Holy SHEET How could something so great go downhill so fast?
You don't know who that is do you? TERRY FRIGGIN BALSAMO!!!!! I met the lead guitarist from friggin EVANESCENCE on saturday!!! We were standing on top of the hill where all of the rockstars either leave or enter the stage area, and there was Terry Balsamo!! He walked by the first time and we screamed to him. We were so excited when he looked our way and smiled a little. He walked off and onto his bus leaving us to wonder if we'd ever see Amy Lee, the singer of Ev, at all that night. Todd, the replacement for our beloved red headed bassist, came off the bus and wendy wanted to get his autograph or at least a hug lol. We stopped todd and asked if he would give us his autograph. He was a dick, I'll tell you that much. He made this asshole gesture and said he didn't have a pen. Wendy went to go find one and then asked if maybe she could get a hug. Todd was on the other side of a fence and said he'd make his way around to her, still being an asshole. An hour later there was still no Todd. He never showed up. Terry did though heehee... He came walking past us and we screamed to him. He was so incredibly nice. He had to climb the stairs to sign our tickets because we weren't allowed past the the grass. Wendy got a hug and sig and I got a sig and a hello lol. He was awesome though. All in all the concert was amazing even though we didn't get to meet one of the people we wanted to, Amy Lee. We did however meet the rabbit from Korn. He was hilarious and a really nice guy. But this isn't where the story ends. That would be too easy.
The concert didn't get over until near midnight, no big deal. Traffic was horrible due to construction, but it was no biggie. Then wendy's phone rang and the person on the end of the phone said that her mom got to meet Amy Lee. ... ... What? Somehow, Malinda's mom met Amy Lee and all of the band members from Ev and Korn. Jonathan Davis and all the guys. That was a terrible blow to an evening of Awesomeness. Because you know that the reason Amy never went by us was because she was busy talking to Malinda's mom therefore we never got the chance. That was the first straw. But wait there's more!
7:30 am Saturday morning, I got up and traveled with Jon, my older brother, and wendy to Andover, Ohio. I was told it was only 3 hours when I agreed and then I was told it was 6 hours after we got on the road. It was 8 hours there. What was only supposed to be an hour's stay in Andover turned into 4 making our trip home completely dark. I had a lot of trouble with Jon and trying to round him up so we could finally leave and then he decides that he's just going to ride home with his friend's parents making our 4 our wait pointless. Whatever, that was fine. I was fine for a while.
We stopped at every gas station in Ohio that we could because wendy was winning big bucks on a scratch off game. It was enough to pay for gas to get home. Half way through our trip home, I started getting tired. Music blaring into what would be the last two hours of our trip, we heard a loud BAM! Our front passenger tire BLEW. Sitting on the side of I-70 at 3:30 in the morning, I was about to crack. It had been close to 24 hrs since we had slept and here I was changing a tire with a jack I had never seen before. My dad was testy because I woke him up and wasn't helping very much, just adding hostility. A car pulled up behind us and wendy grabbed the tire iron for dear life. Suddenly there was a bright spotlight on us and I was afraid that we were going to get in trouble for something. Why, I'm not sure. The police officer walked over and helped us get our tire changed. Because without him, we'd still be sitting on I-70 with a banged up car due to my inability to use a jack lol I have a new respect for cops, especially in Ohio.
After getting back on the road we knew we could only get up to 50mph on a donut and had close to 100 miles left to go. 4 hours later we were home and didn't remember most of the trip. It's definitely a story for the ages in my book at least. God, I had never been so happy to see my bed... at 7 o'clock in the morning.