Almost ten years ago, my family and I ventured to see the Backstreet Boys at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta during their "Black & Blue" tour. My sister was a big fan...no, "big" does not even come close to describing it. She loved them, had her bedroom walls practically wallpapered with their posters, and stalked MTV in hopes of catching her fifty-thousandth viewing of the "Backstreet's Back" music video. So, when I learned that the Backstreet Boys would be bringing their "This Is Us" tour to the Wild Adventures Theme Park in Valdosta, Georgia (the weekend before her twenty-sixth birthday, no less!), I wanted to take her, if for nothing else, the nostalgia factor. I mean, how could they possibly be as good as they were back at the height of their career, especially since they had gone from selling out the 75,000-seating Georgia Dome to...playing at an amusement park? It would be fun to have a blast from the past. All tickets were only $10, not including the $50 park admission, a far cry from the $180 it cost for me to see "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" from the second row just last year. The downside: we waited until the day before to order tickets and, therefore, got stuck with row Z (the rows do go back to GG so, at least, we weren't all the way in the back).
