A night for nostalgia, tears, cheering and jumping for joy finished the great reconciliation between U2 and mexican fans at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

The turnstiles were not as crowded as the previous day, but again it was a sellout (as usual were U2 appears). When they walked outside to the soccer field at the stadium it was a reward for me after sleeping on the street and spending 15 hours for a ticket for the second concert in last December's sale.

It started like the DVD concert at Chicago, with the chorus before "City of blinding lights" (can you tell me where can I get them?)... but everybody were expecting the moment of explosion, the moment where Bono and almost 80,000 fans would be one voice, the merge was complete when everyone yelled at the same time in Spanish: ¡Uno, dos, tres, catorce!. The Vertigo started and rest is history.

The heat increased with "Elevation". "New year's day" and "Beautiful Day" in which Bono replaced the middle part making references to Mexico's beaches.

The fans travelled thru the time machine with songs like "I still haven't found what I'm looking for", and specially "With our without you", which made people drop some tears as one mexican lady hugged and kissed Bono's head.

One special moment was when they played "Miss Sarajevo" with Bono singing Luciano Pavarotti's part. Can't find the words to describe it. Simply unbelievable.

In "Where the streets have no name" appeared Latin American Flags on the big screen, obviously, Mexican flag was in the middle of it.

It was a night to remember, and surely with this welcome back after an almost 9-year absence, U2 will reconsider to be in Mexico again in a short term. Surely it will be.

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