Oh, It's Love…

Today was pretty damn awesome. Started the day off with a healthy breakfast at New City, Derek and I met up with big Steve, Alan and Carmen. We got out of there pretty quick, since we had a lot of errands to do. First up was to check out the Hockey Store at Vaughn Mills. Well… the place is kinda far, if you’re there, you might as well shop the entire mall! And that’s exactly what we did! Fun times!

We headed just outside of downtown to pick up some goalie stuff for the boy afterwards. (He didn’t like the ones at Vaughn Mills.) Picked up some blocker at Duke’s. Finally, headed down to Ontario Place!

We were there really early, but we didn’t mind since it was such a nice day anyways. We walked around Ontario Place. It was such a beautiful day! Lots of kids, lots of… punks. haha

Getting into Molson Amphitheatre wasn’t too bad. We spotted several dads/moms totally rocking out to the music, which was pretty cool.

The first opener was Saint Alvia. They were pretty cool. Derek and I noticed that all of them were wearing pants that are way too tight. A few of the guys also looked really familiar. After some quick googling, they were ex members of Jersey and Boys Night Out. No wonder! Kinda felt bad for them… opening for Rancid AND Rise Against? That’s pressure right there.

Rancid was up next… and they pretty much owned it. It was a short set… but damn, they were so good! Definitely wished they played for a bit longer, though they were here last year around the same time.

Then finally, Rise Against was on. ♥ nothing but love for them! They were pretty good. Maybe because it was an outdoor arena (or me hyping them up or this being the last date of the tour), but Tim the lead singer seemed really tired. Either way, they played a couple of new songs and some old ones. Tim pulled out his acoustic guitar to play a two songs on his own – Everchanging and Heroes of War. Damn, so good

&hearts! I can’t wait for them to be back next.