Dear Sue,
Tonight Grace has tickets and is very excited about going to Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj at the HSBC Arena. The ticket has been lost, stolen, returned, ripped in half- it's been a long and tumultuous lead-up. She's never been to an arena show without an adult - it's a rite of passage! My first was the Beach Boys at the Montreal Forum on a Labor Day weekend a million years ago. My mother had taken me to shows before then, I remember my siblings sleeping on the dark sticky floor of the Forum at an Eagles concert... But I digress.
Grace was going to take the Buffalo subway which stops one block away from us and on event nights goes directly to the HSBC. Then she was going to take it home again. We took it Cirque de Soleil (we'd of paid extra for no clowns show) and a Sabres game this winter. And to a Bisons baseball game when we first moved here. I wasn't anxious those times but perhaps we're naive New Yorkers? Here's a difference between NYC and Buffalo: it turns out that public transport including taxis is considered sketchy.
Does the crowd maraude after a show? Is the train particularly unsafe after a concert? All will be revealed in the fullness of time (or tomorrow's Buffalo News). What has been revealed is that kids are dependent here until they can drive themselves - a whole other topic. One of the things that's been beautiful about Buffalo is that it turned back the clock on Grace's fast track to adulthood - the downside is I'll be in the car at midnight.
Love, Erin
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