Passport's Ok Go Excursion!

Peer Educators is an organization on-campus that provides students with valid and accurate information to challenge them to make safe decisions. Peer Educators has three subcommittees, Passport, Marketing, and Alcohol Awareness. Passport, the committee that I am personally a part of, creates the Passport of New York City that is given out every year. The committee also runs multiple small and large scale excursions around the city. There are excursions to restaurants, rock climbing facilities, broadway shows, ice skating and others. The Friday before Halloween, they ran an excursion to the Ok Go Concert at Terminal 5! Every excursion has members of Passport lead the excursion. We all met before the concert and took the Ram Van to Lincoln Center. Once there, it was a short walk to Terminal 5. We anxiously waited in line to see Ok Go! We made our way inside and were greeted by an array of band t-shirts, all of which were quite tempting (that's marketing for you!). After resisting the urge to buy awesome shirts, we explored Terminal 5. The first floor opens to a smaller space in front of the stage, that is surrounded by upper-level seating. We walked upstairs to take a look around, what a view! The two opening bands were Eytan& The Embassy, which was a great band, and Those Darlins, a band I found less impressive. As Those Darlins ended, we quickly moved as close to the front of the stage as possible, which was a great decision because Ok Go was absolutely amazing! They had confetti shooting out at the crowd, they played one of their songs with handbells, and the lead singer came out into the crowd and sang a song (like 15 feet from me)!! On top of that--yes, I know, what else could we ask for--they had a light show for their encore. Everything went dark, then all of the sudden you see letters floating on stage that eventually formed OK GO! The letters were on the back of their jackets! They started playing, still in the dark, with their guitars lit up with lasers shooting out of the ends. The concert was more than I could have asked for, for only $15 dollars! An amazing experience at an inexpensive price. Afterward, we went and got pizza at a small place nearby and discussed the show. I could not have asked for a better night!