Fearless Traveler

Le Cab trip 5/30/12

Woke up around 10:30 and started getting ready and all that. My sister didn’t get out of class until 11:30 so I had all that time to waste. Got all my things together and stuffed it in my bag. After my sister came she spent almost an hour eating (I don’t even know why she found it necessary to take that long.) We left around 12:20 and arrived to the school by 1:15-ish. I’ve never been there and the campus was HUGE so we had to ask some guy standing around just to find out we couldn’t even line up until after 3pm because school was still in session. Slightly wanted to hurt someone at that point since they never wrote that on the website.

I used my AroundMe app and luckily found a Taco Bell near by. There was a huge outlet next to it so my sister and I went there to kill time and actually ended up buying clothes. We went to taco bell after and by the time we were done eating and all it was 3pm. I really needed sharpies so there was a Walgreens on our way there and I went in and bought two. We arrived back to the school and got an amazing parking spot and ended up being the 27th and 28th people in line. Sadly didn’t get the names of the girls, but we made friends with the three girls in front of us and the five in back of us.

We all got annoyed because there was literally these people that kept adding more people to their little circle and they just alll skipped us. There was about 18 people that skipped us and joined this group. We were all going to blow of how angry we all were. Me, alongside with everyone I ended up talking with the time we were in line, all got there at around 3:20pm. There were people that JUST got there and joined this never ending clique and got pit passes instead of the girls that were around me. I told the guy it wasn’t fair that these people got passes since they all skipped us and we didn’t. He came out with a few and handed it to us.

My sister didn’t get one and neither did this one girl that was in front of us. My sister didn’t mind but the rest of is ripped pieces of our wristbands to make one for the girl that didn’t get one and she succesfully got in.

I don’t even remember what time they let us. I went to the pit and my sister grabbed a seat on the right. Show started at around 8pm. Guys, Aaron Carter came out.

I’ve never actually screamed louder in my life. My young self came alive and was slowly dying. It was beautiful. One of the opening acts by the name of Spots came out. He was good. His guitarist was literally the brown hair version of Joey Thunder. Aaron Carter came back out afterward. More screams. Nalani and Sarani were on next. They were eh. Then Aaron Carter came back out. Even more screams then before. Ryan Cabrera performed an amazing set. Then Aaron came back out and he did three songs. HE SANG I WANT CANDY. I was literally dying. I had the biggest smile on my face. I proudly sang to every single word. The more important of all this, The Cab came on next.

I felt like I hadn’t seen them perform in forever. Their set was amazing. Can’t clearly remember every song they song but they did: Angel With A Shotgun/What Makes You Beautiful/Teenage Dream, Living Louder, Vegas Skies, Endlessly, La La/This Love, Animal, Temporary Bliss, Bounce, Bad, and covered Boyfriend by Justin Bieber. I literally got no pictures or videos of their performance tonight. To excited to see them to even attempt to lift my camera. Alex held my hand literally at least once for each song. It was lovely. He decided to spray us all with water and that frizzed my hair right away. Oh well.

Afterward, I left the auditorium and went by the merch tables. My sister was tired because she actually stood up from her chair and danced and sang along to all the Cab songs since she knew ‘em since I play ‘em so much. Success. She said she’d just wait for me in the car until I was done meeting them. I finally bought the physical copy of SS since I refused to pay $22 for it online. I decided to go to the bathroom before they came out.

The second I came out, Alex got out from backstage. He literally ran to me and said “Hey sweetheart, nice seeing you again.” And hugged me. I pulled out the album and told him I finally got the physical copy and if he could sign it. I lent him my sharpie since I saw he didn’t have one. I guess the guy coordinating the event wanted Alex and the rest of the band by the merch table and he was like “okay, then come with me sweetie.” He just took my hand and was holding it the entire time until we got all the way to merch table. I had the stupidest smile on my face. It was so funny cause one girl had asked if I was Alex’s girlfriend lololol. Thus, this was finally signed:

Whipped out my journal and told him the meaning for it and I told him to just write what he thinks will fit in with it. This is created:

We talked about the summer tour and all and how excited I was because I was going to see them twice. Then he said how they’re going to start on the third album after the tour and I accidently squealed a bit and he laughed. I asked for a picture and this lovely thing came along:

Some girls asked to borrow my sharpie because he didn’t have one so I let them borrow it and I just waited on the side. After he signed a couple of things for these girls, he told me, “If I kiss you on the cheek, will you let me keep this?” So I got my kiss and he got my sharpie and I hugged him goodbye and he told me he’s looking forward to seeing me in the summer. #Ilikecutemomentswithalex

After I escaped the million of people surrounding Alex, I spotted Joey and Dave and dashed over to them. Greeted in hugs and all and also got them to sign SS. I asked ‘em if we can get a Team Salt ‘n Pepper picture and they said sure. Right before the picture was taken, Joey said “I get dahh buhh.” That explains my huge smile. *I actually was looking for Charles the entire time and I never even saw him and I didn’t realize until I saw my pictures when I left that he was in it. #sadpanda I actually really wanted to formally meet him.

High-fived Dave and Joey and told ‘em I’d see them in the summer in NY and NJ and they said they were excited and then I headed on to look for Marsh. Headed towards the backstage exit to wait for him and he ended up coming out five minutes later. Some girl had a picture of Zac Efron and Marshall where they look so much alike. Marsh looked at it and started laughing. The girl wanted a picture of him holding it and he wanted to point at Zac and that came next to him saying, “Oh my god, I actually had to look at the picture to see who was Zac. What the fuck.” It was hilarious.

He led us all towards the merch table and I waited until a few girls were done and went up to him. Got el SS album signed and got a picture afterward. (I always look horrible in my pictures with Marshall, I swear.)

 There was seriously so many people surrounding Marshall, I couldn’t even talk to him without someone putting something in front him to sign or anything so I just hugged ‘em and told ‘em I’d see him in July and August.

Show four was a success. Perfect night. Perfect moments. Can’t wait for July and August to see them all again.