Rick Riordan is dead to me

(Certain people will understand the title more than others) 

Rick Riordan is doing this Blood of Olympus tour and one of his shows happened to be near where I live. My friend told me about it a month or so ago and we made plans to get tickets. Well, we got the tickets, but were unable to get the ones that guaranteed seats. So the day finally comes, we're all excited, we get there and theres like 1000 people there. We go and stand in the line of people who have "stand by" tickets. 

And we stand. 

And we wait. For an hour. 

And we watch the people in the "guaranteed seats" line slowly file into the auditorium. We're praying that was get in, we're nervously shaking each other going, "WE MUST GET IN!!!!" 

And FINALLY our line starts slowly filing in. We were fairly close to the front and when we heard them announce that they would take fifty people from our line we were determined that we would be getting in, even if it was only standing room. 

So we walk slowly forward until we're right in front of the doors and the guy in charge (with his fancy microphone and his fancy accent)(I think it was an accent)(it wasn't normal American speaking) cuts us off and says, "Sorry, we are at our full capacity. There are too many bodies in the auditorium already." 

ARE YOU SERIOUS???? WE WAITED A MONTH AND THEN WE WAITED AN HOUR IN LINE SO WE COULD BE TOLD THAT THERE'S TOO MANY "BODIES" IN THERE? 

We were only a bunch of bodies to him. No hearts, souls, or feelings. We were bodies that he could simply shoo away and go home content with himself and check us off his to-do list. 

That could be my pain talking.... 

It worked out though. We went and got ice cream and had a fun time anyways, making fun of that microphone guy who cut us off and spurting out the comment to our imaginary Rick Riordan: So how does it feel to be dead to me?  

Even when something horrible like this happens, you have friends there to laugh with XD. 

This morning I woke up at 5:55 A.M. because the pro-life club at school was going to the LIFEsocal event down by Long Beach. It was a LONG drive, but we got there and it was worth it. 

There were 5,000 kids there, Catholic schools from all over. It was crazy when we got there! We found our seats, eventually, and tried to hear each other over the noise, which was deafening. And then, of course, everyone started screaming even louder when the celebrities came on for the game show at the beginning: David Henrie, a model (I forget her name, I think it was Britney something...), someone I've never heard of and can't remember his name, and of course, a high school senior from our school! Somehow she got picked to compete in it! How cool is that?? 

The speeches were awesome. Immaculee Ilibagiza gave a speech. Her story is amazing! She survived the genocide in her country hiding in a tiny bathroom with seven other people for three months! She's awesome! 

Ta-ta! 

--Abby