Madonna!

We went to Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour at the Verizon Center. We snapped the superstar, who shined in her nearly two-hour set with elaborate adorned sets that ranged from ancient Oriental, to traditional flamenco Spanish, to Parisian jazz nightclubs.

The show began with Madonna descending from the rafters with armored warriors and geishas. During Like a Virginwhich featured a giant cross-shaped walkway as the stage, a death-defying dancer swung from a spiral staircase from the rafters.

No Madonna show would be complete without some risqué moments, this with stripper nuns during her performance of Vogue. There were also fun numbers, such as Madonna dancing on a car hood, standing on a tire stack, singing True Blue, playing the ukulele.

A highlight was Madonna's dancing with flamenco performers and wooden drums, singing La Isla Bonita. She ended with a Stars and Stripes cloak during Holiday in front of the sold-out crowd and joked she was upset the president dldn't show up.

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