most perfect day

Beware: This is going to be  a long detailed post.

Thursday morning. Madison made the first flight out to Salt Lake from Atlanta- miracle! Since the flights all said overbooked online. So I drove to pick her up at 9:45 and while I was driving up I pasted the Extreme Home Makeover Bus (which was escorted by a police car) and also a huge trailer that had a house on it! It was so cool, I wish I could've taken a picture of it, but alas I was driving. I do love that show! And have met Ty Pennington in the Airport before (back when he was the carpenter on Trading Spaces).

So I pick Madison up and we start our drive into Salt Lake to the Gateway Mall. And while we were driving there was a lot of construction and the road we were supposed to take was closed, luckily the Free Shuttle to Temple Square pulled up next to us and I knew that I could follow that Shuttle and find the Mall from there. And blessing-- it lead us straight to the road we were looking for in the first place so we turned right while it went straight to get to the Temple. And there was our parking garage. It was perfect!

Madison and I then walk around shopping, and found cute clothes to buy. Then we were trying to get to some bathrooms and were walking around when this guy comes up to us. He introduces himself and tells us he is from the radio station 99.5. He goes on to ask us if we would come watch Andy Grammer perform. They set up a little show for him and nobody showed up, and so He was out recruiting people to come watch him. So we were like okay, sure. We didn't really have a huge schedule, just hanging out til the Parachute show that night. The guy lead us into this restaurant, Flemings (a super nice restaurant). And the guy then hands us this envelope and says because we like you girls so much here are two free tickets to The State Room for Natasha Bedingfield, Kate Voegele, and Andy Grammer concert that night! We looked at each other and were freaking out inside but tried to keep our composure. Once in Flemings we were a bit confused cause it was empty but they lead us to this back room where they had a whole table full of food and drinks. We walk in and were offered drinks so we took water and then they offered us food, and didn't know if it was free so I just asked and yes, it was all free! We filled up our plates and then asked where the bathroom is because if you remember that is where we were headed first and never got there. We go into the bathroom and start freakin out!!! We just got sweet tickets to see Kate Voegele!!!! And then free food and a free low key pre-show concert with Andy Grammer.

After that we were just on a high the rest of the day. Although we were a bit confused on what we should do because we really wanted to see Parachute perform, but we love Kate too. And they were both free. We finished shopping and then headed to temple square to hang out. We did all that we wanted at Temple Square and decided around 4:30 to start walking to the Gallivan Center to check it out. As we are walking to the Center to boys stop us and ask if we have change. They are trying to pay for parking and only had a $10, and fortunately we did have change so we exchanged that with them. We get to the Gallivan Center and we are like one of the first ten people there. (I guess that is because we were 2 hours early, haha) And so we go and sit front row and watch all the bands do their sound check.  While we are sitting there we see the two boys we have given change to walk up and sit near us.

We started talking to them and made friends. We chatted to help the next two hours pass by quicker. Allred started the show at 7pm and was awesome as always. We got our new friends, Kyle and James (aka Daniel and Corbin) to be real fat and save our spots as we ran down 6 blocks to the State Room to try and get into the concert and watch Kate Voegele perform and be back for the Parachute portion of the other concert.


We get to the State room and they won't let us in. Since they serve alcohol you have to be 21 and up to get in. We stood outside to try and sell our tickets and make all profit because we got them for free. We saw some guys walking around to the back alley where the tour buses were and both of us were thinking that they might be members of Kate's band.  So we went to the alley and listened through this door to Andy play and then those guys were like "hey, you can come talk to us, we're not scary" and we asked what band they were in and they said Kate's. So we walk over to them and tell them our sob story about not getting in and they are sympathetic. And think its so messed up that we can't get in. We asked them if they could bring Kate out for us to meet her, but she was unfortunately getting ready for the show and was in her dressing room already. He said she would come into the alley at 9-ish if we wanted to wait for her and that he would tell her about us! But we decided to go back to the Parachute concert and enjoy that since we couldn't go inside and also our friends said our front row spots were closing in and they were trying to hold them off til we got back.

We ran back six blocks to  the Gallivan Center and made it back to the front row just in time for Parachute. Their show was freaking awesome! Best concert I've been too. After the show we walked back to the Gateway Mall and our parking ended up only being $3 and we were parked there for like 12 hours! It was so great! And then we decided to drive over to The State Room again and see if we could meet Kate or something. So we park and walk back to the alley where we can hear Natasha Bedingfield performing through the door. And she does a few songs and then our favorite, Unwritten and we are singing and dancing along outside.  A few minutes later we see someone come out the other back door and it was KATE! We like freak out as she is walking towards us and she comes up and chats with us for like 5 minutes and apologized we couldn't see her show. She was so sweet. We're like best friends now. And we got a picture with her and her autograph.

Basically, Madison and I are the most blessed girls ever. And had the most perfect day.

xoxo