Ok...I tried to post this before, but it ended up getting lost! I posted last week I think it was, about going to the show in Virginia Beach and then possibly to the after party. So I had to come back and post about the show. I would have posted sooner, but I had a friend visiting from MA for the weekend, she went to the concert with me.
First I have to say that the show was AMAZING! We had the greatest time, had awesome seats, 10th row on the end. The guys looked and sounded awesome! It was just a great night in that respect.
The sucky part was that the weather was HORRIBLE! It started POURING right before we needed to leave for the concert, and there was a tornado warning going on. But we had to get going, so out in the nasty weather we went. Had to turn around twice because of flooded roads, finally got through and to the amphitheater on the 3rd route we tried. It had slowed up a bit when we parked the car, but of course the second we get out of the car, it wanted to start raining harder. Thank goodness for cheapo ponchos from
Walmart to get us in and to our seats!
What really bummed me out was that because of the weather and all the detours, we ended up missing the Jabbawockeez! I had seen them at the show in Orlando in March and I was excited for my friend to see them at this show. Oh well, there wasn't much we could do about it, and at least she got to see a little bit of them during Jordan's solo. We got to our seats right after Jesse McCartney took the stage.
I got some great pictures of the concert, and at the very end, I ended up going to the front and getting some pretty good shots then too. I posted a ton on my Facebook page, but since I have it set to only friends being able to see, I'm guessing posting a link to them wouldn't work.
My friend that said she could get us tickets to the afterparty ended up not being able to get us tickets after all. I'm kind of glad I didn't get my hopes up about it or else I would have been really upset. We were kind of disappointed but oh well, what could we really do about it? Plus after all the rain and mud we had to go through, we were looking pretty rough...so much for getting all dolled up before the show! Anyway, since it wasn't really raining after the show, we decided to just go by Guadalajaras to see if we could at least see him show up for the party. So we went there and hung out for a bit. After about an hour, 2 vans showed up. One was carrying the girl dancers and the Jabawockeez. The other had Donnie and a bunch of women in it. When Donnie got out of the van to go in to Guads, he walked right past me, I was so close to him! But just as I was getting ready to say something to him, some girl pushed her way in front of me and asked if she could get into the party, so he motioned for someone to give her a wrist band. Then security was around him and pushing him towards the door, even though it looked like he wanted to stay and talk a few mintues with the fans outside, and there weren't that many of us outside. It was just all mass confusion, and because of that, my chance to say anything to Donnie was slim to none. So this is twice this year that I have been face to face with Donnie and not able to talk to him. Just my luck.
Anyway, here's a few pics from the night, since there are so many to post!
Kind of dark but Donnie heading into Guads....I was so excited to see him that I couldn't figure out how to work the camera!