Last night, I had the experience of a lifetime with my 9 year old daughter and my 12 year old son. You see Hannah Montana kicked off her "Best of Both Worlds" tour in my own very fine city of St. Louis, MO, but tickets were nowhere to be found.

I tried for weeks to acquire the coveted tickets, to no avail. My kids were increasingly disappointed as they heard a few lucky friends ooze with joy as show time was quickly approaching. I was running out of time. At lunch yesterday (day of show) I happened to call a friend to make dinner plans for the weekend and learned that she was one of the lucky one who actually got tickets and was indeed taking her daughter to the concert that night. She had gotten tickets from a ticket broker a few weeks back. She offered to give me the cell phone number of the guy she had dealt with to see if he would help me.

I was not real hopeful, the guy was in New York and I am in St. Louis. When I called, he informed me that they had no more tickets, but to call back later as they were working on getting a few more. I called back and still nothing. I was OBSESSED! I went back on the internet again thinking with just 3 hours till curtain, surely the ticket prices from the brokers who bought in bulk would start to come down. At this point in time, tickets for 3 people were ranging from $750 dollars a piece all the way up to $1,500 dollars! Insanity!

2-hours till show time and still no tickets. Prices remained ridiculous and I stated to resign myself to the fact that the show must go on…with out US! We would have to start trying to get tickets for the next show in another city 4 hours away, when suddenly, my phone rang and it was a New York number. I cut the person off that I was talking to on the other line and tackled the phone like it was my drug supplier calling (I don’t do drugs but thats what I imagined it would feel like…desperation). HE DID IT. HE scored 3 tickets for me just 1.5 hours before the show began. The down side was I didn’t get to sit with my kids but we were in the same row about 100 feet apart. Good enough I thought, it’s a deal.

We raced to the concert venue through rush hour traffic and arrived with just minutes to spare. Ahhh, my obsession paid off, we made it. What a show I was about to see! (and Hannah was great too) I couldn’t keep my eyes off my kids. What a true pleasure it was watching the look on their faces as they sang along with almost every song and got swept up in the excitement all around them. 

There were all kinds of "shows" going on around me. Mothers with their young daughters dressed in long blond wigs like their idol, mimicking the dance moves and waving their glow sticks. And a another very special show that I was lucky to watch. Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannah’s (Miley Cyrus) father was just a section below me. It was something special to see him watch his beloved child perform at her very first world tour. He was beaming- how proud he must be!

I knew how he was feeling. I may not be famous (yet) and I may not have millions (yet) but I know the love I have for my children, how seeing them succeed, is the highest riches you could  ever experience. Just that one simple thing I could do for them to give them a few hours of simple pleasure made it all worth while. I am sure last night is something none of us will forget.

If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend seeing the concert. Miley Cyrus is quite the performer and her opening act the Jonas Brothers were fantastic too. She performs half of the show as her persona "Hannah" and the other half as Miley. There are pyrotechnics, lots of light effects, several costume changes and great music too. Just one word of advice…don’t forget the ear plugs, as I have to say it was probably the loudest concert I have ever attended. 15,000 girls screaming in unison can definitely make the ear drums ache! But other than that, FANTASTIC. I say - Rock on Miley!!!   

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