Big Summer Ticket

What an amazing adventure.  If you have never sat on the lawn at the Molson Ampitheatre I highly recommend it.  Even though this was a kid's concert, and that was primarily why we went, it was pretty awesome. 

So our first chaotic mess was driving along the lakeshore during CNE, yep don't recommend that at all. Darryl dropped us off as close to the doors as he possibly could before I went crazy, and we left early.  We walked up to the gates, saw the crowd of people and well just stood and made friends with the others around us.  I have this habit of talking to random people in the line just to pass the time.  We met up with Sue and the girls, Auntie Nikki and Caden and Mackenzie, and Cecile and her girls and we took my little sister Gwen and all of us trekked up to the lawn area to find a seat.  And then we moved, it is not fun having a pole in the way of the people you would like to listen to.

And we waited, and waited, and well waited.  Then Eleven Past One came on and the girls and I started to dance along.  I really like these guys and so does Mylee, she was up bouncing along with her arm in the air having fun.   Then a short break when I went to get some popcorn, and met a really nice guy in the line. 

This line was total and complete chaos, all I wanted was some popcorn and drinks and yeah they were really bad.  It got to a point where the guy behind me offered me his American Express card to go into the lounge and get free popcorn.  I considered it but then would have felt horrible if they charged him anything so I declined but we had a good laugh anyway, and can you believe they ran out of popcorn just before I hit the front.  Was still in line 15 minutes later when the popcorn showed up again.  So word of advice, if you want food there prepare to stand in line for an hour. 

As a result I missed Victoria Duffield perform but heard her sing and watched the monitor they had at the snack bar.  I got back in time for Zendaya, which I think was the most that an artist was up there and sorry but I was done with her about 5 songs in, and I think most of our crew was too. 

Then the big show, the one we wanted to see, R5!!!!  And the 2nd song in we were all dancing and singing along to one of the best songs from his new movie.  It was a tiring night for all of us and by the time we got home we were all ready for bed, thank goodness.  Our next adventure started early in the morning.