Maroon Five

Oh, yeah...that's right...Maroon Five...for FREE!!! Well, kinda FREE!!

While returning a dress to the Gap a few weeks ago I asked a sales person what was all the ruckus?? He looked at me and said...are you kidding...people have been camped out since the early am hours for Maroon Five tickets that the GAP, Dubai Mall, is sponsoring! Well, a few phone calls later, Dana's taxi speeding to the mall, and spending only 125.00 US on Gap merchandise (which is so easy to do) we landed two back-stage passes, VIP treatment, front "row"and a night out as wanna be 16 year olds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The story gets better and better.

So, we get our VIP phone call during the day reminding us on where to be and what time. Jon and Alan come home from work early for us to allow us plenty of time. We got there, got a beer, and went to the tent where we were to wait. About an hour and 1/2 later they took about 50 of us (like a herd of cattle) to the back of the stage. Now mind you, Dana is 38 and I'm 33 (for another 30 days :-) so we are calmly walking not pushing-shoving like all of the groupies...just walking at the tail end of the "herd." We get to the gate where you enter and the security guard puts his hand out and says, THAT'S IT!! Literally, we were the next two to get in. Well, even though we really didn't care too much, we of course, made a HUGE stink!! After a gazillion phone calls & texts by the security guards and Gap associates a Gap Manager came out to speak to us. She felt very badly and said, "Sorry ladies don't know what happened they just said no more in to the guards and the concert is going to start. What can I do to make this up to you?" So, after negotiating, we scored her signed picture from the band and made a quick trip to her car to take whatever GAP loot we wanted. Jon has about seven new caps in various colors, four T-shirts and I got a cute purple tee and cute hat...I was really hoping for a hoodie!!! We will be "walking marketing" for the GAP. Then, we quickly headed back to the concert and entered VIP where the news and media people are and had a really great time. We walked in and the concert started. Maroon Five is REALLY good. The concert was awesome and we were so stinkin close we could see the sweat dripping off of their faces, kinda cool! I didn't realize how popular they are and many songs I knew!! So, thanks to Gap and the band we had a super night out and the weather was perfect!