Beda April 19: The Adventure

Saturday I went and bought my ticket to see Green Day. It was a lot harder then it should have been. Here is why.
The Show is going to be at DTE Energy Music Theater, I have only been there once and when I went I got my ticket online, Laurie has been to several shows there and I know that the last time we went she had to go to the box office to buy her ticket. This time we all have gotten smart and realized that if you buy at the box office you don’t have to pay all those stupid fees that make your ticket twice as expensive. So Saturday we all got to Laurie’s house and moved to leave when Laurie asked me if I knew how to get there. Normally I am really good about making sure I know exactly where we are going and having extra maps and whatnot but this time I assumed that since Laurie had done this before she would know exactly what to do and where to go, this obviously was not the case. So we got Jessica’s GPS and guessed that all we would have to do is show up at the venue and there would be some sort of markers, so we got in the car and headed off, right after getting on the freeway, Jessica’s GPS started flashing that it was low on battery even though it was plugged in, then it died. Luckily we found out which exit we needed before that happened but still not the best. We drove for maybe half an hour and found our exit then followed the extremely convenient signs. We got to the gate and no one was around so we drove in a bit farther and still nothing, we drove all around that thing and there was just no one there at all no security or anything. I kind of wish that I weren’t so averse to getting arrested because we could have probably gone wandering all over the inside of that place and no one would have noticed but I didn’t want to take the chance. Anyway there was no one there so we figured we’d call the box office so Laurie called information and got the number but it was the number of the Palace which is not where we wanted to call, so Jessica used the handy dandy internet on her phone and looked it up and we found out that yes we actually did want to talk to the Palace. Laurie called them and they told us that the DTE box office didn’t open until mid may and that if we wanted to get tickets we had to go to the Palace box office because they were connected in some way (they didn’t say in some way I just can’t remember the way they were connected.) So we had to back track to the Palace, we knew we had passed it on our way out to DTE so we got back on the freeway and drove until we saw signs. There were two exits it said we could take, the first one looked very not promising so we passed it and went to the second one, as we were getting off there was another sign saying the Palace was to the right so we went right and there was no sign of anything and no more signs, we drove a bit farther and saw the Palace but it was on a totally different road and we couldn’t figure out how to get there, then we saw a sign saying Palace Ramp, we didn’t know what exactly that meant but we figured that if it got us at least pointed in the right direction we would take it. The signs took us in circles for a bit before finally we passed a thing saying it was the Palace Ramp and it was very closed, we passed it and then found out that once we had gone that far our only choices were to either get on I75 north or south, we chose north because there was the other entrance we skipped over. We drove to that and just off the freeway was a tiny sign pointing to a tiny street telling us to follow it, so we did. It stretched on and on and on and we were pretty sure that we had done something wrong but couldn’t really go back the way we had come so we kept driving. It took forever but finally we saw the Palace in front of us with actual driveways leading into it. The first one we got to was blocked, as was the second, and the third, and the fourth, finally we got to an entrance that was blocked. I can’t begin to tell you how excited we were to finally be there, not just because we were going to get our tickets after all but because it was a sense of accomplishment. We pulled in and there was a guard who told us exactly where we needed to go and we walked in and the people behind the counter we super nice and it was awesome. Then when we were about to leave Laurie asked a different guard guy if we could use the bathroom and instead of just answering her he started talking into his radio asking for a bathroom escort and then had to wait for the okay then he had to walk us to the bathroom which was a little weird but we got to see some of the inner workings of the Palace which was cool, although with all the walking through doors that had big signs that had giant warnings never to open them, and the being escorted, and the radios I was convinced that he wasn’t taking us to the bathroom at all but to some secret lab or something like that. (He did just take us to the bathroom and back) Then we left and had no issues whatsoever getting home. I’m really excited that I got my ticket and I also like that I got a story out of trying to buy it.

I’m not sure that the story makes sense, I can’t be bothered to go back and read it and I’ve been writing on and off all day and you know how sometimes you leave writing and come back to it and you have a totally different style then when you were writing before (is that just me) anyway that might have happened I don’t know. While we were off having this adventure I also managed to catch Jessi’s cold and my head is in a total fog and words aren’t making a whole lot of sense to me so I hope that everything made sense. I’m going to go to sleep now.