Sunday, June 9

The day we’ve all been waiting for! The one and only Taylor Allison Swift!!!

When Marissa and I got these tickets a year ago (without consulting Kevin, whoopsie!) it seemed like such distant plans. It’s hard to believe that the day has already come and gone. I’m lucky enough that this is the second eras tour that I’ve been to. Seattle was great, but there was just something about Edinburgh that was so absolutely incredible. For this show, I made 60 friendship bracelets and was able to trade them all before we found our seats. People have definitely leveled up their friendship bracelet game since the 2024 shows! One of my favorite bracelets simply says haggis. It was from a Scottish girl who felt I needed to have it as an American at a Scotland show. Ill treasure it forever.

We got really lucky with the weather as the previous two days had been fairly cool, cloudy, and windy, but while we were waiting in the queue, the sun came out and it was a beautiful day! It didn’t get cool until late in the show and by that time, I think most of us appreciated the light breeze.

Paramore opened up the show and they were incredible. I realized I don’t remember as many of their songs as I thought I would so 14 year old Taylor is incredibly disappointed in 30 year old Taylor for that one.

When THE Taylor came out on stage….. Absolute chaos and magic. During one of her early show speeches she said the crowd for night 3 felt so different from the previous two shows and I believe it. The energy was unmatched. The tortured poets set was a new addition to the show for me to see live. I knew it was there, (I stalk the livestreams like a crazy person), but it was so much better in person than I ever imagined it would be. Screaming the bridge to the smallest man who ever lived was one of the highlights of my life.

One of my favorite parts about The Eras tour is looking around and seeing all of the girls and women grinning and singing and dancing along to all of her songs. No one judges anyone else. Girls in the pit were twirling around and dancing together and it was just so awesome to see. It truly felt like the definition of girlhood and I feel so lucky to be able to be a part of it.

When it came to the piano surprise songs, the second she started singing Haunted, the crowd lost their minds! I was so excited she was playing it as that was one of the songs I remember singing along to in my room as a kid. When she mashed it with Exile, it was the loudest I’ve ever heard a crowd get in my life. Two absolute top tier songs, and Exile is Kevins favorite Taylor song of all time. It was absolutely a moment to remember and in my opinion, one of the best mashups she’s done this far.

After the show, all the streets around the stadium were shut down so we had to walk quite a ways to get an Uber back to our airbnb. It sounds like it would be a nightmare but it was actually crazy cool to be in a sea of swifties leaving the stadium. The streets were PACKED with sparkling fans. People were watching from their second story windows getting videos and waving and all of the swifties as we walked past and it truly was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. Edinburgh Eras will forever be a highlight of my life and I can’t wait to see one more show this December! Until next time, Taylor.