You're Paying Me to Do What? Part II

So we got to Rotterdam. Success. We didn't know exactly where the venue for concert was, but we finally figured that out. The North Sea Jazz fest is the largest indoor jazz festival in the world- it was crammed with people. The first show we watched was Katie Melua- she reminded me a lot of Nora Jones and I will definitely be downloading the rest of her music. Then Buddy Guy came on. He was phenomenal, absolute dynamite. No, but really. He was so bluesy and such a showman. Probably the best show I've ever seen. Ever.

Then Joss Stone came on, followed by Ben Harper. The venue was packed at this point. The main concert hall easily held 10,000 people standing shoulder to shoulder, cheek to jowl. We watched the Dutch lose in overtime in the World Cup (very disappointing) and then STEVIE WONDER CAME ON STAGE. We were sitting in the far back crammed in with so many thousands of people. (I tried not to think about that too much, otherwise I started to panic a bit.) It was miserably hot, but so amazing. I'd said to Rachael earlier that day that if Stevie played Overjoyed, my fav song, the whole concert would be worth it. HE PLAYED IT! I nearly lost it when he started to play the opening rift.

We caught one of the last metros to the train station and finally collapsed into bed back in Delft at 3:30am. Phew.