Metallica Concert, Day 2

Empower Field, Denver Colorado: June 29, 2025

METALLICA - again! ... Here's our intrepid crew for the second stadium concert experience! (plus one perfect photobomb) Many thanks to Mike for taking the picture... me, Mike, his best friend of >35 years Jarl, and our nieces - Madeline and Valerie. This was Maddie's first concert. Val is well traveled - not her first rodeo (and is fnacy in her sunglasses).
Metallica, Empower Field, Denver, Colorado, Kari Sanders, Michael Sanders, Jarl Anderson, Valerie Lyon

The sound wasn't as good as the Friday night concert - in part because of my phone getting confused by all the drunk people around us. Some of those people were my big Italian family from the tri-state area. ;>) ... not literally family. Most people in our section had bought tickets for both days, so we already knew each other for the start of Day 2. My end of our seats was in what I referred to as "Long Island" - with David from New Jersey and his sister, Mya. Hugs, pictures, lots of conversation, and Maddie was trying to make sense of my friends... where I knew them from and Val was just laughing that, having been to New York, she knows it's just a different culture. (Upon hearing the story, my dad joked that we were probably one more concert away from making plans to get together for Christmas.) So, I enjoyed my stay on Long Island while everyone else was in Denver. ;>) Mya nicknamed me "Koala Kari" because I have actually been to Australia and held a Koala bear. I was unable to convince her the continent isn't actually overrun with scary spiders.