ROOOOOOOOXXXXANNE! - 03:37, Monday, July 30, 2007

My husband Jeff graduated from Penn State Uni in May. He had dropped out of college in 2002. Disillusioned with pretty much everything about life he packed in his Electrical Engineering degree, and moved back home to his parents to figure out what to do.

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Then he met me.

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One of the things I quickly realized about the USA is, if you don't have qualifications life is extra hard. If you're taking over your mom and dads business or you're starting your own or you have 20 years experience etc etc of course they might not be needed, but from where I was standing, Jeff and I needed all the help we could get. Two years after he dropped out and now newly married to yours truly, I persuaded him to go back to college and this time to do something he loved instead of something he thought he should be doing. Hating offices and cubicles and loving the outdoors, he choose Forestry, and in 2005 he went back to college. While I set about the task of supporting us both ( I don't recommend it to anyone, newlywed, new immigrant and soley responsible for keeping your marriage financially afloat for 2 years - fun fun fun! ) So 2 years later in May 2007 Jeff graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Sciences.

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For his graduation present I wanted to get him something super cool...so I got him a ticket to see these guys in Philadelphia:

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Ok so we're only 30 and 31 years old and might be too young to remember them first time around, but good music is still good music. We both love The Police. I know a lot of people think Sting is a wanker but there's no doubt The Police were a cracking band. Listen to their greatest hits album and you'll remember how awesome they are. I remember days when I was 19 spent in my friends council house passing a spliff and listening to people trying to play the bongos along to "Don't stand so close to me."  

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The tickets were outrageously priced, about $250 -$350 a pop and with our non-budget we couldn't afford them. Then I got lucky and found out that if you had a Best Buy loyalty card (which for some reason I do) and you emailed your membership number to Best Buy on a certain day and a certain time that Best Buy would then email you a link to a website where you could buy tickets 2 weeks before they went on sale, and get 2 tix for the price of 1. Still pricey but what the hell.

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It was worth it, the show was fabulous. It was held in the Philadelphia Phillies baseball stadium which was enormous and seemed poorly staffed (don't events like these always seem like that?) but the atmosphere was tangible and the weather was hot and sticky. We had great seats, we made our way down to the field near the front and as soon as Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers came on I squealed like a 5 year old on Christmas morning. Possibly my fave song was "Message in a Bottle" and of course, "Roxanne."  Which everyone drunkenly screeched along to. During the concert me and my husband agreed on one thing -  Sting is a total and utter bastard,  we're so jealous of him we want to reverse over his face. Not only is he a good looking fella in real life, he also played the bass like a fiend and his voice sounded like it hadn't changed a bit in 30 years. When Elton John sings now I cringe a bit because he's losing it with age. Sting is about 104 and still able to hit every note and belt out every "eyyy -oooh" with the power of a 21 year old. Add to that , he's in one of the coolest bands ever and the fact that he has zero fat on his perfect yoga toned body and Jeff and I were convinced that there's nothing the man hasn't got. Bastard. Here's some pics of the show:

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The Police @ Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia, 7/19/2007