Yeah well ... I haven't enered in a day or so. HERE'S YOUR UPDATE KIDDIES. [LINE] Friday...
Well Thursday too. Meagan slept over and we watched a crapload of movies. We also made the tie-dye cake of doom, and these crazy muffins ... but they really didn't work all that well. :?. We didn't get dressed until about 4:30 yesterday and we headed out the door at 4:55 to make our way to the bus station to go see [i]NICKELBACK, STAIND AND THREE DAYS GRACE![/i]
On our way into the Corel Centre, a red ball cap caught my eye. Ian, Corey and Alex were standing outside waiting for Seymour and Maddy. Shane and the two Bri's were already inside. So we waited for Seymour for about 45 minutes.
P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY MATT!!
When he finally showed up, we made our way though the mass of what was supposed to be a line-up, and then got felt up (okay, patted down, whatever) by some old dude. He went a little high, if you know what I mean, while checking all of our legs. lol.
We were all in the 300's level, and for some reason I thought we were in section 302. So Meagan and I sat in our seats there, and Seymour, Ian, Alex and Corey met Shane in their seats in section 304. The two Bri's were in section 305. We watched [i]Three Days Grace[/i] first, and they weren't amazing. They were good! But not incredible. I think it may have been because not everyone was focused on the show, 'cause alot of people were still coming in to the show.
During first intermission, I went to buy a shirt, but much to my dissapointment, discovered that I was $2 short of buying a shirt :cry:. So Meagan and I made our way back to what we thought were our seats. It turned out that we were actually in section 304, really close to everyone else! Matt (Seymour) saw us, and told us to come down to sit with them in the two seats by their group that were free. That lasted about 3 minutes, as the owners showed up. So then we went to sit with the Bri's, but that lasted even less time, and we were kicked out again. So we sauntered our way back to good ol' section 304.
After that, we watched [i]Staind[/i]. Holy crap they were amazing!! Honestly! We were so lucky too, Ottawa was the last city on the tour who would get to see Staind, 'cause they're leaving the tour!
Second intermission, Matt, Ian, Shane and Corey came up to talk to us. We went off with them just to talk for a bit. Matt met up with Maddy (she had different seats than us, she was sitting with a few other friends) and did a lap of the stadium. He came back telling us about these awesome seats that weren't roped off and were totally free. So everyone; Shane, Matt, Ian, Corey, Alex, Bri, Bri, Meagan, and I went to sit there for Nickelback.
HOLY CRAP NICKELBACK WAS AWESOME! Especially the fire. Me lovesss the fire. lol, no but seriously, they were great! At one point during the show Chad said to the crowd, "Who knows what time it is?" *half the stadium checks their watches* "IT'S BEER O'CLOCK!" At this point, a huge trolley of beer in plastic cups gets rolled out on stage and the band starts chucking them to the crowd. It was great! They were all getting drenched in beer.
As soon as Nickelback came out on stage, I smelled this huge cloud of weed sweep over me. It was so funny. There was some chick in our row smoking this huge, and I mean huge joint! Oh yeah, and word for the wise, Zippos can get pretty hot after a while. :wink:
My least favorite song [i](Hero)[/i] was made SO MUCH BETTER, 'cause Arron Lewis of [i]Staind[/i] came out and accompanied Chad in it! That made me love the song. Also they did a Metallica cover! Bri A. and I were freaking!
Okay, for anyone who was at the concert last night, and especially if you were on the floor, I have a bone to pick with most of you. I know that the security and safety measures were really high, but honestly people! You got floor tickets for a reason! Move around a little!! I swear, until Chad told the crowd to jump during the chorus of one song, NO ONE MOVED! lol, it was really funny how the bouncers would kick anyone who was body surfing out. One guy got kicked out twice, I don't know how he managed that one. lol.
Also! After Nickelback left for the first time, people started to leave. I mean, seriously people have you NEVER been to a concert before?! There was no CD music, which they had played the whole time, except for when people were on stage (duh), there were still laser thingys going off, there was that dramatic bass feedback noise in the background AND the house lights weren't on! And most importantly, anyone who's a Nickelback fan would have noticed that they did NOT play [i]"How You Remind Me", [/i]their biggest hit of their career. I swear all of these people felt like such morons when they ran back to their seats when the guys came back out on stage.
The concert had two 18-wheelers of pyro-technics. All that stuff was crazy! I could feel the heat off of the flame spurts up in nosebleed! And it was hot man! There was some crazy stuff there, I'm telling ya, and the fireworks were great too!
Yeah, so the concert was great, and the company was even better. After the show, we made plans to meet up at [i]Local Heroes[/i] on Bank st. Ian drove all the guys in his car, and Meagan and I bussed. We didn't really know which bus would take us right past [i]Local Heroes[/i], so we just walked. It was nice. There was almost nobody out, and we both love walking at night.
Our timing turned out to be perfect, 'cause we got in the doors right as the guys were taking off their coats. We played pool for a bit then got some food. We got there at about ... oh ... 11:50 maybe, we left at .... 1:20. Somewhere there. All I know is that I didn't get home until 2:00.
Thanks Meagan, and everyone else who went to that. It was freaking awesome! (Shane, I hope you've bathed by now.) Go seat changing madness! We changed seats a total of 5 times! [LINE] Saturday...
Well I got about 4 hours of sleep last night, 'cause I had to be at work for 7:30. God Josh, you're a jerk. ANYWAY. Nothing really interesting happened today, just a really long work day, that was really busy and really boring. A good thing is though, I got paid $110.27 in cash ^^.
After work, mom took me to buy batteries for tomorrows’ trip (yeah, tomorrow is the Regional Champs in Smith Falls, so I'm gonna need my discman). I ended up buying 3 CD's in the process. [i]Eagles - Greatest Hits of All Time[/i] for my dad, his birthday is next Monday, but I'll listen to the CD as much as he will :wink: and I also bought myself [i]Nickelback's Silver Side Up[/i] and [i]The State[/i]. I now have all but one of their CD's.
After that, mom decided not to go to my Dad's hockey game ... well for the team he's head coach of. Sorry if I snubbed you Ian! So I came home, had pea soup, and then read and entered this blog.
I hope that everyone who's at Sarah is having a good time. It's probably better I didn't go anyway. Both of my ex's were there, and it was year ago today that Braden and I started going out. :? Ah well. One day my feelings will die, then nothing will ever hurt ever!
Well, it's 8:30, I'm exhausted and I have to win a tournament tomorrow. Enjoy your evening kiddies.
Yeah well ... I haven't enered in a day or so. HERE'S YOUR UPDATE KIDDIES.