8 Hours Was Well Worth the Wait

OK so, yesterday was the Gavin DeGraw concert at the Lakewood Theater in Dallas. Me and 2 of my friends DEFINETELY got there at like, 12:30 and the doors were scheduled to open at 7:30. When we arrived, we attempted to befriend the girls who were ALREADY waiting in front of us in line. "Hey fellow Gavin fans! What time did yall get here?!" To which they very snobbishly replied, "3am... We came from the Austin concert." Apparently they thought since they had slept on the street in Dallas all night, that made them cooler than us. That was OK though, we just from then on, referred to them as the MEAN GIRLS.

Speaking of Mean Girls, we had my portable DVD player and were watching that to help us get through the long day of waiting. A couple hours into our stay in line, 2 girls that had driven 8 hours from Kansas, got behind us in line. We ended up talking to them and liking them a lot. They really liked our Texas accents and the fact that we say "Yall." It was refreshing though to have someone nice in line with us besides the MEAN girls in front of us...

Anyway, 7 hours go by and it's now 7 o' clock. Thirty minutes till the doors open, when none other but the QUEEN BEE herself arrived at the show. Apparently the MEAN girls in front of us really were the wannabees, and had been there all day to save her a spot in line. However, my group and the other 800 people behind us were not so agreeing. We began talking very loudly about how "ANNOYING IT IS TO WAIT 8 HOURS AND HAVE PEOPLE CUT IN LINE!" After about 30 minutes and 400 death stares from this girl, she finally went to the back of the line... We cheered.

Anyway, we get inside and DEFINETELY are standing on the FRONT ROW. The concert was AMAZING. He did like, every song on his CD and then played a lot more. I got to shake his hand during I Don't Wanna Be and my friend caught one of his guitar picks. Seriously, Best Concert EVER. (Besides John Mayer because well, he's amazing too) But anyway, after the show we were all EXHAUSTED because by then we had been at the theater for TWELVE hours. BUT. We didn't leave just yet, we waited around for another hour or so to MEET him. It was so cool, I got my t-shirt and CD signed and got a picture with him too. It was very nice of him to wait around after the show to meet 300 people. OH, and while we were waiting, the Mean Girl Queen Bee was ahead of us talking to him and apparently trying to give him her number. The whole time she was there we were shouting out, "She's a mean girl, a MEAN GIRL!" I don't think she liked us very much...

Ahh but anyway, the whole day was awesome, I was front row at Gavin DeGraw and got to meet him. So, to those of you who are going to the show tonight, HAVE FUN and it's AMAZING, to those of you who could/should have gone to the show, you REALLY missed out, and to those of you who don't have a clue who Gavin DeGraw is, go buy his CD, Chariot, RIGHT NOW!!!