Blog Neglect and Things I Wish for Today

It's been too long since I blogged. I'd like to pretend it's because I was having SO. MUCH. FUN. But sadly, that is not the case. Instead I've just neglected it. And I will continue to neglect until probably September. I'm pretty sure.

Things I Wish for Today:

1. That I drank coffee. I'm so tired. My eyes are kind of puffy, my tummy feels unsettled, and I just want to go back to bed. BUT, if I drank coffee, it'd perk me up. I feel equally adverse to any other stimulant for morning wakefulness, but I'm not opposed to an occasional Diet Coke when I might be staying up late.
2. That I was back in bed and that it was Saturday. Because like mentioned, I'm SO tired.
3. That it was Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 because I'd be hightailing it up to the airport ready to board a plane for London. Holla! Richey family vacay 2012: England (we're visiting Emma's mission)

Instead, I'm at work, at my desk, procrastinating updating our travel log by watching a remix of Bob Ross.

COLDPLAY

Last night I went to my second Coldplay concert. I hit up the Viva la Vida tour in 2008 with my lovely sisters Cami and Emma. Viva la Vida is my absolute favorite Coldplay album. I'm obsessed with every song. I don't love Mylo Xyloto as much BUT the concert was incredible.

Here are the couple pictures I snapped on my phone. You can hardly tell what anything is except pretty color. I'm still in love.

The crowd before the band came on. Totally full. Slash our seats were really high up...

Katie, me, Lisa. We were SO excited. It was hard to remain calm.

Opening number. The confetti they had blown into the crowd was amazing.

Changes of color in the opening song to highlight different parts of the song. Awesome.

The stage from our view. We were so high up but the colors were so cool it was fine

They played in red lights whenever a Viva La Vida song was played.

Here are my top three the reasons why I loved the concert:

1. They gave everyone in the audience light up wrist bands. These pulsed with the music when they played anything from the new album. Awesome.
2. Black lights, neon, color symphony galore. It was beautiful.
3. Chris Martin is hilarious. (He messed up while singing and apologized and made the band restart and it was kind of silly and endearing, even if he kept dropping the F-bomb, but a British accented F-bomb doesn't sound nearly offensive for some reason...)

BONUS Reason: They wore color coordinated jeans and t-shirts. Blacks, grays and muted pinky purple. The drummer wore purply pink jeans. And we had an excellent view of him rocking out. I kind of love the drummer a lot.

Happy 4th!

I love living in a patriotic city on The 4th of July. It was really fun to go into DC and watch the fireworks on the grass outside the Lincoln Memorial. I love it when the fireworks are big and practically right overhead and the booming can really be felt in your chest. And the white, semi sparkly, lingering fireworks are my favorites.

walking across an empty Memorial Bridge

view of the Lincoln from our seats in the grass

view of the Washington and Capital from our seats

white fireworks are my favs

the "weeping willow" ones especially the favorites

awesome finale, they just kept coming

I hope you had a wonderful Independence Day too. I just wish I had today and tomorrow off to celebrate too.