Adventure

Last night I went to a Cobra Starship concert with my friend and my mom. Of course the concert was fun- great music, cool venue, making fun of the couple in front of us who seriously needed to get a room- but it was after the concert that the real fun began.

There was no way we couldn't have been tempted to stand by the buses like loyal fans. Our car was parked right next to them. We HAD to go. And we went and got some things signed by a few of the members from the band. Someone was missing though. Where was Gabe?!

How could we leave without getting his signature. We waited and waited as the small crowd thinned out and quickly became almost no crowd at all. Some guy on the bus noticed us and a few other people hanging around and told us that Gabe had gone out. We told him that eventually he'd be back to the bus so we'd wait. To which he replied it could be sometime after 2:00 when all the bars closed. Well, that's when we decided to make the adventure real. I'd already told my friend, Jenna that we shouldn't leave until we saw Gabe and now was our chance to actually do that. We agreed. We would see Gabe that night.

Well even with our vow to see Gabe, sitting around on a sidewalk for two hours isn't our idea of fun. Plus there was this whole issue of us being hungry and needing a restroom. We decided to go to IHOP. Well of course we got lost on the way there and on the way back. But as we pulled in to the now deserted parking lot we were pleased to see that the buses were still there. No sign of Gabe but he had to be near. We saw a group of roadies packing up nearby and asked them if they knew where he was. They didn't. So we moved on to our other plan. Well we didn't have another plan so instead we wrote a note on the back of a receipt and used the seal from our CD cases to stick it to the side of the bus.

Finally we went home. After all our night started at 6:00 and it was 2:00 by then. But we were happy. It was never about meeting Gabe. If we met him then sure we got to brag about it but it wouldn't have added that much to our night. We had fun. It was an adventure. When we got home Jenna and I vowed that it wouldn't be our last adventure either.

Sure adventures like this wont help me get into college or figure out what I want to do with my life. But adventures like this are exactly what I want to fill my senior year of high school with. So here is my request- Give me a challenge and I'll go on an adventure. It can pretty much be anything but in the end I'll decide what I'll actually do. I might not even accomplish the challenge (After all I didn't meet Gabe.) but it will be fun nonetheless.

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