Last night, with the Drum filled with 10,000 screaming pre-teens, Mylie Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) along with opening act Aly & AJ, raked in the dough with a glitzy show filled with lots of lighting effects and costume changes. The really great thing about it is the fact I didn't have to sit through any of it.
The Wife snagged tickets the day they went on sale, riding the computer through the initial online surge of site traffic and server lock-up to land three tickets when the system began releasing lots selected but unpurchased by would-be buyers after a 10-minute decision window expired. Score! And at face value, too. Within 30 minutes the show was officially sold out, and tickets appearing on Ebay were going for $600 (at this point I questioned if the girls really needed to go to the concert, seeing as how they didn't know we even had the tickets, but the Wife disabused me of that notion).
So yesterday I played the role of chauffeur, driving the Wife, Monkey Girl and Fairy Girl to Austin and dropping them off in front of the Drum amidst a congested knot of traffic. I then soldiered on with the Bug to Half Price Books for half an our or so before continuing on to Highland Park Mall. Bug wanted pizza, so we each had a slice of food court pizza (not that great) and Bug got two cookies with his kids meal, which he liked. We then wandered around the mall for a couple of hours. The Lammes Candies shop there had closed, apparently, as did the Disney Store. We found a B. Dalton and went in. I ended up buying an "America's Conquest of Space" calendar at 75 percent off for my office at the university, and Bug made me read him Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? about 500 times, along with a few Thomas the Tank Engine books for good measure. Then the concert was over and we made our way back to pick up the women folk amidst an even worse snarl of traffic.
The official verdict was that the concert was great. Monkey Girl complained that Aly & AJ were too loud, but broke down in tears of joy when Mylie Cyrus came on. The novelty wore off for Fairy Girl about halfway through, but she perked back up for the finale and encore. Both are now proudly wearing their concert tee shirt swag today in school. The Wife reports all the kids in the audience screamed wildly throughout the show, falling silent only when Cyrus began singing "I Wanna Rock & Roll All Night." At that point the parents present began cheering, because there was finally a song they recognized being performed. I wouldn't know, because I was reading about Brown Bear for the 237th time at that point.
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