Jimmy Eat World.

There is so much to say about last night. It was like a dream come true. I literally thought I died and went to heaven. The whole day I repeated, "I can't believe it." The entire night, you can even ask Nicole.
Like, I have no idea where to start. I guess when I first got to Royal Oak.
We got there about 3:00, and from there we walked around and tried to keep busy and distracted, so that it would not seem like a long time to wait. We chilled at Barnes and Noble for an hour, and went to a shop to buy some waters. When it was about 4:30, we headed back to the theater to wait back in line, so we could get a good spot of course. As we were walking back, Nicole wanted to go see what was down the side street. We walked a ways, and then I saw him, Jim, the lead singer from Jimmy Eat World. My mind froze for a second, and I didn't know what to think.
"Nicole! That's Jim!!!"
"Who?"
"The lead singer of Jimmy!!!"
We walked a little faster towards the small group of people, but by the time he saw that more people were flocking his way, he turned and headed back to his bus. I thought I was going to pass out. I wish I had been two seconds faster and been able to get a picture.
From then on, we stood in line, outside the theater. We were taking some random pictures, and when it was soon time to head inside, the dude told us to put our camera in our car. Which was gay because everyone else had cameras, as long as they had the flash off. I could have had so many more pictures! UGH.
But that's besides the point.
I mean, I stood 8th in line, and then when they let all of us VIP people in, most of them went to buy shirts and sit before it was all sold out, and then headed to the concert hall. Nicole and I were smart and said, "fuck clothes," and ran inside and got front and center.

FRONT AND CENTER.
DO YOU SEE THAT UN-ZOOMED PHOTO?
I about passed out, peed my pants, had a heart attack, and cried all at the same time, but I did refrain from doing all those things, so don't you guys worry.
The rest of the concert was just fantastic. I was able to see the set-list duct taped to the floor right by Jim's mic, and so I knew all the songs that were going to play, and so that was pretty cool (I however didn't get it at the end of the show because the guys tossed it out too far). I screamed my heart out to every last song; they played all my favorite songs, and I even made it onto their website from the picture that Zach, the drummer, took to show how awesome the show was. So yes, that aspect was awesome. Also, the photographer for the website and promotional things took a fan picture with everyone, and then took a picture of just Nicole and I, picked out from the entire crowd. You may think that was a tad creeper, but he did ask us first if he could do that haha.
At one point during the set, Jim was rocking out ( I think to the song "Work") and he just shook his head, and his sweat landed on my forehead. Sure I was grossed out for .5 seconds, but then I was like, dude, that's what I get for being in the front, and its awesome! Nasty of me, I know.
I also got smashed into the bar countless times. You know, the bar that keeps people from rushing the stage, yeah, it kind of hurt, but once again, worth it.
Near the end of the show, when they started their encore, it became so rowdy, but of course, a good kind of rowdy. Never before have I seen so many crowd surfers in my life! It was epic. It was during the encore that my head smashed the bar, but no bruise, so all is well with that. At least there were body-gaurd-like-dudes that point over our heads whenever there was a surfer coming our way. I almost got lost amongst feet twice, but also, I made it back up because the two guys behind us, and Nicole both were able to pull me back up. Then Tom, the guitarist, gave everyone in the front row a slide-five. AWESOME. Then that's when Zach came out and took the picture.

(Bottom Right in the red shirt. Nicole is to the right of me, my left)

After they ended the show with my favorite song of all time, "Sweetness", we mulled around for a bit, hoping to obtain some guitar picks or drumsticks, but that didn't end up happening. So we left the stage area, and went out to the entrance area to see what there was left of merchandise. As we walked out there, we saw that the hot drummer from We Were Promised Jetpacks was signing stuff and selling CDs. Nicole and I immediately ran to him and got our picture taken and he signed our tickets. Boy, he was adorable! He was that nerdy kind of cute, and just awwwwws. And also, his Scottish accent was to die for. Seriously. After all that chaos with Darren, we went and stood in the other line to buy something. We figured we would just buy something for the heck of it, even if it didn't fit, or it was random. We were about last in line, and when we got up there, all there was left was crappy stuff in size large. But luckily for me, the last hoodie hanging up was a guys size medium, and the guy took it down right from the display and sold it to me. Come to find out, the sweatshirt fit perfectly fine.

Then, on the car ride home, I got a Twitter update saying that Zach had uploaded the picture from the end of the show. So once we got back to Nicole's house, we were able to relive the experience for two more hours, which is what we did.
It seriously was the best experience of my life you guys.
I'm afraid to go to any other concerts after this because now they will all be super mediocre to this one. Hmm. As long as I keep going to Jimmy ones though ;).
Just kidding, I will try and expand my experiences.