Phish

As many of you know, I married into a phamily of Phish phriends. Phish is Scott's PHAVORITE band, he has attended 44 shows. Our phirst dance at our wedding was a Phish song covered be Dave Matthews. Unfortunately, they disbanded in 2004. Scott and his phriends phlew to the east coast in '04 to tour with the band one last time, which culminated in a big, muddy, rainy, pharewell phestival in Vermont. I, on the other hand, have only been to 1 show, and I watched their phinal concert from the comfort of a luxury movie theater in Irvine..I'm not so much into the camping in the mud...
So for the past year or so, there have been rumors hinting that Phish may return, we were thinking they would possibly come back next New Years (09-10), so we were thrown for a loop when they announced a three night concert block in Virginia in March! Supposedly they will tour as well, but none of that has been announced yet. There was not even a question in Scott's mind if we were going to attend or not...so now it looks like we are going on vacation in March to Hampton, Virginia. Thank goodness this is not a camping phestival show...we get to stay in the comfort of the Embassy Suites.
This morning the tickets went on sale. We had to buy 6 tickets...2 tickets for each of the 3 shows. They went on sale at 10am eastern time, which meant we had to get up at 6am on a Saturday...seriously, that's how much he loves this band! Now, Phish tickets sell PHAST, like all three shows sell out in seconds! Our phriend Chris sent us some secret tips on navigating ticketmaster to make sure we got tickets...tips like calling ticketmaster a whole hour before the onsale time just to make sure you are in the automated system and not dealing with a busy signal...you know, things you really want to do early in the AM. We went to my parents house this morning to use our 2 cell phones, parent's land line, our laptop, parent's laptop, and parent's desktop computer to try to snag some tickets. We carefully phollowed all our secret tips, and low and behold, I got through on my phone and was able to buy tickets for all 3 shows for the two of us! We phailed to get any on all 3 computers and the other 2 phones. That's how hard it is people...I pheel very blessed to have gotten through! A few hours later, we checked out ebay to see how much the tickets were selling for...get this, we paid about $350 TOTAL for 6 tickets...on ebay today, 6 tickets are selling for $2,500!