Today I was watching Hi-5 with Gal Smiley, and as those of you who read this blog know, I am totally obsessed with the show, especially the outfits the girls wear. I know all the words and actions to all the songs, and I can practically quote along with favourite episodes. It’s sad, I know, but a Mommy needs to have a hobby.

I was thinking today, it’s been a couple of years since the last new episodes of Hi-5 were filmed, what are my favourite quintet up to? Are they still performing together? Are they still wearing very ugly outfits? Or have they put their Hi-5 years behind them and gone on to respectable careers?

So I checked out their official website, and lo and behold, not only are they still together, but they are currently touring. And they are coming to Ottawa in June!! I may pass out from excitement.

One problem though is the ticket price. They are playing at the NAC, and the NAC don’t come cheap. Tickets are $30 or $40, depending on location, which is crazy enough — I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than that to see a band that was actually meant for adults. And then — I don’t know if this is Ticketmaster or the NAC doing the gouging — each ticket has a “Building Facility Charge” of $2.50 AND a “Convenience Charge” of $9.25 tacked on to it, plus there is an “Order Processing Charge” on the set of tickets of $3.50. So overall, it will cost almost $130 just to take the kids to see a one hour set. And they don’t even care about the clothes!

I did some fishing around on the Ticketmaster site, and it would seem that although tickets have been on sale for two whole weeks already, they’ve only sold a handful of tickets — we could still get second row on the floor, if we wanted, or front row on the mezzanine or balcony. So I find it really hard to believe that they are going to sell anywhere near enough tickets at the asking price to even cover their cost of being there. There MUST be some way to get cheap tickets to an event like this. Any tips?