Saturday, May 19, 2018

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE!!!

Can I get a "bye bye bye" or a "cry me a river" or how about "it's gonna be ME."  My sweet friend Dawn is all about concerts these days, and she always has the presale code, and always manages to get the BEST seats!  She is amazing and I so appreciate her efforts in getting groups of us girls together for fun times! 
The day after Mother's Day 4 of us made the trek to Orlando to see Justin Timberlake!!!  Now, I had a fairly sheltered childhood (not a bad thing), but I wasn't really allowed to listen to much trendy music, so I kinda skipped over New Kids on the Block and some other boy bands, until N'Sync.  They were by far my favorite boy band, and I can still recite the lyrics to all of their songs.  So seeing Justin Timberlake in person was kind of a Bucket List experience for me! 
Dawn was awesome and drove myself, Fun and Sam down.  She also knows the best places to park, and the parking lot of Fairwinds Credit Union did not disappoint!  It was only $10, and only two blocks from the Amway Center.  Perfection!  We left Jax at about 4pm, arrived just after 6pm, and had time to eat dinner at the Magic Grill before heading to our seats.  The concert started at 730pm, though JT didn't come on stage until 9!  I did feel a bit old haha while sitting and waiting for him, when others stood up and danced and I was still sitting.  The curse of being a tired mom haha is when you stop moving, you tend to try and fall asleep lol.  I did not fall asleep but we did yawn some..UNTIL the man of the hour came on stage.  We stood for most of the two hour concert, and it was awesome!  He sang a great mix of old songs and new, and his stage was pretty cool.  It took up the entire floor, and he used all of it.  Amway is a great venue as well, which helped.  Our seats were 16 rows up from the floor, and we got to see him pretty close up. He danced, sang (his voice sounded like the radio), and put on a great show.  He took selfies with fans who were on the floor, and even gave a shout out to an 88 year old grandma whose kids gave her tickets for Easter.  So cute!  His last song was "Can't Stop the Feeling" which was one of "the" songs during summer last year.  The kids recognized it when I played it for them, which was fun!
After the concert we hauled butt back to the car, and hopped right on I-4 thanks to Dawn's plan!  We were home a bit after 1am, and back into mom mode when I walked in the door!  Good times, thanks ladies!!!
There were several other friends from Jax that went to the concert as well- Nathalie and her hubby, as well as Vera and her hubby and boys! We saw them before the show and took a few pics!






 There were large moving panels that were used extensively during the concert.  It was nice to have a close up view when he was on the other side of the stage!





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