And so the adventure begins

After we pulled into Brittany's driveway, I sent her a text telling her we had arrived. A few minutes later, a very excited Brittany burst through the front door and came running towards us. After she got in, we pulled out to officially begin our adventure. While we were leaving the neighborhood, I told Miranda to put in the new Forever The Sickest Kids CD. We had a two-hour drive to learn all the words. Luckily there were only six songs. The CD is the first in a series of three.

Now, Gabriel doesn't exactly have the best speakers in the world, but we blasted that CD like it was nobody's business. Before we knew it, we were already in Orlando. A little while longer and we were pulling into the Disney parking lot. The show was at the House of Blues on City Walk. It would be the first time Miranda and I have been in there.

When we arrived, we got out of the car and got all of the stuff we needed for the show. Tickets, check. Camera, check. Money for shirts, check. We then proceeded to enter the park. The concert didn't start for a little while, so we walked around exploring. While walking up a hill past the Harley Davidson store, I noticed a very tall guy with nice blonde hair walk past us. I did a double take and called after Brittany and Miranda, who had kept walking.

"Hey! Brittany! Wait a second!"

She stopped and turned around. "What is it?"

I ran up to meet them so I wouldn't have to awkwardly shout. "A guy just passed me who looked suspiciously like Kyle Burns…" I informed her while raising an eyebrow and looking in the direction of the Harley store.

"WHAT?!" Next thing I knew, we were running down the hill towards the store. We peered around the corner and, sure enough, Kyle Burns…the tall, blonde, nose-ringed drummer of Forever The Sickest Kids was sitting on a Harley, with his assumed girlfriend taking a picture of him. Miranda, Brittany, and I were speechless and decided it would be best if we didn't bother him. It was comforting knowing that we weren't the pesky kind of stalkers.

After the Kyle-incident, we decided to head down to the House of Blues and get in the extremely long line of people. Turns out, the line we were in was the special line that you could only be in if you bought something in the House of Blues store worth $15. We took off running to try and find something worthwhile. Miranda and I ended up getting the same $15 tank top, only in different colors, while Brittany splurged and got a $30 hoodie.

"There goes our food." I mumbled while handing the cashier a twenty.

We then went back to the special line, for real this time. After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, the doors opened and everyone rushed to get in. Our line got in before the non-special line, so we got pretty close to the front of the stage. While we were packed in, Brittany and I went upstairs to the merch table to get some shirts while Miranda attempted to save our spaces down below. Brittany and I both got the orange shirt with a picture of the band as Power Rangers. It was truly an epic shirt. I got a white v-neck that said "Forever The Sickest Kids" on the front and back for Miranda.

As soon as Brittany and I made it back to where Miranda was waiting, the lights dimmed and the curtains began to open. First up was Artist Vs. Poet. They were pretty good, and I ended up catching my first drumstick with my feet…somehow. Next was My Favorite Highway. They were pretty decent as well. Nothing too exciting. Then Sing It Loud came up and things got pretty rowdy. We ended up having to fight our way out of the murderous crowd to seek safety and water. Last up on the opening acts was The Rocket Summer.

While Bryce Avery was performing on his piano, we went upstairs to the balcony-type-thing to get a better view. We were standing by the merch table when a tall redhead in a blue hoodie, red glasses, and a gray beanie sped by. We almost had a heart attack after realizing that the sexy man was Caleb Turman. He came back towards us a few minutes later and I ran up to ask for a picture. He ducked down and looked around cautiously.

"Uhhh…sure...just…come over here…" He gently grabbed my arm and pulled me off into a corner. My heart began to race.

"I'm sort of in disguise right now," he confessed. How on earth he was "in disguise," I will never know. I giggled at his remark and then he asked in the sweetest voice if I had any gum. I have never wanted gum so badly in my life. I just wanted to close my eyes, stick my hand in my pocket, and pull out a piece of newly materialized gum. But alas, I had left it in my car. Oh how I wish I could just teleport things like that. After I told him I didn't, he said it was alright and I snapped the picture. As soon as the flash went off, a million girls turned towards us and began approaching. Needless to say, Caleb ran off.