The date is Sunday 27th of September, I celebrated my 16th birthday yesterday by driving down to Allentown, PA which is 3 and a half hours away. I drove down with 6 friends and my dad whom are all FUCKING AMAZING!we arrive at 6:45PM we exit the parking garage, walk across the road and into the Venue. we're walking through the bar and the members of Alesana are all around us, we walk through a door and find out we have to go around to a side door. we walk back out into the rain and enter a sketchy sidedoor that feels like we're walking backstage.upon arriving inside again we buy $15 shirts and put them on over our current shirts. after purchasing tshirts we walk to where the crowd is, we stand for a few seconds taking it all in then we decide to make our move. we plunge our way into the mass and make our way to the front. we ended up getting seperated, one of my friends stayed with me whilst the other 4 stood together.Asking Alexandria was playing when we walked in and I forced my way to the front; i was battling against some chick for a spot at the very front, she's trying to shoulder me out and kicking me in the shins so i gave her a nice shove and off she went. dissapearing into the sea of people for good well little did i know some other asshole would decide to scratch my arm and kick me in the shins. so i hit her in the head with my elbow ONLY AS SELF DEFENSE! well after that whole thing my friend and I were against the barracade and five feet from a speaker that was the size of half a doorway, when Madina Lake appeared! they played for an hour, I made some friends in the moshpit and swapped contact info and screamed the lyrics to every song they played.Nate dove into the crowd a couple of times and of all the places to grab him i had to grab his ass to support him. e came downt to the crowd a couple of times and i bumped nucks with him and tussled his hair. After they left, sadly =[, The Bled came on. the lead singer is one hairy beast. he came down from his perch on the stage and grabbed the back of my neck, got real close to my face and screams some lyrics into the mike.their guitarist came close to where i was standing, close enough that i touched the end of his guitar a couple of times. The Bled ended and Alesana came on!! Dennis, Shawn, Shane, Pat, and Jeremy were all out there rockin the fuck out. Shawn kept looking at me and i was half expecting him to come down and kiss me, it would have been weird if he did. but after they got done playing Shawn came down and handed me his guitar pick Dennis ripped off his shirt and threw it into the crowd where a ton of people ripped it apart like a pack of starving dogs. We regrouped in the center of the floor. we left the venue not being able to hear anything but the ringing in our ears (i still hear it) and we were soaked in sweat. we sweated through two shirts completely. we walked out into the cool rain and returned to the car. we were in the car and driving for about an hour then we stopped at a gas station that was pimped out and amazing. we got donuts and took a bathroom break then piled back into the car. i sat in the middle with one of my friends sleeping on my arm and another resting on my lap, i had my feet kicked up on the armrests in front of me. we were all overtired and the simplest of things made us laugh rediculously so. it's 3:30am sunday morning and we're dropping off friends at their houses, I arrive home at 4am and immediately crash into my bed with my 2 sweaty shirts and jeans.

Causulties of the night:
Nichole got an earring ripped out
Johnna got kicked in the temple and ripped her belly button ring
I got another bruise from the barracade and my shins were bruised
we all have hearing problems and an inability to speak
Kyle and I both gave ourselfs whiplash from headbanging.
Life is good.

I went to a concert 3 and a half hours away on my 16th birthday, What'd YOU do?