Charlotte NC - football, basketball and NASCAR, OH MY!

I have live in many many states, and traveled to most of the others....but when it all comes down to it, I tend to call NC home. My father and baby brother still live there with their respective families (shout out to Kernersville!)....I left NC many times but I always came back....the last time I left was in May 1999....my dad said "she will be back, she always comes back"...but what he didn't know was the stars had aligned and I had met the love of my life and my path was forever changing....it was only in the past couple years that he looked at his wife and said "she isn't coming back is she" and she told him "no, she isn't"....when you find the one, well...sigh....home is in their heart and its the greatest place I have ever been ;-)

I was so torn about wanting to go to this concert...I wanted to couple it with visiting my family.....but other responsibilities came first....I needed to be here in PA to take care of life....couldn't run off and follow the tour around like last time.....by the time i talked myself into maybe going there were no more fan club tickets to be had....and I "watched" many pairs on eBay...and visited Ticketmaster often (I do this alot for almost all the shows LOL)....but it wasn't meant to be this time....I have been sticking close to home....getting some things done....more about that in the coming months......maybe ;-)

The Kid comes running upstairs a little bit ago and was all excited...she says "I FOUND A PATTERN"....I think she actually is starting to understand my stats LOL....scary...

So what she noticed was that Melissa played Don't You Need and Similar Features in Clearwater and Louisville....then the next nights after each she played You Used To Love To Dance and Dance Without Sleeping in Orlando and Charlotte respectively. We also noticed that she has rotated the song after All There Is with 4 songs: I Take You With Me, Ain't It Heavy, All American Girl, and Chrome Plated Heart....this will be confirmed if she plays All American Girl tonight in DC....we shall see!

Charlotte's set list was comprised of 27 songs, 19 core songs (I am again counting If I Wanted To and The Kingdom Of Heaven since she has played these at all shows except 1 each), there were 8 other songs played, 1 of which was a tour premier: Kiss Me. The encore included Piece of My Heart again....hopefully this is an indication that Melissa is feeling better and that pesky cold has passed. Piece Of My Heart has been played at 4 of the 8 shows so far...still no appearance of Like The Way I Do....wonder if/when this one will show?

Melissa has sang 188 songs total from a pool of 57 different songs. There should be many more tour premiers if it hold true that she has planned for about 70 different songs. Every commercial release has been represented during the tour with anywhere from 3-6 songs having been played off of each....except for The Awakening which has had all but 2 of its songs played: A Simple Love and Map Of The Stars. Also only 1 song has appeared from Live and Alone that was not on any other release: I Take You With Me.

For those in DC tonight HAVE FUN! wish I was there...but love reading all about the adventures, watching the videos, and seeing the pictures when I can't be there in person LOL...Toronto in 30 some days! and then on to Columbus just a few days later!

peace....