When the first show started, I was briefly lost in my own mind. Gillian's voice doesn't sound "different" in person than what I'm used to, but for some reason there's just something magical about hearing something otherwise familiar in person for the first time after you've only heard it recorded before. (Except for those concerts where they've decided louder is better).
For those of you who think I'm obsessed, well, not exactly. Ok, I have a thing for Dana Scully
As an added bonus I brought back a bunch of Cadbury Twirl bars, one of my guilty pleasures (thanks to USAir back in 2000, when I was on a Frankfurt-Pittsburgh flight coming back from Göteborg, Sweden) along with Cheerwine, and ice cream from the Penn State creamery. Too bad Twirls are so hard to find; At least the ice cream and Cheerwine are available after a road trip, though I wish I knew where in West Virginia I could find 6-packs instead of bottles.
I do wish I had time to stay longer, but since