Some random Garth Brooks thoughts

I'm a very lucky girl.

Tonight I got to see Garth Brooks play for not the first, or the second, but the third time.

The first time I was 10 years old. My aunt and uncle for some reason got me a ticket to go with them. I still remember he started 'The Old Stuff', and I'll never forget how he tricked us into thinking he was playing the piano at the beginning of the song, but actually rose up and out from the middle of the piano during the line "and I pray that SASKATOON (ba-dum!) goes wild toniiiight". And of course the place went nuts. My aunt and uncle were really on my mind tonight, and as my uncle's father passed away this morning.

At one point my mom turned back to me and said that she had goosebumps. Not gonna lie, I kinda rolled my eyes. I've never had that experience. Until tonight. I noticed it. During 'Thunder Rolls', Garth did sang the secret verse, and all of a sudden I felt shivers in my legs. It was eerie. Maybe it's happened before, I dunno, maybe I only noticed it because my mom pointed out. It was awesome though!

When Trisha Yearwood came out I got a bit sad. It was the same routine they did at Garth's show in Vegas. Last June I went to see him play at the Wynn, front row. I went with two girlfriends who I am now both figuratively and literally oceans away from. A lot changes in a year. Just not the Garth and Trisha act. Which is sort of nice. They are lovely.

Its nice to watch a professional band have some tempo issues.

I heard a bunch of people got ripped off on fake tickets. I got ripped off once when I was 13 for a fake backstage pass to *NSYNC. It blows.

I lost my phone last weekend, and while it's been a major inconvenience, tonight it felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I didn't have the means nor feel the need to communicate my enjoyment of the show IN REAL TIME. I got to simply experience Garth Brooks instead of taking breaks to show off what I was doing. No worrying about getting a personal shot of him, no scrambling to get the video camera app working. No checking to see if anybody liked or commented on what I was posted. I get to talk about that it all now, and both my concert experience and this account of it have benefited from having full attention to one thing.

Welp, now it's blazing hot and I gotta try and get some sleep so I don't sleep in again tomorrow morning. The thunder's rolling though, and that's pretty awesome.