Amy's Blog

I try to take a trip to celebrate my birthday every year as a part of the birthday month celebration. This year, I had been scouting out for things to do that were affordable and that wouldn’t keep me away from work for too long.

Everyone knows that I have many boyfriends, Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, Bill Rancic, etc, etc. Well this time, I was scouting for my British love, Chris Martin. Coldplay didn’t put a Kansas City date on the Mylo Xyloto tour, so I thought about trying to travel to see them on the tour as a part of my birthday month festivities.

They were playing at the United Center in Chicago on August 7th and 8th, and in Minneapolis/St. Paul on August 10th. I thought that driving up to MN would be cheaper than flying into Chicago, especially if I could find someone that wanted to make the trip with me. So, thank goodness for Facebook, I posted, “who wants to go and see Coldplay” and right away I got a response from a friend in Lawrence. She said that she would love to go and I sent her all of the details. No dice she said, as she would be in Chicago on business that entire week.

WHAT??? I was ecstatic! I explained that they would be playing two shows that week and it would be perfect. She responded with an invite for me to share her free hotel room. UMMM…FREE hotel room, downtown Chicago, and my boyfriend Chris Martin??? Does the birthday month schedule GET any better? On top of it all my friend also had another friend that would be meeting us in the city and we just happen to share the same birthday. BONUS!

So, it was settled, I booked my travel and was headed to Chi! The only bad news was that tickets to see my boyfriend were astronomically expensive. I mean, I couldn’t drool over Chris Martin in nosebleeds, right?? I didn’t worry about it, I would figure this out. Where there is a will, there is a way!