Wow, So Saturday Was Pretty Much The Best Day Ever. I Woke Up At 4 AM Because I Couldnt Sleep And I Would Have Had To Wake Up At 5 Anyways To Leave For New York. We (Meaning My Mom, Dad, 2 Uncles, Brother, Sister, Friend, And Me) Left My House At 6 And Ended Up In NYC At About 11 (Just A Side Note For Lindsey, We Saw A Tim Horton's On The Way So I Made My Family Stop..They Good Food! [: ) . Umm, Well We Couldnt Check Into Our Hotel Yet So We Wandered Around A Bit To Look For The Venue And It Turned Out To Be only About 3 Or 4 Blocks From Where We Were Staying. We Had Some Great Pizza For Lunch And, After Checking Into Our Hotel, Decided To Do Some Sightseeing. Around 2 O' Clock We Went By The Venue And There Was Already A Line Of About 20 People And, Seeing As My Dad Refused To Get In Line Until 6 I Was Getting Rather Nervous. I Texted Andrea And Told Her And She Said That She Was Getting Presents For The Guys But She Would Try To Get In Line Soon And Would Try Saving Me A Spot (THANK YOU!!!). So We Kept Going In An Attempt To Get To Times Square And What Do I See But 2 Dour Buses, One With A Switchfoot Bumper Sticker. That Was Exciting But What Was Even More Exciting Was When Someone Came Walking Down The Street Talking On His Cell Phone. But Of Course This Wasnt Just Any Someone, This Was An Certain Mr. Jon Schneck :) Well, Needless To Say I Was Excited. I Was Even More Excited When My Mom And I Started To Walk Up To Him, He Noticed Us, Smiled, Hung Up His Phone, And Came Over With A Hug. It Was Like We Were Best Friends Or Something. We Just Started Talking And Took Some Pictures.
Then He Told Us That Thiessen Was In Madison Square Garden Watching The Illinois State Football Game And Had Been Sick Lately But That He Had Told Matt That We Were Coming And He Wanted To Meet Us! That Was So Amazing! Jon Had To Go Then But I Gave Him His/Everyones Presents ( Starbucks Giftcards And Scarves That My Mom And I Knit) And He Said He'd See Us After The Show.After That Awesomeness I Just Had To Call Andrea And Tell Her, So We Talked For A Little While And She Was Already In Line While Her Friend Was Working On Their Present For Schneck. Anyways, Then We Went To Central Park, Times Square (After My Dad Assured Us He Knew Where He Was Going And Ended Up Passing Times Square By About 10 Blocks), And Back To The Hotel To Get Ready To Get In Line...Or So I Thought. Apparently My Family Isnt As Relient K Ecstatic As Me And No One Would Come With Me To Get In Line. Then Andrea Called And Said That The Line Was Wicked Long And That She Would Try To Keep Our Spot But We Should Get There As Soon As Possible. Well, I Got Half Of My Family To Come So We (My Mom, Sister [Rachel], Friend [Amanda], And I) Went To The Hammerstein Ballroom And After About 15 Minutes Of Searching Found Andrea (The Snapple Cart! :D ). She Was Really Far Up In The Line And Im Very Lucky To Have A Friend Like Her, Otherwise I Would Have Been Stuck 3 Blocks Back At The End Of The Line. We Hung Out And Talked For A While And After About An Hour The Doors Opened And We Went Inside. Unfortunately, Andrea Had Balcony Tickets And We Had Floor So We Couldnt Be Together For The Show But I Know We Each Had Loads Of Fun. Ruth Came Out And I Thought That They Were Great But The Crowd Was The Lamest That I Have Ever Seen. The Most That Anyone Did Was Clap And Even At That People Stared At You Funny. Oh Well, Then Relient K Came Out And They Were Fantastic, As Always. The Crowd Got A Bit Better During There Set And This One Guy That I Was Next To Was Hilarious. Once Matt Came Out He Started To Flip Out About His Mustache :) It Was Entertaining. Then, When Be My Escape Started He Started To Flip Out Again Because "This Song Is My LIFE!!!!!" HaHa, So We Both Started Dancing And Everyone Thought We Were Crazy. Then I Somehow Got Up To About The Third Row Of People And Met This Kid Named Sean. He Was There For Switchfoot And Didnt Expect Relient K To Be As Great As They Were And He Was Laughing At Me The Whole Time They Were Playing Because Apparently I Was Really Rocking Out But I Got Him To Join Me Once The Snow Fell For Sleigh Ride. :D He Was Also Surprised At My Knowledge Of Sadie Hawkins Dance When I Explained That They Were Going To Get Someone To Play With Them After Matt Asked For A Volunteer. He Just Kinda Stared At Me And Was Like "Have You Seen Them Before?" YES!!!
Anywho, Then Switchfoot Came On And Wow, Were They Fantastic! Jon Foreman Sure Knows How To Put On A Show. He Started Crowd Surfing At One Point And Im Proud To Say That I Helped Stop Him From Falling On The Floor :] The He Just Walked Right Through The Crowd And Climbed Up On A Balcony And Started Singing. I Was Surprised That The Crowd Didnt Mob Him But Like I Said Before, They Were Like Dead People. He Also Did A Wicked Funny Remix Of Crazy In Love, Gone, And Umbrella...Good One Mr. Foreman. Rebuild Was Done In The Middle of Their Set And It Was Phenomenal.
