I won't bore you with all the details of what it took to get tickets to the show in Vancouver, but I will say it was only at the last minute that all of Callie, Kerry and Melissa had tickets for the Taylor Swift show i which was the last stop for the Eras tour. Callie had a ticket for the past year so she was eagerly creating friendship bracelets from day one. She had actually started even before she had a ticket when Taylor was only doing US shows. She made her first batch for the Seattle show and went down with Kerry to listen to the concert outside. Her friendship bracelet skill evolved immensely during that time. She started with simple beads with words and quickly evolved to woven ones and multi later bead strings. She added clasps and all of them could be removed even when they were tied. I contributed in a small way by making some wooden rectangles with various Taylor Swift sayings on them on the CNC. I had grander plans of being able to do things in brass but I couldn't get the settings right and I'm not sure my big CNC was the best tool for the job. I think she made north of 200.
The tickets that Callie and Kerry had were VIP seats and they would be going with Callie's aunt and her daughter. The seats were good and definitely VIP priced but the only real difference was a Taylor Swift gift box that showed up a couple of weeks before the show. The family had an opening event where they all opened the boxes together. It was mostly paper based things plus a pin. Callie was a bit disappointed it wasn't Vancouver themed which she understands some other cities were. It was still nice and will be a good keepsake.
I think if I had been around during the Beatles it would be have been fun to be able to say I experienced some of that so I decided I wasn't going to miss that opportunity with Taylor Swift since I think it's had the same sort of hype. I went to work on the Friday of the first concert in Vancouver and then wandered around downtown. The atmosphere reminded me of the Olympics with everyone there for a common event though the weather wasn't as nice so it wasn't quite the same. Vancouver had put large lit letters at several Instagram worthy locations. It was a great opportunity to show case the city and the concert brought in over $150m in economic activity.
There had bee talk about certain areas being inaccessible except for ticket holders but it wasn't much different from a normal event or concert at BC Place. You couldn't go right up to the gates but you could hang out in front of the stadium. In other cities, there had ben large groups of people congregating during the concert. It wasn't huge in Vancouver on the first night I think because of the rain and the fact that the city had warned people away. I think it would have been a lot bigger in the summer when it was warm but there were still thousands of people by the last night.
Melissa arrived on the Friday night and Kerry, Callie, Melissa and her niece wandered around the city on the Saturday. On the Sunday, my brother-in-law had rented a limo for everyone that took them to the event and picked them up afterwards. It was more convenient then we were expecting as they got home pretty quickly after the concert was over. I think the only disappointment for Kerry was that there wasn't a surprise gust. We figure it's because she was filming all three days and they wanted consistency. Still an amazing event, 706 days after the whole thing was first announced.
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