I haven't mentioned on here, but most people that I know, know that I am a HUGE Michael Jackson fan. Have been since I was really little (mom tells me that I would go around singing 'Beat It' before I could even talk in full sentances). His death was a huge blow to me as I always dreamed of seeing him in concert. I even was very close to buying tickets to the "This Is It" tour even though it would have cost a small fortune to travel from where I am (Canada) to even just get to the UK to get in the right country. I was devestated when I learned of his death and have been following the news daily about the trial and what has happened.
Last year I had heard of the Cirque du Soleil show doing a Michael Jackson tribute show. I saw a story on TMZ later about the dates being released and found out that they were listing dates so I went to the official site and was very very shocked that the show would be coming to a large-ish city only an hour away from where I live (I thought I would have to travel hours away to a major city in the States to see it). I then somehow stumbled upon a pre-sale for tickets and managed to get to a site where I could buy tickets right then even though they didn't go on sale for another week. I went through and put in two seats and came up with amazing seats. I very quickly went upstairs to ask mom if she wanted to go and then broke it to her gently that it would be just under $400 for the two seats. I also let her know that even if she didn't want to go to the show, I would be going no matter what. Mom definitly wanted to go but wasn't too sure with the price. Dad came in at that time and said basically if she wanted to go and she said yes, dad then told me to go order the tickets and he would put $200 towards the tickets for our Christmas gift. I then told mom that I would pay the extra $100 for her ticket as her birthday and Christmas gifts so that she wouldn't have to pay anything for them. I went down, ordered our tickets and was so very happy!! For Christmas that year dad also booked us a hotel room so we could go down and enjoy the show without having to worry about driving the hour home at night.
Fast forward a year and the time of the concert has come!! I was so excited. I had been fighting a cold for a few weeks so I did absolutly nothing the week before the show so I wouldnt get sick. Mom volunteers at the school so we left when she got home around 10:30. We had decided to do some shopping so went to this little strip mall that had lots of stores. We went to JYSK, Home Sense, Winners, Toys R Us and a few more stores. I was able to get a small Christmas gift for Kyler but will admit that the majority of what I bought was for myself lol. We headed back to the hotel to check in and get a bit of a rest before going to the show. The doors opened at 7 so we decided to call a cab to get to the show and got there shortly before the doors opened. Then they opened and we were let in!
First thing I saw was a man that was selling programs ($25) and lanyards ($15) and of course I bought both of them. Mom eventually did decide to buy a program for herself as well. We kept on heading to the gate for our seats and came across the souveneir booth. They had lots of different items and it was a tough decision on what to get. Eventually I bought a t-shirt ($40), keychain ($15), poster ($10) and got a free canvas bag as well. Mom and I bought a bottle of pop each and headed to our seats. We had AMAZING seats!! 13 rows up and directly across from the b-stage. The show was just an amazingly great show! I was completely enthralled the entire time. I even was very very close to tears at three different points in the show. Im not going to go into that many details about what happened here, hoping to remember and be able to write a full recap of it at a later time. After the show I was able to hail a cab (first time for everything!) and it took us back to our hotel. We were both quite awake at the point so looked through our programs and watched a bit of TV before heading to bed.
We had planned on some more shopping for the next day but after we went to the first mall and got some breakfast (Cinnabon is so good and their Oreo drink is amazing!) and hit up two different bath product type stores we decided there wasn't much else in the mall so headed to the next side of town. After hitting the second mall we realized there wasn't much else we were looking for so we left that mall. We went to a few more smaller boutique type of stores before spending a great deal of time at Chapters (large bookstore) before heading back for home. We got home around supper and just ordered in some take-out food, got everything unpacked, I had to help K with his homework then watched our evening TV before getting to bed.
It was a great few days and I just loved the show! The live CD of it is coming out next month and I really hope that this means a DVD will be done of the show as well as I would love to be able to relive it over and over again!
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