Rascal Flatts

This weekend Nathan and I had the opportunity to go up to Dallas and see Rascal Flatts in concert at Pizza Hut Park. We didn't even know about the concert until Friday morning when Nathan got an email on post about free tickets to the concert. He decided that he should jump on the opportunity to get the tickets even though we were already planning on going to Fredericksburg, TX to check out the town and pick peaches. Luckily when he got down to the ticket place they still had plenty of tickets. After he picked up the tickets he called and told me about it, and asked if I wanted to go. Of course, I wanted to go. I like Rascal Flatts' music and Maria and Skyler told me that they put on a really good show in concert. Since Dallas is over 3 hours away we decided that we would need to spend the night up there since the concert wouldn't be over until after 2300. We had a little trouble finding a hotel since it was so last minute but we were finally able to book a room at the Holiday Inn in Frisco which is the town in which the concert was held. Saturday morning we went running and then headed up to Dallas. We tried to check into our hotel early 2:40 but they said we had to wait until after 3pm. We headed off to the Stonebriar Mall to do some window shopping and just check out the mall. This mall is huge and then there is like a huge shopping area that surrounds it with tons of strip mall type shops. Nathan and I mainly just walked around the mall and then hit up the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. It was about 1800 when we headed back to our hotel to check in. Unfortunately, when we got there they told us that they had over booked the hotel and we would have to stay somewhere else on them. Wait. Did I say unfortunately? I meant fortunately their mistake meant we got free tickets to the concert and a free hotel room. SWEET! Okay, so the hotel we had to stay at was a little bit further away and not as nice but hey it was FREE. After checking in to our hotel we headed off to the concert. It was an outside concert in a soccer stadium, which sounds nice until you factor in how stinking hot it was and how humid it was. Nathan and I were pretty sweaty but once the sun went down and we got some Gatorade at the concession stand we were pretty comfortable. Chris Young, Kellie Pickler, and John Rich opened for Rascal Flatts, but their performances didn't hold a candle to Rascal Flatts. I really enjoyed the entire show and loved that I knew all the songs Rascal Flatts sang except for one new single they haven't released yet. I think next time I go to a concert I might bring some earplugs though because our ears were hurting by the end of the four hour concert. All in all for my first big concert experience I was really happy. It is so nice to be able to do something so spontaneous with Nathan and It's even nicer to be able to do it essentially for free.