Last Thursday my husband and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary by going to see The Killers in concert at the UCF Arena. He is a huge Killers fan, I like them a lot but am not quite as familiar with their songs as he is.
We had never been to the UCF Arena before, even though we live pretty close. We paid $10 to park in a garage and walked about a block to the Arena entrance. The Arena was nice, we decided we need to go to concerts there more often from now on.
People-watching was awesome. We saw drunk college guys double-fisting beers, skinny college chicks who couldn't have weighed 90 pounds, lots of tattoos and lots of cool Killers t-shirts. (Also a lot of "Victims" shirts, which is The Killers' fan club.) We also saw a lot of cougars, who were utterly true to their stereotype, wearing tight jeans with high heeled strappy sandals and following around the college boys.
Our seats were amazingly close to the stage. I bought tickets in the center of the fourth row of the first balcony, which I was afraid would be too far back, but I knew we didn't want to be on the General Admission floor. It turned out that the first balcony is only about 5 feet off the ground, it's basically just seats at the back of the GA floor, which wasn't very big. We had a great view of the stage.
There's really something magical about the atmosphere at a concert, and this particular concert was spectacular. The whole audience was on its feet dancing and singing along for the entire 90 minutes. The look on my husband's face as he sang his favorite songs and danced (danced? he never dances!) was absolutely joyful, and made me so happy. It was a wonderful and perfect way to celebrate our anniversary.
Too bad that we are obviously quite old and congealed, because we were both sore the next day from dancing. How pitiful! We clearly need to do this way more often.
Now if only Lil Wayne, or John Mayer, or the Foo Fighters, or Pink would come to the UCF Arena...
