Girls Concert Trip!

 The week after Carter left Brianne and I left on a girls trip! This trip had been in the making for over a year! Brianne is a HUGE One Direction fan and we bought her concert tickets to see them.... in Arizona! Chan and I both have family there so we figured why not!

 So we hopped on a plane and got a rental car and off we went! But since it's where I grew up I had to take the opportunity to drive her to all the places I lived and show her my schools etc! By the time we got to see the Mesa Temple she was done with driving and wanted to go to the house where we were staying at- Chan's aunt Jill and Uncle Joe's home.

 Brianne is familiar with them because we have boated with their family at Lake Powell and she knows their girls- Ashley and Nicole- really well! So we went to their home and relaxed for a bit and then decided we wanted to see a movie! So we went and saw "If I stay" a great chick flick! :)

 After that we went back to their home and waited for the girls to get home from school. Once they got home we had a great time visiting and had a lovely dinner with all of them that night. The next day we decided to take it easy so we spent a couple hours outside playing in their pool before showering and getting ready for the concert! Chan's cousins daughter was also going so we met up with her (Andrea) her Mom (Tara) her Grandma (Kris) and one of Andrea's friends for dinner before the concert. (pictured above) It was fun to catch up with all of them and to fill up our bellies before heading to the concert!

 We walked from the restaurant to the stadium and it was HUGE!!!!! The closer we got the more amazing it was! I'm not one to be impressed by a stadium but I was blown away by this one! Can't you just SEE the excitement in her face! She was LIT UP!! She had a calendar on her wall of her room counting down the days to this concert! She even saved money to buy merchandise! :)

 This was one of her purchases! But I have to admit when all the people were waving them in time it was pretty cool! 5 seconds of summer was the opening act and they were great and MAN WAS IT LOUD! An arena FULL of girls screaming their guts out! I'm telling you that you can't even imagine what that is like! :)

 When One Direction finally made it out they put on a fantastic show! They sounded exactly like they do on their albums. They did one encore but it was over the top! One funny thing that happened was that Harry Styles asked if it was any one's birthday- and of course several girls began to scream that it was theirs. He pointed out one girl near the stage and asked her name so they could sing her happy birthday. Her name was BRIANNE!!! Isn't that crazy!! The whole stadium sang happy birthday Brianne!! What are the odds of THAT??!!!!

 After the concert she was talking 90 miles an hour as we crawled out of the parking lot, but as soon as we hit the freeway she was OUT!! All that excitement pooped her out! We didn't get back to their home until VERY late! I wanna say it was 1 in the morning!

The next day we slept in! We were both pretty pooped! And our flight didn't leave until 1:30 or so. It was a good thing because Brianne was so sad it was all over! She was dragging that day and kept saying how she didn't have anything else to look forward to now! Good grief!! I kept telling her to focus on the FUN we had and how AWESOME the concert was! Our last stop before hitting the airport was Fuzzy's Taco Shop in Tempe. Another one of Chan's cousins manages them and we thought it would be fun to try out! It was really good! The perfect ending to a super fun trip! I am sure if Brianne had her way we would travel to wherever One Direction is NEXT year too! Hahaha! But seriously we had a blast! I guess you could say I was an honorary "Directioner"!