Hey y'all! I dont know if you remember but I was having a hard time chosing between the AI concert or the Carrie concert and y'all were helping me (thank you soo much)!! well I did choose Carrie, and even though it would have been great to see Kellie, I'm soooooooooooooooooooo glad I chose Carrie!!!! I just thought I'd share my story!
OMG!!!!!!! 
First of all, I had slept a total of 5 minutes the night before because I was way too excited to sleep! (haha, y'all know, i was on here all night!), and i was too nervous to eat all day!
So anyways, we were driving ALL morning, arrived in Springfield earlier than expected because we were able to avoid Chicago traffic, and we go to our hotel and everything and then we went shopping for a gift for Carrie cuz they have all these stores and malls and everything else in Springfield. I ended up getting a t-shirt that says "Keepin' It Country" and it has this tractor on it, it was really cute. And also I couldnt find any Carebears! Grr! The only ones I could find SANG and were really scary. So I got her this little dog that looked like Blondie! Yeah it's really cute. Oh and I think y'all have seen the pictures of my room, Carrie EVERYWHERE, hahaha, yeah put those in there too!
We finally get to the Fair around 5 pm. We pretty much go straight to the gate thing and they said theyre not letting anyone in until around 6:30. So we're just trying to kill time. I was getting a little anxious, so we went and got some drinks (Diet pepsi, not drink-drinks, lol, i'm 13!). Oh by the way, it was so gross, while we were getting our drinks under this enormous tent thing, we saw all these people eating these huge nasty ribs! i was soooo grossed out, it made me so glad i'm a vegetarian! lol!
So blah blah blah, finally its 6:30 and we go line up at the gates. Have you guys ever noticed all the weird people who come to fairs? Haha i know thats kinda mean but like as we were standing in line we kept seeing all these really weird people walk by, and me and my mom would just kinda look at eachother, trying not to say anything, lol! And the people behind us, they totally were hillbillies! and the daughter was soooooooooo incredibly whiny (sp?)!! I swear I'm so surprised her mom didnt slap her cuz i was ready to! She was driving me CRAZY! lol! im sorry! And the people in front of us, i guess they were nice but the one daughter who was like 7 LOVED Brittany Spears! Ewww! And her mom said she took her to a concert of Brittany's recently and was so disgusted (sp?) and told her she'd never ever see her again! lol! it made me sooooo glad that Carrie was my idol! Haha, i always am! And i assured her that Carrie's concert was not going to be that way at all! But yeah we saw some really weird people there, and im not even gonna go into describing them! It just made me mad cuz i didnt want them around
MY Carrie! lol!
It seemed like we were in line FOREVER! and finally at about 7:10 they started letting people in. We went immediatly to our seats and sat down. NOSE BLEED!!!!!!!! hahaha! We kinda decided we were gonna go at the last minutes because things have been so crazy! So yeah, I really wish I would have gotten Jeff's ticket! lol! I mean these seats weren't awful. They were dead-center, but pretty high up. poop. lol! The only thing that I really cared about was that she wouldnt be able to see my signs (Sorry Michelle
).
At 8, Phil Vassar came out and yeah he was cool. Me and my mom call him Jumpy cuz he kept jumping on and off his piano. lol! Pretty much the whole time he was performing, I just kept staring and that big blue sparkly bus to the left of the stage! lol! Grr it seemed like he was up there forever! and then he finally finished and there was a little inter-mission thing while they were getting everything ready for Carrie!!!!!
I could tell Carrie was coming soon cuz they started making it dark again and the audience was getting loud, so I called my best friend, Lisa (LisaLuvsCarrie!!!) who lives in Virginia to listen to the concert on the phone! (She did the same for me at the VA beach concert in May). So then the band members came out and started playing Y&B!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then CARRIE CAME OUT!!!!!!!!!!! EEE!!!!!! yay!!!!!!! she looked GORGEOUS!
So anyways, I'm not gonna go into huge detail like last time, if you remember, my review went on FOREVER! lol!
She really didnt talk to the audience as much this time. And I mean that was fine. Maybe because we didnt have a power outage this time! lol!
Since we didnt know where exactly she would be signing autographs, i mean the place was HUGE,
ENORMOUS, we had to leave pretty early, about there were 4 songs to go (I think it was IJCLAL that she was doing). I was kinda bummed we had to miss a little bit of Carrie but it was fine.
