What a day for Anna & I:

Mileyworld.com membership bought in September               $29.95
Tickets bought back then when Anna wanted to go             $ZERO (Ha, fat chance!)
2 tickets purchased last saturday because of the $29.95    $156.90   
A glittery hoodie and tall boots from wal-mart                      $27.83
Parking at Allstate Arena                                                      $15.00
Glow in the dark thingy                                                         $10.00
Concert program                                                                    $20.00
A nice family who stopped us in the hall and gave us           $ZERO
    two blue wristbands (THANK YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE!)
The last 2 pictures of the night                                              PRICELESS!!


A long story!  Anna has loved watching Hannah Montana and both she and Brady know all of the songs on her first CD.  Back in the summer she said she would like to see her in concert.  I thought, ok, I'll check it out...probably like getting tickets to "My Little Pony" or "Dora" live.  No hurry.  WRONG!  Sold Out.  Ok, she's 6, she won't care if she goes or not.  She really didn't say too much about it, besides asking a couple of times.

Then I heard that if you are a member of her fan club, you could get tickets.  So, I signed up for mileyworld.com, thinking it was a free trial.  I got an email that said I was being charged, so I emailed back right away and said "cancel my membership".  No response.  I called.  I emailed.  No response whatsoever.  None.
In the meantime I tried to get tickets via mileyworld.com, and there were none, of course.  I noticed that it gave me this code to use while trying, but didn't think much of it.

So, I called Discover after many attempts to talk to a human being at mileyworld.com (I still think that none exist).  I asked them to remove the charge because I cancelled right away and nobody will respond.  About 6 weeks went by, and I got a response from Discover saying the charge was valid.  Oh well. 

Then, last Friday, I got an email from mileyworld.com saying that they were going to open up more seats the next day to mileyworld.com members who tried to get tickets before, had a code, but didn't get any.  That was me!  So I got on right away at noon, and searched.  I found single tickets.  So, I though I had two held, and made my purchase, but one didn't work.  So I searched again.  Sold out!  This was about 12:05 and they went on sale at noon!  I searched a few more times and another came up.  Too bad it was accross the stadium from the first one.  Oh, well, I could always sell them for $400, right?

I didn't tell Anna.  I wanted to surprise her.  I thought, it will be all moms, right?  Chances are out of the 4 people I may be sitting next to, someone would understand and be cool with Anna sitting on my lap. 

So, yesterday morning started like this:

The new sparkly hoodie and tall boots from walmart.  I asked Anna who might dress like that.



She guessed it right away.  She didn't even know the concert was that day.  It sunk in fast!

h ANNA h.


We went early for the mileyworld.com "party" meaning "stand out in the cold and follow lines around and wait with 2000 moms and 4000 girlies for 6 prizes.  Oh, they were supposed to have the pink miley bus, but it broke down on Lake Shore Drive!


More of our friends....                                               Warming up in the car and celebrating our tix!


We finally went inside and found our first "seat".  It was just to the side of the stage, in the second row of the balcony.  An awesome seat!  It turned out that many other moms had single seats and were looking around for people to trade so they could sit close to each other.  Here is Anna right by our seats.  I wanted to go check our other one, which was straight across the way but in the lower section.  Anna thought our seat was "the best."  So I traded with another mom for a seat that was 3 away from ours and we stayed.


The Jonas Brothers opened.  Cute boys!  They were very good!


First, she was Hannah Montana.  The Jonas Brothers came out for one more in the middle.  Then, she was Miley Cyrus.  A great show with lots of action.  She changed outfits about every 2 songs.  It's unbelievable that she is only 15.  Here are a few concert pics:






We were wandering after the show and a dad with his wife and 2 kids stopped us in the hallway.  "Are you two sticking around?", he asked.  I said, yeah, we're just checking it out.  He gave us 2 blue wristbands.  "Put these on and go to section 109.  Have fun."  So, we said "THANKS", not knowing yet for what, and headed for section 109.  We waited for about 5 minutes and they walked us across the street into another building.  Here is what happened:



What a first concert for Anna!  It was an awesome experience!

The only concert that topped it.....