Yesterday was a day filled with karma, fate, luck, and serendipity! I GOT MY KYLIE MINOGUE TICKETS FOR PERU!
I have been watching faithfully everyday for over a month now for the tickets to go on sale. They had announced every other South American country except Peru on Kylie’s website. I was really starting to get nervous because the concert is on November 6th! Well yesterday’s events caused a wonderful whirlwind!
- It all started with a good-bye party for a co-worker
- At this party a retired co-worker I have been meaning to phone showed up
- I have been meaning to phone her because she is from Peru
- I had a great visit with her and got lots of good advice, then I told her my fears about the concert not being on sale yet
- She asked me “Where are they holding the concert? At the Stadium?”
- I didn’t remember the name so I took her to my office and looked it up online
- The first result in my search was a comment from someone to the webmasters of Kylie.com it read…”The Peru tickets have been on sale for awhile now, why haven’t you told anyone? Here is the link to where you can buy them”
- I almost fainted! So the two of us in excitement rushed to the Spanish only website and quickly read all the details. The only thing we weren’t quite sure on was the proper way for Canadians to get their tickets. Not wanting a repeat of my ticket hassles with the Czech Republic I grabbed the phone, called Peru and handed it to Maria. She spoke beautiful Spanish to them, found out all the details and all I had to do now was purchase my tickets online with VISA and pick them up whenever I arrive in Peru
- Well by the time the phone call was over our Corporate Security department had blocked the ticket purchasing website. NOW WHAT! Did I have to go home? I phoned Bev and she told me we should go to the library downtown and use their computers!
- So off to the library we went. Pulled up the website. Tried to purchase the most expensive ticket. (I was going to purchase a second balcony ticket or something but Maria told me “Ummm you got a round trip ticket to Peru for only $425, I think you can afford a good concert ticket”)
- So I managed to read the entire website very successfully in Spanish, navigated through the screens, registered as a user of their site, and put in my request for tickets
- Turns out for foreigners you need your passport number! Where was I going to get my passport number? After a bit of thinking I phoned Nick as his Guarantor on his passport application my passport number was on his form! He just happened to bring the form with him to work that day so I was back in business
- Then after signing up for Verified by VISA, drumroll please ……… I GOT 6th ROW TICKETS TO KYLIEX2008!!!!
Phew! Now that I have my tickets I can finally start to plan the rest of the trip. I haven’t been able to book hostels or anything because I didn’t know if I was going to the concert or not. I leave you now with a 30 second clip of Kylie and her male cheerleaders performing the title of this post LIVE from her tour “WOW!”
