Wachovia Center @ Philadelphia, PA - 1/17/09

• George, Ron and I made the easy trip from DC to Philly. We had plenty of time to kill, so we had lunch at the 2 famous cheese steak places in Philly - Geno's Steaks and Pat's King of Stakes.

  
  
  
  

• Both places were busy as hell, and finding a parking spot close was tough. After an unsuccessful attempt in showing off my parallel parking skills, we found a spot. Ron ate 2 cheese steaks from each place, and I had 1 from each. The cheese steaks were REALLY good. Poor George - they didn't have anything on the menu he was willing to eat.

• Who's the winner of the best cheese steak you ask? I liked both, but Pat's had more meat on it. So the winner was - Pat's King of Steaks. If you're ever in Philly, you HAVE to eat at both places. The Philly cheese steaks were GREAT!

• As the picture below proves, we froze our asses off again. Some may think standing in the freezing cold is stupid - and you're right, but I like the comraderie...the hanging out with my Metallica friend. Although, I wouldn't mind if Metallica chose NOT to tour the US during the winter.

  
  Freezing our arses off
  (L to R) Me, Ron, George, Steph, Amy, Blou, Matt, Yuri, Jeannette, Lauren, and Lauren's hubby

• While waiting inside for the show to start, George and I see our Angry Romanian friends walking around. HA HA!

• The show was great as usual - is there such a thing as a bad Metallica show? Some of the highlights included "The Unforgiven", "Blackened" and "Whiplash". Plus, the new stuff off Death Magnetic gets better and better each time I hear it live.

  
  You can barely see me in the bottom right hand corner
  Picture from Rod Snyder
  
  Me, Amy and George (bottom right)
  Picture from Rod Snyder