Sorry to check in so late. Since I arrived back home, I've been trying to catch up. Still not fully caught up with everything, but that's what Saturdays are for.
I arrived to London Thursday night, and bought theater tickets on the way to the hotel. The very nice guy who sold us the tickets wanted to interest us in a play on Saturday, but I told him we were already going to the Queen concert.
Him: Oh, with Adam Lambert?
Me: Yes!
Him: I saw him on NYE. He was brilliant!
Woman on cashier next to him: Adam Lambert? I LOOOVE him!
So that was a good start to my London stay.
For the Sunday concert we had 2 (real good!) sitting tickets, but for Saturday we only had one GA ticket. I bought that ticket at face value through Twitter, from a very nice guy from the West Coast - @mynameisericm on Twitter, who couldn't go. It must have been a disappointment for him not to able to go, but he was happy for me, happy that his ticket went to a "first timer", and wasn't fazed even when his money was very late to arrive.
Our other ticket for Saturday was supposed to be sold to us by a high school student – prob 17 or 18 YO, who flew in from the US with her parents, had a spare and promised to reserve it for me. She landed Sat. morning and went from the airport straight to the O2 to line up. I asked her that morning if she's OK with me meeting her on the late afternoon, and she said of course, and gave me her mother's phone number, because hers wasn't working. I don't have a smartphone, so only when I got back to the hotel at 4:40pm I saw that she had DM'd me and said she can only keep the ticket for me till 4:30pm, because they're letting them in at 6. I DM'd back asking her to please keep the ticket, because I'm def gonna be there before 6, and started calling her mother (who was there with her) like crazy. The mother wouldn't pick up the phone, and the daughter answered evasively why it's impossible for her to save me the ticket. In short – it was pretty obvious that she'd already sold it to someone else. We rushed to the O2 but couldn't find anyone else selling a ticket. Luckily my friend isn't a fan, but still, while I went to the concert alone, his night was pretty much ruined, and I was very upset.
That's the end of the negative part of the evening. From now on it's all good: I met an adorable young British woman while in line and we stayed together during the show. We were about 8 rows from the stage and less from the catwalk. I couldn't believe how close we were! I told momtomany on the night after, when we all had that get-together, that when Adam walked the catwalk the first time – prob during AOBTD – the light on him was so bright, I could see his face so clearly, and I saw that his skin is a red-haired person's skin. Not that I hadn't known that before, but seeing it for real, I suddenly realized that he's a real person. Now I feel that everything is changed by that realization, but I really don't know how
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Anyway, seems like Adam was feeling sexy that night right from the get go, and he was shaking that ass from song one.
From where I was standing I couldn't hear the whole crowd, just those around me, but judging from Adam's expressions, it seems like he was getting very good reactions from everybody, all through the night.
I was so overwhelmed, my friend really had a good laugh when he met me outside after the concert was over. I couldn't tell him anything, I just had the stupidest smile on. We saw the line to the tube station and said "hell we're not standing in any kind of line again!", and went to some Mexican restaurant, and that's how we missed the epic BoRhap sing-along!
I remained numb during the next day as well. Numb but in a state of bliss, if you know what I mean.
And meeting the ATop ladies that night made me feel like I was beamed into another dimension. Not only Adam became real, but all of you, my virtual digital sisters…
During the second show I felt Adam's presence even more intensely. Whenever he came closer to my side I felt so ecstatic, it's like I had no choice. And at the end of WWTLF, I didn't know what to do with all the feelings… (I need seoulmate's avalanche-of-feels gif).
My friend tried to take some pics but they didn't turn out well at all. So here's one that demonstrates how close I was the second night:
On the right side you can see my hair, and the blurry sparkles on my shirt are actually stars
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Sorry for loooong post. Now I'm off to see if we have a stream for tonight!