"a quick trip cuz of drama"
Friday, December 08, 2006 Filed in: my life
as some of you know,
tomorrow i'm heading to Honolulu for the last stop on
the U2 Vertigo Tour. it's been such a
crazy/weird/dramatic/sad trip and i haven't even left
yet.
first... there were four of us going and it was in April. me and Stacy and two of our friends. then the tour got postponed. so that trip didn't happen. and we waited... and waited... and waited... for months to find out when it would be rescheduled.
then they announced it... Dec. 9th was the rescheduled date. we were very excited about this. until about a month ago when we got an e-mail from our friends saying they weren't going to go. but they didn't mention anything about the tickets at all. so, Stacy called them and found out that they'd already put the tickets on ebay, which we didn't think was very cool. they said that since they'd lost money on their airfare, they needed to make money on the tickets. knowing that Stacy and i couldn't simply go alone without causing a minory controversy (we do work at a church!), they offered to sell the tickets back to us for $50 more than we originally paid for them. (i had originally bought the tickets together and they paid me for them.) we thought that it was a little ridiculous that our friends (who had already bailed on us and put us in a bad situation) would then try to rip us off by selling us the tickets that we already bought back at a higher price. so, we declined and haven't really talked to them since. (the irony in all of this is that i can't imagine that they made any money on the tickets as there are still tickets of similar quality available for the regular price on ticketmaster.)
so now we have two tickets to the U2 concert and nobody to go with us. as we're processing how we should proceed, the next bit of drama hits and we break up. now, on top of mourning the loss of my relationship/friendship/life as i knew it, i've got two U2 tickets and nobody to go with. i wasn't even sure i should go. but, i felt like it would be the perfect chance to get away from the chaos of my life. i felt like i needed this. i've lost my friends. i've lost my girlfriend. this was all i had to look forward too. plus, i felt like if i'd asked Stacy, she would have insisted that i went. so, i was now, more than ever, determined to go.
so, i invited Brett. he couldn't go. i invited Megan. she couldn't go. i invited Joe. he couldn't go. i invited Jody. he couldn't go. i invited Kyle. he couldn't go. i invited Jonas. he couldn't go. i invited Adam. he couldn't go. then there was Kit... Kit said he could go!
so, last weekend, i booked the flights for Kit and i. we were to fly out Saturday morning and fly back on Sunday night on the redeye. but then Kit called me back... he had forgotten about his Monday morning grad school final. ahhhh! fortunately, there was an earlier flight that day and i got us changed over to it.
you'd probably think that's the end of the story... you'd be wrong. last Sunday i start checking into finding a room. remember... we only need one room for one night! the ENTIRE ISLAND IS BOOKED! not one single room. none. apparently, in addition to the thousands coming in for the U2 concert, there's some huge marathon going on too. fortuntately, i have friends who have friends who live in Honolulu.
so, tomorrow morning, Kit and i will depart LAX for Honolulu where we will arrive at 2:00, see U2, spend the night in some strangers' home, sleep in (i hope), get some lunch, and get on a plane at 2:00 on Sunday to come home. 24 hours in paradise. out of control.
i love U2 and i'm very excited for this concert... but holy crap. was this worth it? and i'm still sad that i'm not going with Stacy. this was supposed to be our trip. :-(
pray for us!
trying to make the best of a bad situation...
matt
first... there were four of us going and it was in April. me and Stacy and two of our friends. then the tour got postponed. so that trip didn't happen. and we waited... and waited... and waited... for months to find out when it would be rescheduled.
then they announced it... Dec. 9th was the rescheduled date. we were very excited about this. until about a month ago when we got an e-mail from our friends saying they weren't going to go. but they didn't mention anything about the tickets at all. so, Stacy called them and found out that they'd already put the tickets on ebay, which we didn't think was very cool. they said that since they'd lost money on their airfare, they needed to make money on the tickets. knowing that Stacy and i couldn't simply go alone without causing a minory controversy (we do work at a church!), they offered to sell the tickets back to us for $50 more than we originally paid for them. (i had originally bought the tickets together and they paid me for them.) we thought that it was a little ridiculous that our friends (who had already bailed on us and put us in a bad situation) would then try to rip us off by selling us the tickets that we already bought back at a higher price. so, we declined and haven't really talked to them since. (the irony in all of this is that i can't imagine that they made any money on the tickets as there are still tickets of similar quality available for the regular price on ticketmaster.)
so now we have two tickets to the U2 concert and nobody to go with us. as we're processing how we should proceed, the next bit of drama hits and we break up. now, on top of mourning the loss of my relationship/friendship/life as i knew it, i've got two U2 tickets and nobody to go with. i wasn't even sure i should go. but, i felt like it would be the perfect chance to get away from the chaos of my life. i felt like i needed this. i've lost my friends. i've lost my girlfriend. this was all i had to look forward too. plus, i felt like if i'd asked Stacy, she would have insisted that i went. so, i was now, more than ever, determined to go.
so, i invited Brett. he couldn't go. i invited Megan. she couldn't go. i invited Joe. he couldn't go. i invited Jody. he couldn't go. i invited Kyle. he couldn't go. i invited Jonas. he couldn't go. i invited Adam. he couldn't go. then there was Kit... Kit said he could go!
so, last weekend, i booked the flights for Kit and i. we were to fly out Saturday morning and fly back on Sunday night on the redeye. but then Kit called me back... he had forgotten about his Monday morning grad school final. ahhhh! fortunately, there was an earlier flight that day and i got us changed over to it.
you'd probably think that's the end of the story... you'd be wrong. last Sunday i start checking into finding a room. remember... we only need one room for one night! the ENTIRE ISLAND IS BOOKED! not one single room. none. apparently, in addition to the thousands coming in for the U2 concert, there's some huge marathon going on too. fortuntately, i have friends who have friends who live in Honolulu.
so, tomorrow morning, Kit and i will depart LAX for Honolulu where we will arrive at 2:00, see U2, spend the night in some strangers' home, sleep in (i hope), get some lunch, and get on a plane at 2:00 on Sunday to come home. 24 hours in paradise. out of control.
i love U2 and i'm very excited for this concert... but holy crap. was this worth it? and i'm still sad that i'm not going with Stacy. this was supposed to be our trip. :-(
pray for us!
trying to make the best of a bad situation...
matt