Christmas concert

Yesterday me and robert met up with his mom, her friend and roberts little sister to go see a christmas concert called "The show of christmas". Robert's mom is very nice and treated us on dinner and the concert last year and also this year. It's a nice experience, though we were all a little disappointed as the show this year was not nearly as good as last year.

First of all it was supposed to be a christmas show, but even though the consert was over two hours, there were only a few christmas songs. The rest were new and old pop hits from swedish artists - overall not very christmasy. :p  They also had trouble with the sound and the mics through the entire show, which was a shame.

Even though it didn't give us the christmasy feeling we were expecting it was still very nice! We ate dinner and talked about recent events and last years show, then we ventured to "globen" (The globe) where the show was held. On our way there we were treated to a cup of "glögg" - a swedish hot christmas beverage, that tastes kind of like hot juice, with almonds and raisins. It's a very traditional swedish christmas beverage and to us swedes it smells like christmas. While we were standing in line and drinking our glögg outside in the cold there was a small performance for us. It was a man in uniform doing poi. He used a stick with fire on both ends, swinging it around with dance-like movements.

In the end we got in and watched the performance. And even though it had some difficulties with the sound it was nice and fun. And the few christmas songs that they  played got the entire crowd going, singing along and lighting up our phones. Yes, our phones. At one point one of the artists asked the crowd to light up our phones and use them as candles to get some christmas spirit. It looked really beautiful, in a few seconds the consert hall went from a black nothingness into a great black starry sky.

The view from our side of the consert hall when everyone lit up their phones. Really spectacular and beautiful. It's a shame it's not captured too well on the camera though.

The stage as the audience were lighting up there phones.

We were actually playing a little bit with two people on the other side. Obviously we couldn't see them, only the light of their phones but when we moved our lights from side to side, their lights did too, and when we moved our lights up and down, their lights followed. So from time to time we played around with eachother when the show wasn't as thrilling.

After the show we talked some more before we went our separate ways, but all in all it was a great evening, and hopefully we will do it again next year. After all, dinner, family, friends and a christmas concert is a pretty winning combination ;)

//Wayu