Man in the Moon

As many of you may know, I'm a Glenn Beck fan.  I listen to his radio show every day and even subscribed to his television network where I watch his nightly tv show among others.  He has put on several large events over the past few years in different locations.  The first one was in Washington D.C., the next year he went to Israel, and last year he had an event in Dallas, TX.  I briefly considered going to a couple of them (yeah, Israel wasn't one of them) but it was just too much money and time.

Finally, he announced an event this summer here in Salt Lake City!  I was so excited that I would finally be able to go without worrying about time and money.  Luckily, some of my brothers are also fans and we were able to go together.  I originally bought two tickets with the hope that Jaaromy would come with me.  He politely declined.  My younger (and poorer - those tickets weren't cheap) brother was more than happy to take his ticket.

After waiting for, like, ever the day of the event finally arrived.  Coincidentally, it was during the first week of July which also happened to be the wettest July on record.  We were a little concerned that we would be rained out since the show was at the USANA amphitheater.  It had been raining all day and was still pretty wet, but it wasn't raining quite as much by the time we got there.

We brought blankets and tarps and Scott even brought some ponchos which I am super grateful for since I don't own one.  Also, I'm so glad Rachel was there, so I wasn't alone with all those boys.

My in-laws were there too with some extended family and they were nice enough to save us a spot on the lawn.

Once we got settled, we went over to the concession area.  We had heard that Chris was manning the beer tap, so of course we had to go and make fun of him.

Sure enough, there he was.  We tried to tease him but he had so many customers it was hard.  So we went to find Sara and Sadie.  They were all there to raise money for the high school dance team.  It was so fun to have so much family there, even if they all weren't there to see the show.

We still had the problem of the rain.  Glenn Beck even came out on stage to talk to the audience about whether or not the show would go on.  The show required some pretty expensive equipment and would need to be replaced if they were damaged by the rain.  So, a friend of his came out and said a prayer that the show would be able to continue.

Not too long after the prayer we started to see some hope.  The sun was starting to come through the clouds and it looked beautiful.

We even got a double rainbow.  We all took it as a sign that the show should continue.

And what a show it was.  It started out with these two bi-planes flying over head.  That was pretty cool.  Then there was the flag raising to the song America the Beautiful sung slowly and simply by a female artist.  Glenn had brought in some acrobats from Cirque de Soliel to raise the flag.  They started on opposite sides of the stage hanging upside down dressed as soldiers.  They "walked" to the center to raise the flag so that when it "raised" it was coming down upside down.  It was very poignant and true.  I think that might have been the most powerful part of the show.  Following that was the story of the Man in the Moon. There was fun music and dancing.  The story was told about the history of mankind starting from the creation.  When we got to the part about WWII towards the end there were some loud fireworks to simulate the noise and confusion of war.  It was cool but also pretty intense.  Then when the show was all over there was a regular awesome fireworks show.

We all got home pretty late but it was a great experience and I'm glad that I could go with my brothers and sister-in-law.