Ed Sheeran's Concert Part 1 of 2

Ed Sheeran has been my favorite artist for a few years now, ever since I first acquired his + (plus) album in 2012. All of his songs are so deep, and have a meaning to him. A good example of this is his song "Afire Love." From the lyrics the listener can figure out that his grandfather suffered from dementia and died when Ed was six years old. It is a beautiful song with a nice melody that you can watch below.

Last night I was honored to pay $70 for general admission tickets to see Ed at the Palace of Auburn Hills. I had never gotten general admission tickets so I wasn't sure what to do. When I had purchased the tickets the map showed me that I was going to sit in ground floor section 2 which was behind the ground floor section in front of the stage. I was a little bummed that we weren't going to be super close, but I was still happy that we were pretty close. Then there was a whole fiasco about the tickets being credit-card entry and my card being stolen last week, so I had to call the box office to see how to get my tickets when I got to the concert because obviously I couldn't swipe my credit card. I had that straightened out Tuesday so last night we hopefully would be able to get into the concert smoothly. That wasn't the case. When my friend and I arrived around 5:00, (the concert started at 7:30) we thought we were early, but the line to get in was about 100 yards long. That means that I was going to have 100 yards of typical white girls between Ed Sheeran and I. Some of which had been waiting there since 9:00 this morning.

I had to go to the bathroom anyways so we went in a different entrance to see where I can print my tickets off and go potty. There was no potty in sight so I put it at the back of my mind and went up to a ticket booth. I asked the lady to print my tickets off to which she replied that they weren't printing tickets until 5:30, and we had to get in the long ass line until then. It took us five minuted to hike to the back of the line where we waited together for about ten minutes and then I left Kaitlin and went to go get in the line inside to print the tickets off. While I was in line for that I was talking to the girls around me about how the lady told me to wait in the long ass line to get in, and they told me that all the general admission people have to wait inside. That was news to me. I had to call Kaitlin to tell her to come inside because according to the friends I had just made, we needed wristbands. After Kaitlin and I reunited we got the tickets printed off and got in another line to receive wristbands. There were two colors of wristbands; orange and yellow. We got the orange ones. Then we had to get into another line to wait until the doors opened. When it was 6:00 they should've been starting to get people inside, but something was stopping the process. Apparently we were in three lines and then we had to be in two, and then we had to be in one. It was so confusing and crazy. After we finally pushed through the line to get our tickets scanned, we went to get into the actual event area. We walked down the steps to get to the floor and I saw the two sections, the ground floor 2 was for yellow wristbands and ground floor 1 was for orange wristbands, which we had. We got to be directly in front of the stage! It was a dream come true. 

Please enjoy this lovely music video featuring Ed Sheeran and a cat. Next week I will post about the concert itself.