Saturday night Christina, Erin, Jenna, and I all met at my dads for a girls night out. Erin offered to drive, which I am so thankful for, because I do not know my way around the strip to well. So thanks Erin! We went to dinner first at Chilli’s. (We were going to spend as much time out and away from the kids as possible) We headed down to Mandalay Bay and took forever to find parking. We went to Valet and they said guest only could park there. So we ended up at the Luxor parking. We got in and were giving the ushers in gold jackets (jacket color will come into play later) our tickets when this guy in a blue WVU jacket asked if we wanted better seats. First we said sure, but then he said they were front row. So were like ya right, what’s the catch? No catch. So the guy gives us the tickets but then asks for the tickets we had to see if he could upgrade someone elses. We were all a little hesitant to give the tickets but we handed them over. So we go into the arena and the ushers in yellow jackets direct us to down the stairs to the floor… ok…. and then down the aisle towards the front…. what!… then a guy in yellow sits us down on like the 5th row and says he needs to give us wrist bands! What 5th row! This is awesome right?!

So the guy gives us the wrist bands and then directs us to go up to the guy in the RED jacket! This guy sat us down on the first 4 seats of the front row! WHAT!!! These are our seat? He then tells us that people in the first two rows can do whatever they want. Are you crazy?! Usually the scantily dressed cute girls get the front row. How did 4 wholesome married girls, 3 with kids get the front row you ask… I’ll tell you in a bit. The opening act was Chuck Wicks. Soooo Hot! My favorite picture is of Jenna’s hand with her wedding ring reaching for Chuck…

We had no idea who he was until someone said he sings “Cinderella.” We couldn’t stop staring at him though 🙂 (By the way, these pictures are not zoomed in… we were just that close!)

Next up was Rodney Atkins. He wasn’t too fond of Jenna. She kept trying to get him to shake her hand and he would just look at her and walk by. It was pretty funny. We finally gave up on Rodney and tried to get his Violinist who was also extremely good looking.

Gotta love the tight jeans!

Finally it was time for Brad Paisley. Erin and I had left to go buy some shirts and came back and there were so many people up front. I guess they told anyone with a wrist band can now come up front. But it was ok, because Jenna and Christina and saved us spots right by the stage. Before the concert started the security guard had asked Jenna to take pictures of Brad with his phone. We had to get his phone discretely though so he wouldn’t get in trouble. Well I went to get his phone from him and he freaked out because his boss was standing right there. Then “luckily” some guy at the top in the back decided to strip so all the attention was on him. I got the phone from the security guard and worked my way back to the girls. Might I just say that Brad Paisley is awesome on the guitar. Most singers will play some but not the technical parts. He would! It was so much fun. Don’t mind the camera guy.. we were buds.

Christina’s proud photographer moments…

I’ve never had to turn around at a concert to see the person! Ok so remember the guy in the Blue WVU jacket that gave us the tickets? So during one of his songs he had a slideshow going behind him. All of a sudden there was a picture of Brad and the guy in the WVU jacket. Erin pointed it out and the girl we made friends with that was sitting behind us was like “That’s the guy!” We told her yes, trying to figure out why she was freaking out. She yelled back “That’s his dad!” WHAT!!! Brad Paisley’s dad gave us front row seats! No wonders… he wanted wholesome girls up front not scandalous ones! Makes sense now. So after the concert was over we saw his dad and went and thanked him. He was such a nice guy. Also, the security guard we took pictures for kept giving us stuff like guitar picks and the song list from Chuck since we took his pictures. Thanks girls for such a fun night!!