunch of old school flavour (eurythmics, reel 2 reel) that made it awesome. Oh and I think the fact that we had about 3-4 beers by the end of her act had a lot to do with it as well. I swear that the beer they serve up at the stadiums are laced with heroine. It is the only plausible/possible explanation for the feeling that one experiences when drinking the first beer. 
After a 30 minutes or so break Gwen came on to the cheers of high school and junior high girls all around the stadium. The screams were piercing and I think at one point my ears might have been bleeding. I could barely see her, even through the zoom on my camera she came up to be no more than 1 1/2 inches tall from my perspective. But you can definitely tell she was wearing short shorts and showing off her legs. She pretty much played every song from L.A.M.B. and then she had about 2 extra songs that weren't on there, and after you heard them you would know why they were excluded. Her sound set up was very good and her performance was okay (she didn't work the stage that much, which really sucked if you had tickets to the direct right/left of her). Her Harajuka girls weren't very visible but were there and she introduced them. They were pretty good dancers though. So after the concert we went back to the Marriott Courtyard and grabbed some donairs on the way back. Then we headed off to The Urban Lounge to meet up with some friends of Kevin. When we arrived we lucked out that his friends were 1 back in the line up and so we joined them (not without complaints from others in line) and after about 20 minutes we got in. The place had a live cover band so I wasn't to thrilled so I just sat there the whole night till closing drinking a few red bull and vodka's and a jagger bomb (drop shot that is red bull + jaggermeister); what a mistake this will turn out to be when I went to sleep. Now we stayed till close and then we left and tried to catch a cab. Who knew it would be so hard to do so? The bar was off of Whyte Ave. So we went onto Whyte Ave. to try and hail one down. After what seemed like an hour we were finally able to catch one. This was not without some drama after a few of them [taxi cabs] would tease us by pulling over and slowing down and then driving off as we grabbed for the handle. I suppose they did this to prevent people from fighting for cabs. However I found this truly annoying. Why can't they line up like they do in front of Cowboys or any other bar here in Calgary.
Anyways we got back and most of us were asleep by 4am, except for me. Those Red Bulls came back to haunt me. I would fall in and out of sleep throughout the hours and I could feel myself shaking from what I can only guess can be caused by too much Red Bull. To top it off our room felt like it was 30 degrees, Kevin snored, and the room walls were paper thin so you heard everything (no this was not a case of heightened senses caused by Red Bull). It was so noisy that by 8:30AM everyone was up and very tired. We finally managed to get to Denny's by noon and left the city by 1pm. I had Michal drive as I was coming down off the Red Bull buzz and wanted to catch a few winks before I got home to Calgary where I would have to attend a Christmas party for Tuyet's company. I managed to sleep until Red Deer and that was it. Our trip home was without incident and it ended up to be quite the experience. I have learned a great thing from it as well. Do not drink Red Bull close to the end of a night if you cherish sleep, and to not exceed the recommended maximum of 2 Red Bull's/day (I had 3).
That was my Harajuka girls experience. I will post the videos I took of the concert later when the server I normally put stuff on is up.
I think Alex should get points for having the longest blogs.
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