So I guess everyone wants to hear about U2. Here's the day:

I set my alarm for 5:20 in the morning, but as I am not a morning person, I arranged Matt to call me at 5:30 to make sure I woke up. Amazingly enough I did wake up at 5:20! But I did lay in bed until Matt called. So I went down to get Tony, (he didn't wake up on time). We stopped by Maceys to get Matt, and some hand warmers, great idea BTW. Then went to get Eric, (also didn't wake up on time). We got to the Delta Center about 6:45 am. We were about 180 people back in line. At the front of the line there were some fans who took it upon themselves to keep order in the line, probably a good thing, but these were U2 fans. They wrote a number on everyone's hands, and wrote down names, to avoid line arguments. About 7:15 the Delta Center moved us up on Delta Center property, and separated the fan club, from regular lines. They separated pretty evenly. About 7:30 they started giving out numbered tickets, which we would use later to line back up in the same order.

After getting our tickets, Matt had to take his leave of us and go back to work, so Tony, Eric and I went down to eat Lumberjack Breakfasts at the Dee's on 7th & 21st. Then we dropped off Eric to go to work, and Tony and I went back to his Mom's house. His brother was borrowing his car, so we took it over to wash it for him. Then we went to Tony's place to chill. We played a little BF2 before going back over to pick up Matt. After picking up Eric we grabbed some dinner over at Burger King, where I figured I better ask if everyone had there ticket. Eric left his in his other coat, so we ran back and grabbed it, then cruised up to the Delta Center.

The Delta Center was controlled chaos. I say controlled only because the fans kept it that way, the Delta Center didn't do much. They started to line us back up, which we could have easily done ourselves, 10 at a time switching between the fan and regular lines. Then we waited until about 5:45 when they started letting us in. After our security sweep, DELTA CENTER SECURITY let 2 guys in front of us in line. That was they gayest thing ever, and we complained! But his supervisor said blah blah blah, what a gimp. So the people right in front of us got scanned in, the people right after us, but not one of us got scanned into the ellipse. So we hurried down, and got us space on the rail on Edge's side. We were at the very edge of the GA, on the rail. We were happy. It was a great spot to witness one funny part of the night. During Kanye's set, one guy about 5 ft. down from us had a sign that read "Kanye West doesn't like white people." Kanye came out around the ellipse, kinda stopped at the guy, was dancing and singing, and very subtlety threw him the bird. I caught it, and was laughing! He did it in such a smooth motion that not everyone noticed.

Just before 9 we heard a little song by The Arcade Fire, and the crowd erupted! Time for the show. "Everyone" started going, then U2 came out and started into City Of Blinding Lights. Following that they took it up in tempo playing Vertigo with a little Beatles snippet(one of many) at the end of She Loves You. After that came Elevation. Then back to Boy with I Will Follow. Next came I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and at the end Bono included a little vocal only snippet of In A Little While. Then they played Beautiful Day during which Bono brought up a "Sexy Santa". We couldn't see her face from our distance, as it was the other side of the ellipse, but she definitely had the figure and clothes of a "Sexy Santa". Perhaps that is what prompted the Christmas snippets of Baby Please Come Home and Happy Christmas {War Is Over!}. Bono got out his hollow body guitar and played us the first verse of Norwegian Wood the 3rd Beatles Song, then with The Edge on piano, they started playing Original Of The Species. After that they played Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own with a snippet of Torna A Surriento at the end. Next came Love & Peace Or Else then into Sunday Bloody Sunday where Bono pulled up a little kid to sit with him on stage. He got the kid to yell out "No more!" with him at the end of the song. During the song Bono also sung on how there was only one more show to play, then they could go home for Christmas. They closed it up with a Rock The Casbah snippet at then end. Then everything about human rights started with Bullet The Blue Sky with its usual snippets of Hands That Built America & When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Then Bono told us about the Sarajevo beauty pageant that took place amidst sniper fire before they played Miss Sarajevo. Next came Pride (In The Name Of Love), followed by Where The Streets Have No Name and One to conclude the main set.

The encore started with the Zooropa Jackpot, which had me thinking Zoo Station, but instead they played Until The End Of The World. It was the first time Edge had ventured off the stage all night, so he came right up next to us. Next came Mysterious Ways with a girl on stage to dance with Bono. She stayed on for the next song as well of With Or Without You which they didn't play here on the Elevation Tour. They said goodnight again, and went offstage for the second time. But there was going to be one more encore. It started out with an acoustic, into full band Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of. After that All Because Of You, followed by Yahweh. Then Edge and Adam switched not only instruments, but sides to close out the night with 40. I was pretty disappointed the fans didn't keep singing 40 after all the band was off the stage. They should have kept it going. We got out of the arena, and parking pretty easily, and headed east away from the freeway. We took 7th East to get home, after stopping at a 7-11 to get some drinks and nachos for Eric. And that was the day.

Again, the setlist was:

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo / She Loves You (snippet)
Elevation
I Will Follow
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In A Little While (snippet)
Beautiful Day / Baby Please Come Home (snippet)/ Happy Christmas {War Is Over!} (snippet)
Norwegian Wood (mini-song)
Original Of The Species
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
Love & Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky / Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One

Encore:

Until The End Of The World
Mysterious Ways
With Or Without You

Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
All Because Of You
Yahweh
40