Travis at First Avenue in Minneapolis

That was Travis's entrance at their First Avenue show on July 22! They are probably one of the most energetic and just plain awesome live bands I have ever seen! They played many of my old favourites. JJ and I had an awesome time. Fran even did JJ's favourite Travis song unplugged! It was incredible... he got everyone to be quiet and the song was amazing that way! We were able to get pretty close so here are a few of my best pictures that night.

Fran's shirt says "Art. Music. Jaffa Cakes". I bought one :)

Andy on the banjo for Sing.

Picture of the whole band and Fran jumping off the drumset.

Bantering with the crowd before Flowers in the Window.


What a fantastic show and a great setlist!
Selfish Jean
Eyes Wide Open
Writing To Reach You
Love Will Come Through
As You Are
My Eyes
Big Chair
The Line Is Fine
Side
Driftwood
Good Feeling
Closer
Sing
Battleships
All I Wanna Do Is Rock
Turn

Encore:
20 (unplugged!)
Flowers In The Window
Sailing Away
Why Does It Always Rain on Me

A weekend in Minneapolis

JJ and I went to Minneapolis for the first time this past weekend. Jonathan and Katie were having their wedding there on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Minnehaha Park. After a small ceremony, we wandered through the park and checked out the Minnehaha Falls (one of main attractions in Minneapolis).


Their wedding day ended with champagne at the backyard reception. Congrats Jonathan and Katie Hobbs!


On Sunday, we decided to tour the other attractions of Minneapolis. Our first stop was the Mall of America, complete with its own indoor amusement park.



We had to see what the fuss was all about... and the metro stop that took us downtown was there.

Downtown Minneapolis is pretty dead on Sunday. Not much is open so we spent most of it just wandering around: through downtown, along the Mississippi, and Mill Ruins Park.



The Guthrie building was kinda neat although I didn't really figure out what it was for. It did have this cool lookout towards the river.

Capping off our evening were dinner at Fogo de Chao (less expensive than the one in Chicago!) and, the reason why we stayed an extra day in Minneapolis, the Travis concert (see next blog post)!!!