Was It Worth It?

It has happened...I was standing within 20 yards of Bono! That man is amazing and respectable in more ways than just his music. Now how I got to see U2 in concert is an interesting story. I work at the hospital with a lot of amazing doctors, one of my favorites is Dr. Andrew Garrity. Such a great doctor and such a great guy. Well he is a little bit of a rocker and told everyone months ago that he was going to see U2 play in Phoenix. Needless to say, I was jealous from minute one. Well about a week ago he casually mentions that he has TWO EXTRA FLOOR TICKETS and if I found a friend that I could have them. WHAT!!! I immediately texted Noel and the next day I called him and asked if I could buy the tickets from him. SaWEET! So we arranged to exchange and when I tried handing him the money he said, "Oh I'm trying to get some good karma in my life, so you just go ahead and take those." Of course I tried to make him take my money, but he wouldn't...gotta love that man. Well, I went home and bought my plane ticket to LA where I would meet up with Noel and then we would drive to Phoenix, stay with her uncle and then hit up U2. I flew in on Monday night, and then we drove through the night to get to Phoenix. It is only a 5 hour drive, but little did we know that there is literally NOTHING for 4 of those hours. So....it was a long drive. We pulled into her uncle's place at around 5am, slept for a few hours, got ready, went to her cousins girl scout activity, ate dinner, then headed for the concert. The traffic was insane, so we missed the opening act, which happened to be the Black Eyed Peas (I have seen them before, but it still would have been fun). As we are standing on the floor waiting for U2, I just so happened to spot Dr. Garrity about 5 people in front of us. Noel really wanted to meet the guy that made that trip possible, so we went and chatted with him for just a bit. I don't think I need to tell you how incredible the concert was!!!!! U2 knows how to put on a great show.

After the concert we headed out back to LA....through the nothingness. When we stopped to fill up on gas, I went into the gas station and had a funny conversation with the cashier (who happened to be black, so imagine this conversation with a black accent)

Cashier - "How YOU doing"
Me - "I'm good, how are you?"
Cashier - "Oh I'm good now that you are here."

I laugh and just wait my turn in the line. As I'm standing there he keeps peeking around the other people standing in front of me, and then finally continues...

Cashier - "Oh I remember you"
Me - "Oh do you? You remember ME?"
Cashier - "Oh yeah, you are the one with the pretty eyes."
Me - "Well that is interesting....I've never been here before"
Cashier - "Oh............well I thought that line would work on you."

Once I finally get up to the counter he pays me some more compliments and then I have to tell him once again I've never even been in Phoenix before. Black people = hilarious. After another long drive, Noel and I pull into LA at around 6:30am...just in time for her to change for work and drop me off at the FlyAway so I can get back to the airport. Poor Noel had to stay awake all day at work, which I have no idea how she did that, because I passed out every chance I got. As I'm walking through security, (looking gross from sweating at the concert, driving all night, and not sleeping) the guy (who happens to be black) that waves you through the metal detector says to me as I walk through - "I think you are pretty" and then just continues on his way. Hahaha well it is official!!! Both times I got hit on I was wearing sweatpants!!!! So to my mother....someone out there will take me even in sweatpants.

SO...After 18 hours of driving, 3 separate flights, crazy people in the airport, 1 speeding ticket (yeah, Arizona monitors speeding with cameras...) over the course of 3 days and a total of 8 hours of sleep...FREAK YES IT WAS WORTH IT!!!!


Noel's cousin Sara...she is a cutie.


We finally saw this sign after at least an hour stuck in traffic. We feel like they should have warned us earlier.


Noel was trying to teach me how to dance to her gangsta hip hop music...


At the concert!!!


This guy is like 7 feet tall!! Seriously? I shifted over so I could actually see the stage...


That red spaceship looking thing was the huge screen they projected the concert on...it was awesome.


Obviously we were excited!


During one song I was waving Noel's phone in the air and she asked for the camera. I didn't want to stop waving the phone so I just swung my hips around so she could reach the camera in my back pocket...this is the pose that came about by it.


Because of the nothingness that is Arizona, we ended up pulling over quite a few times to catch a little nap...so we camped out in Noel's car a lot.