Beyonce and Ribs

One of the pageant girls (Julie) invited us up to Tahoe to a Beyonce concert and to party with her before she goes back to China for 2 years. B and I are the only one that went up to see the Beyonce concert. Even Julie, who planned the whole thing couldn't make the concert as she got a beer/liquor promo gig that same night that she couldn't get out of. This was the thursday of Labor Day weekend. During the same weekend in Reno was ribfest. Ribfest is where they invite the top BBQ rib makers to compete for best ribs, best sauce, etc. They also sell literally a ton of ribs to the people all weekend long. Beyonce and ribs it is!

We head up to tahoe on thursday day, and saw the Beyonce concert. This was actually my first concert where I wanted to see the artist. I've been to some other concerts where I wasn't into the artist or knew their songs. So this was a blast for me. Beyonce is an amazing performer. Unfortunately our seats were quite far back, so actually seeing beyonce was a bit difficult. 3/4 through the show, we move up closer to the front and got a better view. One of the cool things about her concert was that her band was all girls. Guess she has some girl power going on in the band. One bad thing was that any of the old songs from Destiny's Child that she sang, she only sang about 30 seconds worth. Not sure if that's because she wanted to promote her own songs on her new album, or didn't have full rights to it.

B and I stayed in Tahoe that night, and headed out to Ribfest in Reno the next morning. I've never been so full from really good ribs. I pretty much ate nothing but rib samplers that I shared with B for $6 for 3 ribs. I do have to say that my favorite ribs was definitely butch's (It's the sauce) followed closely by famous dave's (It's the rub). After lunch, we fell into a food coma in our car, and was napping until the security guard came by and verbally warned us that we couldn't sleep in the parking lot. We walked around some more until we were hungry enough for dinner, grabbed some more ribs, corn on the cob, kettle corn, and fried veggies. Feeling extremely stuffed, we head back home because my flight to Washington DC was early next morning, while B had her flight to vegas the next day.