High (Maroon) 5!

Ahhh, the first official blog. While I have a couple of other events to blog about, being the excitement that occurred today I'll start here and work my way backwards in the next few posts. Today, I saw without a shadow of a doubt one of the most beautiful creatures on Gods earth; Adam Levine.

First, let me start off by saying that this adventure started off at 12am when me and Jenny hopped the Babylon line from Long Island to Penn Station and headed towards the NBC buildings to sit for countless hours waiting to see Maroon 5. Upon arriving at 2am after walking around the city for a bit we found that there was already a decent line formed of people waiting it out (sleeping bags and all). Luckily for us, I had sent in an email to the Today Show and gotten us "Fan Passes" so we got on a line that only had maybe 6 people infront of us. The first hour sitting there was rough, I'm not going to lie to you. But as time passed Jenny and myself found ways to amuse ourselves.. most derived from complete delirium. By 4 o'clock both lines were getting ridiculously long and me and Jenny acknowledge to eachother that we knew we'd done good by getting there more than way too early on zero sleep.

Now let me tell you, this whole "Fan Pass" thing was bogus to me.. and I had one. Our entire line (including people that showed up at 5:30am when people started getting let into the pen at 6am) got let in before all those poor souls on the other line who had sat out there even before we had gotten there. Then there was the "V.I.P" line who got let in before us.. which is a whole other story, but I digress. Once we finally were led in me and Jenny had a pretty decent view of the stage. And to my surprise it wasn't a claustrophobic nightmare. Everyone was very respectful of eachothers "personal space". Had a prime view of the band when they came out and got to sound checking. Two "This Love"'s and "Sunday Morning"'s later we were looking to get out of the pen due to a what we're going to refer to as "wardrobe malfunction". A nice man who worked there let us out and after asking him to go to the bathroom we were headed to the downstairs of the NBC building. Totally oblivious to my surroundings the man at the bottom of the stairs was frantic and was telling me to keep walking. I'm thinking "rude" but I ask him where the bathroom is. All of a sudden I look to the right and realize the reason he has his boxers in a twist is because maybe 10 feet to our right Maroon 5 is standing there taking press pictures. And man did they look beautiful. After what we affectionately refer to as the "most awesome use of a bathroom trip ever" we felt fulfilled and headed back to Penn. It was a lot of excitement for us before 8 o'clock in the morning.

I'll leave you with a couple of pictures of the man of the hour himself and the object of my affection; Adam Levine:

This one was a test on a effect with my new camera:

Have a Maroon 5 story of your own? Ever had a surprise close encounter with a celebrity that got you as excited as my lame self is on this lovely Friday evening? Share it in the comments, I'm all ears (Well, eyes.. this is the internet)!

Peace&Love,

Gina