Busy Saturday

So I was @ Iso-Syöte on Saturday with my family. My daughter learned to snowboard a lot better than before. Now she can actually make several turns in a row without turning the board sideways first. And my son has become too fast on skis for my wife...she can't keep up with him :)

I finally got to test ride the old and used Burton Custom, my new Burton boots and Giro helmet (see couple of earlier blog entries). The boots were fantastic and the helmet was ok. For the first hour or so I had some problems with the left boot as my little toe was getting numb, but then I guess the boot adjusted to my foot. The Giro helmet was otherwise great but my goggles didn't fit with it perfectly. The old Burton Custom board doesn't really look too pretty and it has some scratches on it, but boy how great it was to ride compared to the rental boards I've only ridden so far. I might actually buy it.

At the Saturday evening we were back to Oulu and we went out with my wife. First we had dinner in Marrakech restaurant which was great. Not only the food was tasteful and the Menu dishes huge, they also had belly dance performances :)
After the dinner we went to see Angelit concert. They were good as always but by far the best thing about the concert was that there were a lot of people from Utsjoki that now live in Oulu.

Going to Concerts in the Bay Area

In past few weeks I saw two big tours in Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheater. The place itself is quite nice for concerts. And what I love about US is that you can have your beer wherever you go in the concert area (the same goes with sports events). In Finland there are dedicated areas for drinking in both music and sports events.

The two concerts I saw were Ozzfest and Projekt Revolution Tour. I had lawn tickets for both of those concerts as I was late in getting the tickets, better seats were already gone. I must say that in the future I have to consider twice before going to concert to the Amphitheater if I don't get a good seat. The lawn is so far away from the stage that it's difficult to see much anything, especially as the lawn is not steep enough to see over other people. And the volume of the music up there is also quite low.

In comparing these two events I have to say Ozzfest was better. Although I preferred the bands in Proj Rev Tour over the one's in Ozzfest, the atmosphere was far better in Ozzfest...people were more involved. I think this was partly due to the fact that in Ozzfest the volume of the music was at least a bit louder up in the lawn. But then comparing these two events to any major Rock festival in Finland I was amazed on how small video screens these guys had. I mean they were the size of a stamp! There would've been room for screens at least three times the size of the one's used.

I shot some video from the concerts. Here are the best shots of the main acts and organizers of those two tours.
Linkin Park:


Ozzy Osbourne: