American IDOL Concert 2007

Every once in awhile, really cool things happen to us. Here's one that I have wanted to scrapbook, but since I am 3 or more years behind, I've decided to blog it instead. After watching the American IDOL season for the first time in 2007, the kids really wanted to go to the IDOL concert. Hearing that tickets can sell out in the first few hours, I went online when sales opened and purchased what were supposed to be "best available" seats for the July concert in Tacoma. Well, once we got to the Tacoma Dome, we found out we had really lousy seats. Off to the right of the stage and on the 2nd level. We couldn't see very well and the accoustics were terrible. But, it was still alot of fun and we were happy to be there. At intermission Pat went down and ended up talking to an usher who mentioned that if we happened to move into some of the empty center bleacher-type seats, nobody would really notice.... So we moved! Our new seats for the 2nd half of the concert were great. After the concert ended, we headed back down to the floor to exit, when I noticed that my brand new, pink Razor cell phone was missing! We figured I had dropped it by our old seats so Pat headed back up there to look. While we were waiting for him, a woman came up to us, asked how many people we had in our group, then asked if we wanted 3 back stage passes and practically dropped them in our hands and left before I could even thank her! While this was going on, Alex had headed back up to our new seats to look for my phone, and actually found it! We used it to call Pat to come back down and then we headed to the back stage entrance with our 3 passes. Once we got to the entrance, the usher wanted to see our passes and questioned the fact that we had 4 people and 3 passes. We started to try and negotiate a little girl (Rachel!) coming through with no pass, when the usher just waved us through! (Otherwise, Pat was willing to sit out, while the 3 of us went in.) It was amazing! The kids were able to meet and get their pictures with every Idol except Haley, who left early. Rachel had her program book autographed and Alex had his shirt signed! The highlight for both kids was meeting Blake. (Although he was swarmed - since he is from Bothell, WA). What a cool experience!