(Disclaimer: all pix are from my phone. I always feel the need to explain that when I've not used my Canon)
Last weekend we did a quick trip to the Big D - Dallas!
And it was for a very important reason - another
"Game of Thrones Experience Concert!" I've had my tickets for months. It was at the American Airlines Center. This is the long line of fans waiting for the doors to open.
I asked an usher how many people they estimated were there. She pulled out her official document and said 10,000. I hate crowds! If I had known that, I might have chickened out. Glad I didn't know.
And here we are inside, waiting to geek out.
The music was phenomenal, of course. I was a tad disappointed in the staging this time. The 2017 tour had multiple stages, House banners & Citadel armillary spheres hanging from the ceiling, and multiple screens. There was much more multi-media & special effects.
This one was just a main stage & 2 very small ones, one with a rising platform. There were pyro effects when the dragons were onscreen, but again, less than last time.
Ramin Djawdi himself conducts the orchestra and he played the organ on the rising stage. It was the song where Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor. There's a buildup of green lights & smoke, depicting the green wildfire in the show, which crescendos into a big green explosion surrounding the organist at the end of the song. It's pretty cool.
One of the best effects in this particular show was the violinist playing the haunting theme of House Stark. As she rises, it appears to be a Weirwood tree with the red leaves falling.
So now the concert's behind me and the long winter is here. Well, not literally here in Oklahoma, but the temps have dropped a lot this evening! No, we're still waiting for George to finish "Winds of Winter" and for the GoT team to edit Season 8. It's projected to air end of spring next year or thereabouts. It seems like a long wait for all those goodies to drop, but if there's one thing I've noticed the past few years, it's that time does indeed fly. Like warp speed.
We stayed at the neatest hotel, the Lorenzo. It was very unique!
Blue statues seemed to be a thing.
And anatomically correct.
I think one of them jumped. I found a blue splat on the parking lot.
Inside is very artsy. In fact, they advertise that 600 original works of art are within the hotel - including the bed headboards! This is part of the lobby.
Black chandeliers in the elevator hallway.
This is a hallway - eyes on one side, round mirrors on the other.
Unique display of room numbers, but look closely - there's a story! Scroll on....
This is the concrete ceiling of our room.
The carpet is printed with fragments of classic literature.
Look at this amazing room!
Lest you assume we splurged, the cost was comparable to most chain hotels. It just didn't include breakfast (which is not saying much).
Well, there was a little bit of splurging - hubby wanted a corner room with a view.
Thru that doorway is a coffee bar, closet & bathroom.
Mirrors over the coffee bar. They do like their mirrors at the Lorenzo.
The nightscape of Dallas.
And all too quickly, it was back to the big sky of Oklahoma.
