Benson Boone Concert

September 24, Wednesday

I'm so grateful I got to go to the Benson Boone concert with Jonny! Jonny and I left at about 5:30 PM. I had Michael take our picture and we got on the road.

It took us about an hour to get to Texas Roadhouse. There were many restaurants near the concert, and this is the one Jonny wanted. I love it, too. 

By the time we got to the parking lot at Desert Diamond Arena, it was about 7:30 PM, so that worked out perfectly. It's really cool to the north of that arena. They have a lot of shops and restaurants and it kind of looks like something you would see in Las Vegas. That's what Jonny said and I agree with him. 

We went in and the entrance to our section 102 had a big long line coming out of it. It turns out that's where the general admission people were going in also. I asked one of the security guys if we could just go in section 103 and walk over and he said you could try that and it worked great. Unfortunately, we got a little confused and accidentally sat in section 101. We probably should've just gone in between section 103 and 102 because that's where our seats were but anyway, we were really impressed with the seats and how close we were. Then these two ladies who were dressed up like Benson Boone with mustaches and everything came and said that we were in their seats. I showed them my ticket and they said you're in section 102 and this is 101 and they pointed to section 102 which was even closer to the stage. So, I apologized and got out of there and walked over to our correct seats and we were shocked because our actual seats were even better! We were so close to the stage and we were looking right at where Benson Boone was probably going to stand for most of the concert and he did. That was awesome! Our seats were in section 102, row D, 15 and 16. 

The opening act was Brooke Combe and she was great. 

Waiting for Benson Boone!

Once the opening act was done, we waited there for quite a while before Benson Boone came out. The show was absolutely amazing! He is such a fantastic performer. He did so many cool things that I don't know where to start, but I took a lot of videos and pictures. 

At one point, he reappeared on stage by standing on a giant chandelier that hung from the ceiling, then it followed a track halfway around the arena and came almost right above us. It was so cool! 

He did a lot of flips and he played the piano a lot and he played all of the favorites. 

He said his goodbyes to everybody and left and a lot of people left the arena, but the rest of us cheered and he came back out and did one more song, Cry.

It ended a few minutes after 11 PM. By the time we got to the car and got out of the traffic and drove all the way home, it was 12:30 AM. It was a wonderful night and I'm so glad I was able to go with Jonny!