Our Adventurous U2 concert!

To give you a bit of background, G and myself are quite particular and organised we always double check things and try do as much preparation for things so that they can run smoothly, etc.

So, keeping that in mind...

As you know Friday night was the U2 concert night, G's sister picks us up at 17h30 to drop us off at the station so that we could catch the train to Cape Town.

We arrive at the station with lot's of time to spare but unfortunately so had about 1000 other people, so the train arrived and everyone starts pushing and shoving, we eventually get to the doors of the train and THEY CLOSE!! The train was so full that everyone looked like sardines standing in a can!

We now have to wait another 30 minutes for the next train!  Thankfully we were being well looked after because we got on the next train with ease and we had room to breath, which was great!

We arrive at Cape Town station and start walking to the gates to get out but before we can leave the station they are asking to look at our tickets (the train ride was free for all ticket holders) I take the envelope with our tickets in, out of the bag and open it and.....

IT'S EMPTY!!!!

Okay, so now let me take you back about 3 day's!  When we bought the tickets we bought 5, 2 for us, 2 for G's brother and GF and one for a friend.  I needed to give the 3 tickets to G's sister to hand over to the other parties.  So, I take the envelope and take our tickets out give them to G and ask him to put them into his drawer for safe keeping!  I then put the 3 tickets in a normal envelope and pass them on, that evening I give the 'ticket envelope' back to G and tell him to put our tickets in them BUT it was quite late when I gave it to him so he was tired and not really thinking about what I was saying!

Okay back to the actual day, while I am at work I send G a message saying that he must put the tickets in the bag so that we don't forget them, G then takes the envelope and put's it in the bag, thinking that the tickets are in the envelope (which is so strange because usually he would check!)

Back to the present moment...

We are standing on the station needing to show the woman our tickets so that we can get through the gate and out of the station and we don't have them, so I show her the ticket envelope which say's computicket and she asks how many tickets, thankfully I had left the slip in the envelope so G say's to her 5 tickets but my brother has all of them showing her the slip for the amount of tickets that we bought, once again God had His hand over us because it worked!

We get through and start thinking how we are going to get our tickets!  G had parked our car at the Waterfront that morning so we considered driving home and picking them up but we would have had a parking problem on our hands when we got back because we wouldn't have found one!

We phoned G's sister and asked if she would be able to pick the tickets up and drop them off with us at the Waterfront!  Once again God was watching over us because when G's sister picked us up we gave her a spare set of our house key's just in case our bag got stolen! So she was able to get in the house, pick up the tickets and drop them off with us!

We now had to walk from Cape Town station to the waterfront, then back to the stadium. (A total of approx 6.2 km's!)

At the end of the day we made it with lot's of time to spare before U2 came on but we were tired and both of our feet were sore until U2 came on then all was forgotten and 2 and half hours flew by like 5 minutes!

U2 was BRILLIANT!  It was a wonderful experience and I must say that the organisers at the stadium did a fantastic job!  We didn't have to wait to get into the stadium considering there were 72000 people at the concert I think that's an achievement on it's own!

The bathrooms at the stadium were well planned and clean. I didn't have to wait even a second to go to the bathroom there were loads of loo's and they had separate entrances to go in and to leave so no congestion at the doors either.  So after our adventerous start it turned out to be a lovely evening.

When the concert finished we waited at the Waterfront for about 20 minutes, got in our car and drove home with no traffic conjested.  We were so thankful that we left our car there, it only took us 30 minutes to get home, it took some people 2 hours!

Needless to say we got home at 01h20, showered, went to lie on the bed before making some coffee and the next thing we knew it was 10h00 and my alarm was going off!

Till next time!
L