Quick meet-up

On Friday night Molly and I went to the state fair to see Fictionist (haven't hear of them?!?! You should follow that link and become familiar!) While there I was able to meet up with a fellow blogger (I say fellow blogger like I'm really a blogger, I'm not!) Caitlin from Hue and Hum (you should also follow that link and become aquainted, she is great!). Caitlin just so happens to be the wife of Robbie (he plays guitar for Fictionist, sings some backup and has a jazz project on the side). Can I just say that she might be one of the sweetest people I have ever met!
I suppose I should back up and explain the reason that we had a short meet-up. Caitlin is an artist. Pretty much a really great artist! I have bought a set of three paintings from her, won a print she did in a giveaway and recently she started an etsy shop where you can buy some of the art that she does. In addition to painting she also sews. Like really awesome custom designed t's! So I decided that I really needed one. And I bought one, which brings us to the meet-up.
Molly and I got to the concert and were a bit suprised to see that there were not many people there. Sad! But we danced in our seats (no one else was up and dancing and I get embarassed super easy, so dance in our seats it was) and sang along have a grand time! Part way through the show Caitlin made it there and stopped by to introduce herself and also to give me the shirt she had made for me (I know there have been a lot of these little tangents but I feel in a bit of a tangenty mood, any how because I'm super awkward sometimes I actually thought about how I should say hi, yep awkward! But she was so sweet and came up said she was Caitlin and gave me a quick hug. Thanks for helping this awkward girl!) and she also brought me a print of a painting she had done to say sorry for taking a while with the shirt (I didn't think it took her long at all!). She then said to wait around after the show so we could talk and so that she could get a picture of the shirt and a picture of us together. So Molly and I went back to rocking out :)
After the show we walked over to her and had a short conversation (that was not awkward, maybe I'm not as awkward as I think?) and then took a couple of pictures. Which will bring us to the end of this post...good job if you made it this far :)
p.s. Sorry for the quality of these pictures, neither of us had a camera so we just took them with my cell phone.

Vegas!

Ahh, Vegas was so much fun! I LOVE road trips and so the trip down was great, we sang at the top of our lungs, had mt. dew, talked and got more and more excited for the meet up with our friends and the Neon Trees concert the next day. When we got to Vegas Molly humored Darice and I and drove up the strip so we could quickly see everything. Then because she is GREAT she even agreed to walk part of the strip so that Darcie and I could check things out :) We saw the show at Treasure Island (dumb!), had dinner at Planet Hollywood and then walked to the Bellagio to see the fountains. By that point we were so tired that we just sat down on the sidewalk (Vegas is so dirty, I can't believe I did that!) and waited. We didn't know how often the fountains went off and so once we had waited about an hour we finally asked a worker and it turns out that we had just missed the last one so we had waited there for an hour for no reason! As I said we were exhausted so we decided to take a cab back and not walk the three miles back to our hotel. Holy moly cabs there are expensive. It was about $10.50 for a three mile cab ride. I think we all crashed really quickly that night! :)
The next day we got up and me and Darcie walked to Starbucks so she could get her coffee fix and Molly got ready (she slept later than us and so took a bit longer to get ready) then we all got in the car and drove to the resort that the concert was going to be held at. Molly and I stood in line pretty much from noon until they let us in and then we (Molly, me, Darcie, Debbie, Molly 2 and Taisha) stood at the barricade until the concert started. Although at a couple of points Molly and I were able to get out of line...we both spent $10 in slot machines which we lost right away and then we had a quick lunch.
The concert itself was amazing! I have loved almost every Neon Trees concert I have been to but this one was a new favorite! I was brought to tears a couple of times (first time ever at one of their concerts) and we were front and center. Plus we got to hang out with the tour guitarist after and we were able to see and talk to everyone in the band except for the bassist before the concert....Ok that is all for now. I will leave you with some pictures. There are a lot of them :)


Darcie, Me, Molly 2 and Molly

Molly, Me, Molly 2, Darcie and Taisha

Taisha, Molly, Molly 2, Darcie, Debbie and Me

Tyler Glenn

Branden Campbell

Tyler Glenn, Elaine Bradley, Branden Campbell, David Charles

Tyler Glenn

Chris Cordley



Neon Trees concert

On Friday myself and my friend Molly went to the Neon Trees/My Chemical Romance concert. I got there at noon to start standing in line since it was a general admission concert and we wanted right up front for the Neon Trees portion of the concert. Surprisingly the wait (all 7 hours) was not that bad. It was cold and it rained/snowed/hailed and there was wind but we met up with some girls that I had met online through twitter and we all had a ton of fun hanging out and getting to know each other. The fans of Neon Trees are so much fun, we always meet new people when we go to concerts and have a lot of fun planning our next meet up:) We were having so much fun all day that I didn't manage to get any pictures of our wait and only got three pictures of the concert (MCR fans are not nice! They kept shoving and pushing us). But we did manage to get right up front on the right hand side (Molly had to stand behind me and protected me from most of the pushing although I somebody on my left kept grabbing my bum, not cool!). After the concert we spent about 45 minutes chatting with the guitarist of Neon Trees and again I forgot to take a picture:)