Our Weekend - The One With the Taylor Swift Concert & Bowling

Happy Monday, y’all!  We had a great weekend and it was just what we needed to get our batteries recharged for the new week!

Friday afternoon, B and I dropped the kids at my parents’ house for the night and he and I headed to Atlanta for the Taylor Swift concert!!  She has been on my concert bucket list for the last few years ever since her second to last album came out, and when the Reputation album came out I knew for sure that I had to see her for this tour. 

B is my #ConcertBuddyForLife so he was a good sport and came along for the ride.  But don’t feel sorry for him… he was secretly excited.  And he loved it!  Lol. 

We arrived at Mercedes Benz Stadium in ATL with plenty of time before the opening acts started, so we walked around for a bit (and stopped for a photo opp in the big Falcons helmet!) and then went to find our seats.  Well, after walking around our level and never seeing our section, we finally stopped and asked somebody where our section was, and they pointed to the Harrah’s VIP lounge… WHAT?!  B bought the tickets from StubHub and nowhere on the ticket information did it say that ours were in the VIP lounge.  We knew that they were on the club level, but we didn’t know that they came with all of the VIP perks – our own private lounge, restaurant, full-size bar, bathrooms, and balcony overlooking the show!!!!  #Ballers

Since we had all of these things right at our fingertips, we didn’t even have to go in search of food because it was right there!  We both opted for good ol’ hot dogs (even thought there was a full-service restaurant right there) and craft beers from the bar.  After we had eaten we headed down to our seats!  Not too shabby!!!!

Charli XCX opened first followed by Camila Cabello and I thought they both did great jobs even though I’m not huge fans of theirs.  After they finished their sets, B and I headed back up to the lounge to grab a giant pretzel and two more beers and to take one last bathroom break before Taylor came out.

We made it back to our seats just in time for the show to start.  Upon arriving at the stadium people were handing out plastic bracelets to every single person in the audience and I was really excited to see what they would do.  I had assumed that they would light up for the show, but I had no clue just how flipping awesome they would be.  B and I both pulled the tabs out of our bracelets just minutes before the show started to activate them, but neither of them lit up or did anything.  We were both puzzled and wondering why they weren’t lighting up (I was worried they were broken) and then just when Taylor came out on the stage, every single bracelet in the entire stadium lit up in sync! 

For the rest of the show the bracelets danced in time to the music and they changed to colors of red, pink, orange, green, blue, and white.  They each had sensors to know which section of the stadium you were in, so they knew when to light up as which color.  This allowed some of the sections to be lit up while others weren’t and it also allowed for different sections to be lit up as different colors.  During some parts of the show, the bracelets would light up in a ripple all around the stadium, and it was so neat to watch.  It was pretty much the coolest thing ever!  I think I enjoyed that just as much as I did the actual concert!  Haha.  All of the little colored dots in the audience in my pictures below are people’s bracelets.  And if you want to see videos of it, just head over to my Instagram bio and click on the “Live Music” story highlight.  I took about 20 videos because it was just so dang spectacular!!

Anyway, Taylor put on a phenomenal show.  I mean, I had HIGH expectations, and I was still blown away!  There was fire, tons of fireworks, a light-up stage, huge movie screens, massive snakes that came up out of the floor, and she flew across the audience in a cage to a stage at the other end of the venue.  Then she made her way to another stage on the other side of the venue, and finally flew across the audience in another cage back to the main stage. 

She played a great mix of her new and old songs.  We got to hear most of the songs on the Reputation album, a few from her 1989 album, and several from her older albums as well.   She played her guitar for a couple of the songs and she played her piano for a couple of them as well.  Then it was high energy for the remainder of the show.  I cannot express how awesome this concert was, y’all!!  If she’s coming to a city near you, I HIGHLY recommend that you see her!  It was definitely in my Top 5 of my favorite concerts I’ve ever been to.  And I have been to a LOT of concerts, y’all.

B and I ended up getting home a little before 1 AM so we ended up sleeping until 9:30 the next morning.  Completely unheard of!!  We had a lazy breakfast at home and then once we were ready, we headed to my parents’ house to pick up the babies.  The rest of the afternoon was spent at home.  Our Georgia season tickets arrived in the mail (YAAAASSSS!!!!) and I finally managed to get my purse cleaned out.  I got so much stuff out of there it actually feels a great deal lighter on my shoulder!  #Winning

We headed to 5:30 mass and afterward we saw my friend Jeannine and her sweet boys.  One of them happened to be twinning with Olivia so we snapped a picture!  I also noticed that our family of four had inadvertently color coordinated, so naturally I had to snap a picture of that, too!  :o)

We spent the rest of the evening at my parents’ house having Sunday dinner on a Saturday.  My brother, sis-in-law, and nephew come to visit frequently now, but since they always have to leave Sunday afternoon to get back home, they always miss Sunday dinner, so my Momma decided to do it on Saturday this week so they could partake.  After dinner, my brother, Zach, got out his plane flight simulator and he let the kids take turns playing.  They thought it was a hoot every time they crashed.  Haha.

Sunday, my MIL didn’t cook Sunday lunch and my Momma didn’t cook Sunday dinner, so we had the entire day with absolutely not one thing on the agenda.  We had a pretty lazy morning around the house and then we headed for pizza for lunch.  After lunch we had zero errands to run since I can now run them all during the week, so we took the kids bowling!  They started out using the little prop to roll the ball down the alley, but eventually they graduated to rolling the ball down all on their own.  Everybody beat me because a) I suck at bowling, and b) the kids cheated and used bumpers.  Haha.  

The rest of the evening was spent eating a light dinner at home, getting the kids to bed early, and then binge-watching more Breaking Bad.  #CantStopWontStop

Y’all have a great week!

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