Well hello there, real world!!!
I have spent a day being a noob, a three year old, and the happiest person on the planet. Would you like to hear about it? OF COURSE YOU WOULD!!!
If you didn't already know, I'm in New York City for the first time in my life with my friends Madeleine and Jennie, as well as Jennie's parents. Let me start this off by saying that I am VERY grateful for Jennie's parents being here [and getting us free hotel and basically free plane] because they got us through the subway system, got us into Brooklyn, and basically were our tour guides for the day. And when we weren't with them, Jenna was. Jenna is my dance teacher Jeri's daughter and she goes to SAB [the School of American Ballet] and so she showed us around Lincoln Center and the area surrounding it. But really, let's start at the very beginning of the day.
First of all, we didn't even get in the city and go to bed until midnight-1am. We got to sleep and woke up at 8am to go downstairs for a free breakfast that included Belgian waffles, cereal, scrambled eggs, potato wedges...and let's just say I'm a breakfast fanatic so I was in heaven. After that we came upstairs and got ready for our very long day. We headed out to scope the town out for tomorrow's excursions. What we found was an ice skating rink in Bryant Park [we plan on doing that tomorrow], a fundraiser for citibank, and tons of cute little kiosks. The fundraiser was to benefit Toys for Tots, and we basically had a rock star photo shoot that donated at least $100 from citibank, and all we had to do was pose for pictures! I felt awesome about that, not gonna lie.
After heading away from Bryant Park, we traveled to the Times Square area which began my experience as a fangirl. We took tons of pictures, went inside the M&M store, saw a bunch of I <3 NY shirts [which we'll be buying tomorrow] and planned to see the Hershey's store and the huge Toys R Us tomorrow. We ended up taking my first few subway visits, the first was over to the Lincoln Center. Well, it was like 20+ blocks away from the Lincoln Center, but we got to walk to Central Park and see the front of the Museum of Natural History, so my sore feet can deal with that, alright?! We met up with Jenna who showed us her SAB dorms and the SAB building and then we headed to the Apple store, Urban Outfitters, pinkberry, american apparel, Trader Joe's, the North Face store, and this awesome store that Mukluks come from [awesome shoes that dancers wear over pointe shoes or when warming up their feet. I wanted some!!] It was really fun to walk around and see the city from the perspective of someone who lives there...the Trader Joe's was a hidden treasure. It was sooo cheap!
I was very good about not spending much money at all...until we got to our main event. We took the subway over to Brooklyn and headed to the Williamsburg Music Hall where the NEW YORK CITY WIZARD ROCK FEST was happening!!! Let me preface this by saying that I don't care what anyone thinks. I love the Harry Potter books, love that the movies have helped to make this such a huge franchise, and love the fandom that has come out of this entire experience. Oh, and I love that I get to be a part of it.
Anyway, we entered the building and headed downstairs to check our coats and see the vendors. We obviously saw Ministry of Magic, Remus Lupins, Whomping Willows, Justin Finch Fletchley, and the all the others. We were complete fangirls and got a ton of pictures with everyone. We bought merchandise [mine included a poster, a t shirt, a pre-ordered t shirt, and some other things] and even had some legit conversations with Alex Carpenter, Luke Conard, and Matt Maggiacomo. These guys are really down to earth and encouraging. I felt like I could talk to them easily although I still felt like a huge fangirl. We had a few of them help film some intros for our vlog collab channel. Luke remembered making a gift video for me this summer, Matt remembered taking pictures with us this summer, and Lauren Fairweather did because of a gift video as well. Even Jason Munday remembered us from Infinitus this summer. Basically, we were on top of the world. But wait a minute, we hadn't even listened/watched anyone play yet!!!
We headed back upstairs where we opened our night of music with Justin Finch Fletchley and the Sugar Quills. He was AMAZING to wrock out to. Actually, everyone we saw was. But he was really cool to see, and he really worked with the audience well. He ended up having memebers of Diagon Alley come out and help with his last few songs, which was really fun. After taking a break during some of Tonks and the Aurors and Swish & Flick, we headed back out to the main floor to see The Whomping Willows who was wonderful!! He's really good live, and I knew more of his songs than I thought I would which made me feel super special. He was accompanied by some of his friends at the end of his set which was amazing because as soon as Aaron Nordyke got on the drums, everyone started jumping up and down like crazy people and finished out his set with a bang! The Remus Lupins followed Matt with one of the most fun sets I've ever seen. He also sang one non-wrock song to please the Suzanne Collins fans. Let's just say Madeleine almost died with happiness right then and there. His set, his voice, how awesome he was in real life....it just astounded me. He also sang 'Dumbledore' which I had requested via twitter the day before. It rocked my world. I can't express how cool of a person Alex Carpenter is. I appreciate him as a person, an artist, and a nerd. ANYWAYSSSSS...after Alex got off the stage, Brian from Draco and the Malfoys came out and did a fun set. I wasn't really well-informed on their music, but it's always fun to hear a Slytherin's side of things [Swish & Flick was also Slytherin]. He cracked us up and made the set fun.
Then we got to the real main event. Ministry of fucking Magic!!!!! Luke, Jason, Jeremy, Aaron, and Ryan were all ready to end our night with the best experience OF MY LIFE. They played my favorite songs [although I love almost every single song of theirs, so it'd be hard not to play my favorites] and we jumped, jammed, videoed, pictured, and screamed for them. I really have never had so much fun in my entire life, singing along with my favorite songs, seeing them in real life, and being with two of the most awesome girls! They were also throwing out some merch to the crowd and a MoM megaphone soared through the air and landed in my hand like in the movies. I screamed through it [with a hoarse, terrible voice] throughout the rest of their songs, and definitely made the girl in front of me want to cut off her ears or something. The boys [and like all the other wrockers] ended the show with the biggest bang anyone could ever imagine. They said goodnight and left, but I wasn't ready to let them go. I started chanting 'Encore! Encore! Encore!' and guess who peeked their heads out, heard our chanting, and came back out for another amazing song?! That's right, I'm a champ.
After the show, I got my megaphone signed by a bunch of wrockers, talked with Alex and Luke one more time [we got a hug from Alex] and headed out. We headed back to the hotel and we're sitting here now, soaking in the night of awesome that we just experienced.
Basically, my life is complete right now. I'm having the best experiences of my life, and I'm so lucky to be here at all. I'm so excited that I'm getting really into something because I haven't really had one thing that I've wanted to be more interested in more than anything. This is it. This is what I love. And I love it more than anyone knows. :)
Current song: 'Dumbledore'- Alex Carpenter, parody of 'Dynamite' by Tao Cruz
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