After The Show We Waited Around Inside For A While With Andrea And Her Friend Aldo But The Security Guys Lived Up To Their Mean New Yorker Standard And Were Herding Everyone Out Like Cattle. Andrea Disappeared And I Didnt Know Where She Went So My Family, Amanda, And I Went Outside And Back To The Buses. We Waited There For A Little While And Then Jon Came Out And, After Signing A Couple Of Autographs For Some People, Came Over To Us. At This Point I Talked To Andrea On The Phone And Told Her To Hurry Out Back Because Jon Was There. She Said She'd Be There Soon And Then Appeared A Few Minutes Later To Talk To Jon. We Talked For A While (He Repeatedly Thanked Me For The Gift And Seemed Really Shocked That I ActuallyKnit The Scarves..."Did You Make Them? Thats So Cool!") And He Said That Matty T. And Dave Were Coming Out To Go Somewhere Soon So He Would Tell Them We Were Here. So e Went Back On The Bus And After A While Who Comes Out But Mr. Matthew Arnold Thiessen. Now That Was Exciting. He Came Over And Was Really Shy And It Was So Funny. We All Just Kinda Stood There Looking At Each Other And I Broke The Silence With "Do you Want To Meet The Irish Fellows?" HaHa, Matt Was Like "Oh, Yeah Yeah!" So I Introduced Them. Now, If You Were Meeting Your Hero Who You AHve Wanted To Meet For Years What Do You Think You Would Talk About? I Bet Its Nothing Like What I Actually Did Talk About. Well, Im Sure Your Curious....We Talked About...Checkoslovakia And His Grandma. How Lame Am I!? HaHa, It Does Make A Good Story Though :]
Anyways, After That Retardedness We Took Some Pictures And He Went Back On The Tour Bus. (At This Point My Dad, Brother, And Uncles Left To Get Some Sleep.) Then We Started Talking To This Guy Named Rob Who Looks Like Thiessen And Has Actually Been Mistaken For Him A Few Times. Even Matt Sees it And Upon Meeting Him Once Said "Hello, Good Looking." Nice One, Matt. :) We Took A Picture With Rob Too, Just For Good Measure.
Then Who Should Come Walking Down The Street But Good Old Johnny Warning. Also, Hoopes Kinda Appeared Out Of Midair :) i Talked To John For A Bit And Then Moved On To Hoopes And Of Course My Mom Just Had To Mention Allie Dunigan. Allie Is This Girl Know That Just Happens To Be Matt's Cousin (Although He Then Said That She Is Actually His Unlce's Wife's Cousin). That Was Rather Awkward. Then We Got A picture With The Both Of Them Before They Went Off To Get Something To Eat.
After Taking The Picture I Then Turned Around To See Who But The One And Only Shannon Coming Out Of The Bus With Matt. I Talked To Her For A Very Short Time And They All Left For Food. You Might Be Wondering Where Dave Was In All Of This. Well, I Have No Idea. My Mom And I Started Talking To Derek, The Merch Guy, And When We Mentioned That We Hadnt Seen Dave He Asked If We Wanted Him To Check The Bus For Us. So He Did But He Came Out And Said That No One Was On The Bus, He Hadnt Checked Dave's Bunk But He Usually Stays Up Late So We Had No Clue Where He Was.At This Point People Are Running Across The Street So We Went Over To See What Was Happening And Jon Foreman Was Giving An Acoustic Show In The Sidewalk. It Was Great. Andrea Got Some Great Footage Of It So Ask Her If you Want To See It. After I Got To Say About One Word To Him But Couldnt Get A Picture Because He Was Trying To Put His Stuff Away. We Crossed Back Over The Street The Tour Buses And All Of Switchfoot Was Over There So Andrea And I Each Got Pictures With Tim Foreman And Jerome.
Then I Saw Ethan Luck Standing Off To The Side Enjoying Himself By Watching All The Crazy Fans And I Told Andrea That We Should Go Over And Say Hi. So We Went Over And The First Thing He Said Was "Do You Even Know Who I Am?" "Yes, Your Ethan Luck" (Insert Big Smile On His Face) "From Demon Hunter. " (Insert Even Bigger Smile And A New Readiness To Talk) "Wow, You Really Do Know Who I Am!" We Talked To Him For A While But Andrea Wandered Off So It Was Just My mom And I Talking To Him For A Good 20 Minutes About Some Very Interesting Things That I Dont Know If I Should Talk About So I'll See If I Can And Get Back To You :] Then He Had To Go Because His Wife Called To Say Goodnight. That Pretty Much Wrapped Up My Night. We Said Bye To Rob ( We Were Still Hanging Out Throughout This Whole Thing) And Andrea And Aldo Headed Back To The Hotel With Us.That Just About Sums Up My Relient K Filled Night...I Hope You Enjoyed Reading About It Although I Dont See Why Or How Anyone Could Even Get Through That Jumbled Mess. Oh Well, Some Of You Did Ask For It. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!
Sarah
