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"I hope you are all fit and healthy and I also hope that life is presenting you with wonderful opportunities for 2010".
Year of the tiger
My Week
Me
Last weekend I travelled to the beautiful Hunter Valley which is about a 3 hour drive north of Sydney. This area is famous for its awarding winning wines and delicious olives, and this weekend it was raging with Rob Thomas fans.
Generously, I was invited to share in my friend’s (Dale) birthday celebration at the open air concert held at the enormous Hope Estate Winery.
A stormy weekend was predicted, however, I was delighted to see the sun shining when I arrived at our accommodation.
In fact it was a sweltering 34 degrees at 3pm.
We headed out to the concert around 5pm looking forward to a balmy but fabulous evening.
The vineyard was a sea of people enjoying a few wines and bopping to the support act when suddenly... a huge, black, angry cloud appeared from nowhere and hovered threateningly overhead.
CRACK....the thunder echoed loudly drowning out the music, and SNAP... the lightning struck wrathfully, briefly turning night into day.
The drenching rain fell in bucket loads as we scampered to find shelter.
Luckily, we were able to purchase flimsy, plastic ponchos in the hope of protecting ourselves from total saturation.
On such a warm night the plastic made us swelter but at least it kept us "dryish".
The crowd was warned to stay away from anything that could be electrified which was hard to do considering all of the sheltering stalls were made of steel and canvas!
Everyone around us, except for the seriously inebriated, were terrified of being struck by lightning, however, my optimistic and naive self thought ...what would be the chances of me being singled out and struck by lightning amidst thousands of other revellers??? hmm...
The storm eventually passed (hooray) and we tramped gracelessly through ankle deep mud as we reluctantly returned to our rain sodden seats.
In a flash, Vanessa Amorossi appeared on stage belting out her signature song to the loud roar of a damp but appreciative audience.
Of course... the show must go on.
Vanessa was certainly a powerhouse performer and a popular crowd pleaser.
The winery grounds rocked when Rob Thomas arrived on stage, he illuminated the drizzly, dark night with his amazing talent and his charismatic presence.
He also enthralled us all with his deep spiritual ideals.
Dale and I enjoyed a fabulous evening of entertainment even though we were ankle deep in mud and in Dale’s case, trickling blood from an unsteady fan who accidently but heavily stepped on her toes.
I was certainly a birthday celebration to remember!
The lyrics to Rob’s songs are still reverberating in my ears days after.
Love ya Rob!
Rob Thomas
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