We asked everyone (staff) we could possibly find to see if they knew where she would be signing (or if she would be). NO ONE had a clue! lol! great! So we asked her merchandise people and they said it would be at the merchandise stand and to line up by the stairs (which are inside the building thing)!!! Yay! And we could see like 2 people in line already and I didnt want to be that far up in line! lol! I had to have
some people in front of me! or else i would of had like a seizer (sp?). lol! So anyways, we got to go stand up on the balcony for JTTW!!! That was awesome! And then "Some Hearts" started! woohoo! So we went and got in line then, and we were still very far up, just not 2nd which was great!
There was a bunch of girls my age that were in front of me in line, which was cool, cuz it wasnt some old people
lol! They asked to my signs and my picture which was taken at the Fowlerville concert I went to, that was what i wanted her to sign since my tour book was already signed! lol! And lady behind me was like "Oh my gosh, she's sooooooo pretty!!! I want to look like that!" and then I was like "Me too!" and her little daughter was like "Yeah we all do!" and so anyways we talked to them for a while. i guess i made it obvious cuz she was like "Are you nervous?" and i was like "YEAH!" and she was like "Yeah i can definately tell!" lol! and so yeah her and my mom talked a lot and my mom told her how we went to Checotah and then the lady's daughter was like "Mom, can we go to Checotah!?!?!?!" and she was like "No, you have school tomarrow." hahaha!
Ok we were waiting FOREVER for Carrie to come out! lol! ohhh and by the way, the door she was coming out of was right directly under me!! Cuz we were on the stairs! lol! so i kept looking down to see if she was coming, but this sign was kinda in the way. lol! oh and the girls in front of me were totally cuz they were all trying to see the door, it was kinda crazy!! lol! it reminded me of home! hahaha!
and then finally, oh my gosh I heard cheering so i look down and here comes Carrie!!!!!!! Ahhh!!! I felt my entire body go numb! And then the line started moving! And we were super close up, maybe like the 7th group cuz there were like families, i dont really know, but yeah. I was soooooo scared, cuz it was like on the steps, that i was going to miss a step and fall all the way down, right in front of Carrie! lol! but thank god I didnt! Oh my gosh I was sooooo nervous!!!!! and totally shaking! I was soooooo much more nervous than I was for Fowlerville! I dont even know why! All I could do was stare at her
(She was a lot more energetic and friendly this time, because in Fowlerville, i could tell she was sooooooo tired, and we were pretty far back in the line. She was still so sweet, but i didnt really talk to her)
The line was moving QUICK! lol! I was getting closer and closer and closer!!!
omg! and then before i knew it i was next!!!!!!! OMG!!! there was that one girl in front of me and i was like PLEEASE dont go! hahaha! and then it was MY turn!!!!! and i froze!!!!!! My hands and everything were totally shaking! I was trying to say something, but nothing came out! and ok i'll just write the whole conversation!
Carrie:
Hi!
Me:
H-Hi C-Carrie hands Carrie the picture
Carrie:
looks at the pic
Me:
C-Car
Carrie:
GREAT picture!
Me: (in awe)
Thank you!
Carrie:
starts signing
Me:
Ca-Carrie we went to Checotah!
Carrie:
looks up and smiles really big WHY?!?!?!?!
(we both kinda laugh)
Me:
Just to see it, I love you sooooooo much!
Carrie:
Aww,thank you! hands the signed pic back
My mom:
leaned towards Carrie so I couldn't hear her (I was kinda scared!lol! Carrie, you have really been life-changing for her! (it's true!)
Carrie:
Awwww!!! looks at me and smiles Thank you soooo much! Reaches out and shakes my hand, and kinda nods at me!!!!!
And by then security was really trying to make us leave! lol! but OMG at this point, i am COMPLETELY in awe! I can't move or speak, I just start crying! hard! lol!
and by the way, I'm not completely sure that in the conversation, thats exactly what i said. Thats what I was trying to say, but i dont know if it all came out right! I just hope i made sense! I guess she must have understood cuz she responded!
OMG it was alll sooooo overwhelming!! As we were walking out, and maybe you guys already caught it, I realized, I completely forgot to give her the gift!!!!!!!! OMG im like soooo dumb! I had it the whole time i was meeting her! you can see it in the picture! lol! and of course there was no way security was gonna let us back in! lol! So I'm just gonna send it to her. It's no big deal at all. I just cant believe i was so dumb! But I mean it was sooooooooooo overwhelming and it all happned soooo fast! hahaha!
OMG the whole night was soooooooooooo
!!!!!!!! It was by far, the best night of my life!!!!!! I will never ever ever ever forget it!!!!! I feel so incredibly blessed to have been able to talk to my idol!!!!! She was soooooo beautiful, and amazing, and sooooo sweet! She really is an angel!!! meeting Carrie made my life!!!!!!
Carrie Underwood concert!!!
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