Travelogue: Toronto

November 2024
Where We Stayed: an AirBnb

My second Eras Tour show — Toronto N4!
The most wonderful and magical and sequin-filled celebration of love, heartbreak, defiance, joy, rage, friendship, and most of all, girlhood.
The TTPD set was fire. Reputation remains the most badass (1, 2, 3 let’s go bitch!). 1989 the most fun. Red the most joyful. And the vibes during Willow were off the charts. Let’s start a coven, ladies.
Amber, thank for texting me last June about this show, saying “would you at all be interested in joining me?” I had the best time with you seeing Toronto, making friendship bracelets, and catching up.
As women we are so often told to tone it down. I talked to a woman at the airport and she told me how excited she was for these shows because she could wear sequins. That she hadn’t worn sequins since she was a little girl. It broke my heart a little bit.
One of the reasons I’ve loved this tour is because it has revived the parts of our collective heart that never aged past 13. The parts that loved whimsy and dressing up and anything that sparkled. I saw women of all ages — 8 to 80 — who leaned in to all of that and had the time of their lives, in the safest of places. And that, in my opinion, is the true magic of the Eras Tour.
We also got to see a bit of Toronto — we had fun bumming around. Amber got a tattoo, we ate delicious Italian food, drank cocktails with glitter swirling around in them, and made approx 7,629 bracelets.
For the show I dressed up (as you do)… Rep girlie forever. Plus a clear plastic heart purse. Cause really, it’s one of her most romantic albums and that’s a hill I’ll die on. And I wore sparkly Crocs because perimenopause is real and I get hot and need ventilation, ok?

Ready to roll!
Minneapolis airport.
A heart chip. A good omen.
The friendship bracelet making started immediately.