Chicago- B1A4

~This is  gonna be one hella long post~

So this past weekend (10/3-10/6) I went to Chicago with one of my best friends and her boyfriend to go see B1A4 (which is her favorite kpop group of all time). It ended up being a 19+ hour drive to get there, so we ended up arriving around 8 in the morning on Saturday. We then proceeded to sleep until 7 at night before getting up to go wander around the city. We were going to go up in the Willis tower, but it closed an hour earlier than it said it closed online ;-; though I did take a picture of the building because it was super tall lol Also, it was like 40-60 degrees the whole time, and while I complained a lot at first, I really miss it now that I'm back in Florida...

It also ended up being the same night at the Chicago Fire Festival! So we got to experience that while we were searching for the Bean (I don't know if that's its real name or not) to take pictures with. We also got stuck on a bridge because there were so many people trying to see the parts of the festival in the river, so we ended up climbing over the guard rail and jumping into the streets to get over the bridge (we got yelled at by firemen)

We eventually found the bean after wandering the city for god knows how long. We even ended up going underground for a bit to get back across the city because there were too many people on the bridges. Guppy (my friend) complained the whole time we were underground because she said it smelled and there were homeless people sleeping everywhere, but she was okay with it once we passed a realllly attractive man.

That morning when we woke up, we had been planning to go back into the city, but we woke up too late. We found out later that half the places we walked around that night, B1A4 had gone to in the morning, which made Guppy really sad. Though I did have deep dish pizza for the first time ever and it was so freaking amazing! So that day, we ended up just driving around and exploring the area our hotel was in and going to an outlet mall, before finally arriving at the venue to go see B1A4.

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~The Concert~

This was probably the best concert I have ever been to because of a number of reasons:

1. They are one of my top ten favorite bands
2. It was very well organized (unlike the Block B concert)
3. Everyone was super nice
4. We were the luckiest people on the face of the planet (I'll explain later)
5. The concert lasted a really long time

So we get in the door and we show the people out tickets (we had bought balcony because it was too expensive to buy anything else). When the lady checked our tickets she told us to go see another lady to get out new tickets and we started to get really confused. The other lady then hands us two new tickets and congratulates us because we were now going to sit on floor level. I was super shocked and really excited, but Guppy was really upset because she's short and was afraid that she wasn't going to be able to see them now. We then wait in line to get into the concert area and we are directed right down in front; like five rows away from the pit/stage. Both of us start freaking out because we are so close, and we didn't even pay for it...but the story gets even better~

(our view from the new seats)

A couple of minutes before the concert, a lady comes around asking if we had the tickets for hi-touch (getting to high five all the members) and we told her we didn't know, since we had just bee moved there, so she checks our tickets and sadly tells us that we don't have the right ones. We told her it was okay and that we were just happy enough to be where we were. So the concert starts and both of us are dancing and singing along when I feel a tug at my shirt. The lady is back and she is smiling with around ten wrist bands left in her hand. She tells  us that they ended up having extra and that since we were so kind she was going to let us have them. No lie, the both of us started squealing and jumping for joy. Not only did we get front seats, but we also now got to do the hi-touch event...our luck that night was so amazing.

One of the cutest moments during the concert was when Jinyoung wen to play his guitar so that they could all sing us knocking on heaven's door. Well, his guitar wasn't connecting and he was trying to play it, but we couldn't hear the sound and he played it off really well, but the other members were a little shocked. Baro and CNU ended up getting the crowd to yell and see which side was louder. They also talked to us and ended up just singing random songs to pass the time until the sound was fixed. But that whole time was just super precious.

We weren't allowed to take pictures at the hi-touch, but I remember it all so well (except for my hi-touch with Gongchan. I sadly don't remember that too well). Guppy was in front of me and they were lined up from Baro, then Sanduel, then Gongchan, then Jinyoung, and finally CNU. As they said thank you to me, I told them thank you back and they genuinely smiled back at me (it was pure heaven lol). So Guppy get's to Sandeul and she had planned out what she was going to tell him, but she blanked when she got to him because, in her own words, "he was so beautiful." Guppy ended up just saying what she was thinking and actually told him to his face that he was beautiful and his reaction was the most adorable thing ever! His face lit up and he looked so freaking cute as he thanked her again. Now for my own personal story, the two I remember the most were Jinyoung and CNU. I remember Jinyoung's hi-touch because he is soooo good looking in person and I ended up looking at his arms the whole time. Now CNU I remember because when I said thank you, I also intertwined our fingers together ( I wasn't going to miss the chance).

After the concert I had a personal talk with Guppy and we decided on our favorite things from each member during the night and she got mad when I joked that my favorite thing about Gongchan had been his pants (becuase they were zebra pants and I really want some for myself now). For the other members we decided that it was Sandeul's power vocals, Jinyoung's high notes, Baro's rapping and 4Dness, and CNU's godly hip movements.

As we were about to leave back to our hotel, we found where their van was waiting for them, so we decided to join the group of girls who were already waiting around it. We met some really nice people in that group and we all kept each other warm as we waited for them to come out. 

All in all, it was one of the best nights/trips in my life so far.

Photos from the concert (sorry for the quality of some, but the lights and fog made it hard to see their faces sometimes)

Now for some videos (It would only let me upload these two because of the file sizes, but I will be posting them n my tumblr, so you can see them there)

Anyways, this was seriously one of the best weekends of my life and in other news: I can't wait to go see VIXX next month in NY!!! :D