Hilary Duff Visits Rochester

Apparently, I was not the only person who had a dilemma — venture out into the teeth of a major snowstorm to see the Hilary Duff concert, or stay home. I chose to stay home. Nevertheless to say, numerous parents with actual 10–13 year old female children, had this same dilemma, and I’m sure prompted by their young progeny, these parents did venture out into the snowstorm to the concert. Radio stations reported that many, many parents called them seeking to find out if the concert was cancelled.

One parent said of his children: “… I like seeing them excited. When they got up this morning, they were ready to go. I’m like, ‘Listen girls, you’ve still got eight hours to go.’” But the younger folks seemed to have an fun-filled, but expensive time:

“The girl can rock,” said 10-year-old Lexany Rivera of Rochester. She was with her pink-clad pals, the “almost sisters now” of Marisa Kruse and Rachael DeSantis, both 10 and from Webster, and sporting official $18 Duff T-shirts. Marisa also had a matching pink boa. Lexany didn’t have a Duff T-shirt. “I brought my Converses, though!” she said, pointing to her pink sneakers.

There was no word on Hilary’s performance or how big the crowd actually was, however the arena did sell out for the first time since last spring.