When Garth Brooks announced he was coming to Fayetteville for his stadium tour, we all knew we wanted to go. That’s the problem when all 4 adults in our family want to do something: what do we do with Remi? Well, we decided to take her! We played LOTS of Garth leading up to the show so she would know it….and she turned out to LOVE a few songs.
We arrived separately. Mom and Remi came together (they had been to Hot Spre Ty and I camped), and Nancy brought us the truck to the campsite since ours died. We they were in different spots. Mom and Remi got right inme nice people also let mom and Remi cut in line getting in the stadium….we weren’t so lucky.
It took a little over an hour to inch forward toward the gate.
We had two opening acts: Mitch Rossell and then Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots. Mitch was good- Remi was VERY into his QR code when he would talk about it. She made us take a picture of it. ha!
Bobby Bones was hilarious. Remi thought his song “Hobby Lobby Bobby” was great
Then Garth came out. Thankfully, his second song was Remi’s fave: Rodeo. She lit up and sang along. I LOVED watching her experience it. She even told me “I had a dream about this, mom!” It was so sweet.
There were 80,000 people, so it was a little loud. And it was late. And the lights were bright. It was a lot of input.
Remi wanted us to hold her through the show- which was fine. Toward the end she did lay her head down on me but she never slept. And MAN did she perk up when we called the hogs. It was so cute.
We did decide to leave at the end of his encore to beat the crowd. We knew getting out was going to be a nightmare between getting out of the stadium to out of our parking lot. Thankfully, we beat the crowd and got out easily. Remi was tired, but once we got back, we had a snack and got ready for bed. It was after midnight when she finally got to sleep (and she miraculously slept until 8:15 the next morning in the camper).
It was an EPIC fr forgets the fun of that experience. And I think I’ve got myself a concert buddy for sure.
