Saturday Sterling and I were able to go to The Eagles concert! We left the house at 4:30 PM so we could go to dinner before. We went to a restaurant we've never been before called the Indian House. I highly recommend it. It's on State St. in Sandy by the Rio Tinto stadium. We started off the meal with Deep Fried Vegetable Balls. They arrived sizzling and were served with two sauces one sweet and one more on the tart and spicy side. Both tasted wonderful and added a lot to the veggie balls. We both ordered the Vegetable Coconut Korma. I ordered mine mild and Sterling got the medium. It was a yummy coconut sauce made of onions, cashews, golden raisins, coconut cream and spices all mixed with cauliflower and carrots over rice. The spices were just right and it tasted wonderful. For Dessert we got the Peshwari Naan which is Indian bread stuffed with coconut, cashew nuts and raisins drizzled with honey. It had some different spices I couldn't identify (sage maybe?) but it was Yummy! We then headed to the Rio Tinto Stadium, found parking, and then our seats. We thought the show started at 7 PM and couldn't believe how sparse the crowd was at 10 to 7. We then took out the tickets and saw the show actually started at 8! Oops! Better to be an hour early than an hour late. So we walked around the stadium for awhile to pass time. The opening act for The Eagles was Michelle Branch! She did a great job. The Eagles took the stage at about 10 to 9 and had fans on their feet for most of the show. They did a great job and had great energy considering their age (in their 60's). Joe Walsh is an amazing guitar player. Very fun to watch. They had a huge arched screen behind them that had cool light effects and graphics and/or video. It was fun to see how many ways they used that.
This is what the screen looked like during Hotel California! They didn't allow camera's inside the stadium so I got the concert pictures off the SL Trib site!
We left during the second song, after they came back on for the encore, to beat traffic. It worked and we got out without having to wait! They performed for almost 2 hours and we got home at 11:30PM. It was a great date and even better because The Salt Lake Tribune gave us the tickets for being in a newspaper advertisement for them (see two posts below)!
