Transiberian Orchestra

Wes has always mentioned how much he loves the Transiberian Orchestra. This year they came to Reno so my mom thought it would be a great gift for him for his birthday! We kept it a total surprise until the day of(the day after Thanksgiving). My mom gave him his card and it said she was baby-sitting so we could go out to dinner and then to the concert. What a treat! And he was so surprised.

Wes chose, yes you guessed it, Sushi, so we went to my favorite sushi restaurant. Compromise. :D We had some time after dinner and we were near the temple so we decided to drive up and enjoy the view and the peace of the temple. On our drive it started really snowing. It was GORGEOUS at the temple. Wes got a pretty good shot:
Then we stopped at Starbucks and got Peppermint Hot Chocolate and Gingerbread hot chocolate. It was PERFECT for a cold, snowy date night.
The concert was amazing. I'm not a HUGE fan of all their music because some of it is a tad too rockish for me, but I really loved the show. However, I really love some of their Christmas music and some of their traditional classical gone rock songs are fabulous. Wes loved every minute of the show. It was 2 1/2 hours!

The first part of the show was more of a Christmas story. They even had it snowing on us at one point. It was really neat.
The light show was just phenomenal.

This is fire on the stage. They had it changing colors and then the torches would light to the tune of the music. When they would come on, Wes and I could even feel the heat way in the back. Amazing!
Toward the end, the amazing violinists came up into the crowd(see how shredded her bow is from playing so hard?)
The finale was phenomenal.

It was an amazing show that's hard to describe. It's just one of those must see type of things.

Thanks, Mom!!