I was dying to go to the Madonna "Sweet and Sticky" tour, but all the good tickets started at $350.00 for a seat. When I went to see about buying a ticket in Denver the seats were far away.I had friends going to the concert in Denver so I thought I would see about getting a ticket and going with them but I didn't want to spend that kind of money for a seat so far away. I read that Madonna admitted to selling her front row seats to ticket brokers, so I figured the only way to get a good seat would be to win a contest. A friend of mine sent me an invitation to enter two contests. One to win tickets to Madonna and another for a week long vacation at an Eco spa. Guess which contest I wanted to win more? I also entered a contest that was on Facebook to win tickets to Madonna.
Several weeks later, I landed from a flight from London and turned on my cell phone. I had a message from a friend who works in management for another airline. She announced she had two FREE FRONT ROW SEATS to Madonna in Boston for the next day! It couldn't have been a better time. I had to have 2 days off after the London trip for legal rest. I called her back and told her I would definitely be there. My airline had a flight in the morning nonstop to Boston. Unfortunately when we called to look for a hotel (she was flying in from D.C.) most of the hotels were sold out or the cheapest price was $400-$600 a night. It was the baseball play-offs and the Red Sox were in the play off. My friend told me she would investigate and call me in the morning to tell me the hotel she got.
The next morning I set my alarm for pm instead of am and woke up at 7am. The flight to Boston left at 8:10am! I rushed out the door in 10 minutes. Fortunately I live about 20 minutes away, but I was stressed! I got on the employee bus to the airport and ran into a flight attendant I had flown with before. She asked me what I was doing so I explained how I overslept and how I only had 20 minutes to get to the flight and that the cheapest hotel was $400.00 a night. She calmly replied that I should not worry. I was going to make the flight and a crew member would offer for me to stay in their hotel room. I thanked her and thought, yeah, sure a complete stranger is going to offer to share their hotel room with my friend and me. I ran to the head of security and rushed through barely making the flight. I had to sit on the flight attendant jumpseat since the flight was completely full. One of the crew members was going to the hotel and the rest of the crew was continuing on to D.C. My friend in the meantime called me to tell me she made a reservation at a Courtyard by Marriott for $400.00.
I waited for the hotel van to pick me up. My friend was landing an hour after I got in. The flight attendant on my flight caught her hotel van to the hotel. The hotel had their phone number on the van so I called them to see if they might have a room. They were sold out. As I was standing there a crew of three flight attendants walked up to wait for the hotel bus. Since the other flight attendant had just left I went over to tell them they just missed the bus. I explained I was a flight attendant too, and why I was in town. I told them how expensive the hotels were because of the play offs, and, the only female flight attendant standing there turned to me and told me not to spend the money. She would get a room with 2 queen beds and my friend and I could stay in her room. I was shocked! I didn't even know her and she generously offered to share her room with us. She was so nice she even lent me her camera to take pictures since I didn't have one. I took a video of her opening act and one whole song before the battery went dead.
The concert was AMAZING! We were front row on the stage right side. We had some great gay boys standing near us so when Madonna came to our part of the stage she flirted with them. There was even once near the end of the concert, where one of the guys put his hand out and Madonna held it. I was in HEAVEN!!! It took me at least a week to come down from the high. I couldn't believe that I was able to go see Madonna front row for free!!!!
I asked for free front row seats to Madonna ( I was hoping to win them) and got it! WOW, things were working for me that week. I was also able to trade two of my domestic trips for a Beijing trip. It had been almost a year since I was able to get a trip to Beijing. Next time I run into the flight attendant I talked to on the bus. I will have to ask her if she is psychic. Everything came true as she predicted.
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