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It's been a long two months, waiting for this. LOL. Probably the only time I'll be ecstatic for New Year's Eve. **usually couldn't care less about it.** Just one year changing to another year, which really feels the same as the old one at first.

We got to the place before the doors opened and hung around waiting in the cold while a long line stretched ahead of us and after us. I was glad I decided at the last minute to bring my scarf. I definitely needed it.

The front rows were reserved, but we managed to get in not too far behind. We were in the middle of a row, but later the people on the end left and I was able to move down to the end and repeatedly sneak into the aisle to take pictures. XD

The opening acts, Noteworthy and the Osmond 2nd Generation, were awesome. X3 There was an intermission between each act, and some people were starting to get edgy. LOL, during the Osmond segment (which was mostly them singing very nostalgic oldies songs, from The Beatles to The Beach Boys to The Jackson 5, and more), at the end they did a New Year's song and people were randomly throwing beach balls overhead. XD A couple of times the beach balls went on stage and the guys threw them back.

The crowd went wild with applause and interaction for everyone, but we were especially enthusiastic for Rockapella. ♥

LOL, I've seen so many concert clips on YouTube by now that it almost felt like I'd seen them in concert before. But of course, being right there is a million times more awesome than just watching on YouTube!

They opened with a song I wasn't too familiar with, so I'm not sure what the name was. XD; (It may have been Tonight?) Then they did The Hope We Hold, which was just amazing live! *___* And I probably won't be able to list everything in the order they did it, and some songs I won't be able to name at all. XD; But they did Little Mary Snowflake, and Winter Wonderland, and Rudolph, and Merry Christmas Darling, and Love and the Lights, and Angels We Have Heard On High (which especially was much better in person than just on YouTube). They did The Chipmunk Christmas Song, and added other verses and just acted silly. LOL. They randomly called out things they wanted. XD At one point somebody said "An Olsen twin" and later Scott said, "Osmond Brothers DVDs!" They also did The Dreidel Song and Happy Kwanzaa, which were fun. X3 And they did Please Come Home for Christmas, complete with Scott's silly monologue in the middle. XD Everyone cracked up when he solemnly mentioned how terrible Labor Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Columbus Day had been.

For the non-Christmas/holiday ones other than the first one (it was a mixed song concert), they did Got to Get You Into My Life, a Mills Brothers song, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Ain't Too Proud to Beg/Treat Her Like a Lady (the one where they got someone out of the audience. I was trying to get chosen by sitting on the end, but they were looking for a college student XD), and probably something else that I can edit in later. XD

One of the things I was looking forward to the most was pointing to them on the stage and exclaiming, "Do it, Rockapella!" ♥ Which everyone did for the encore, and we got Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

They weren't selling all of their albums, for some unknown reason, but I picked up Smilin' and the guys autographed it. X3 I got to talk to Scott for a few minutes and tell him I'd been a fan since I was four years old. And I got a couple of pictures with them! ^^ Hopefully they'll turn out. They're all amazing, down-to-earth people. It was like hanging out with old friends. X3

As awesome as everything was, and as much as I consider the new guys as much a part of Rockapella as any of the others, it did also make me miss the other guys I grew up with. XD So ... I think it's time for some episode-watching again. **and listens to the recording of their performance of Zombie Jamboree from Carmen.** So. Much. Love.