'We Are In Our Golden Era': Florida Women Retirees To Attend Taylor Swift Concert

In heartwarming news, eight women living in the same retirement community in The Villages, Florida are heading towards Warsaw in Poland to "Shake It Off" at Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour. The group says they're very excited to experience the Eras Tour concert together and although they've travelled together in the past, they feel this experience will be special.

Barbara O'Hare, Donna Brownell, Vicki Dinou, Elaine Helstrom, Margaret Barton, Lisa Kaplan, Lyn MacGuire, and Dorice Kreinbring - who range in age from 64 to 75 - said their trip of a lifetime was planned at their weekly "Martini Monday" night in their singles community.

Women Retirees to Witness the "Time Of Their Lives"

"We were all very close friends to start with and this has brought us even closer like a sisterhood," Lyn MacGuire, 74, said.

Amongst the eight ladies, Barton, who is 75 years old, told the group how much she had loved and cherished seeing Swift last June with her daughter and granddaughter in Detroit, Michigan. "The enormity of it just blew me away. Everybody's dressed and everybody's so nice, everybody's changing bracelets," Barton said. "It just moved me so much how much that woman can create for the whole world", she added.

She also told her friends that she wanted them to experience the amazing concert as well and told them she was going to look for the cheapest, best tickets available anywhere in the world. "We thought it was the martinis talking, but sure enough, 30 minutes later, she called me and told me exciting news that she had found the tickets with some fabulous seats. And for the same they were now going to Warsaw, Poland", Barton said.

Therefore, the ladies' group is now heading across the pond to Poland on July 29 and will attend the concert on August 1,2024. They will be staying in  Poland until August 7 to do other activities like sightseeing, vodka tastings along cooking classes. 

However, Barton informed her friends that the entire trip including the flights, concert tickets, hotels, and much more would be her treat. "I cried. I just couldn't believe it," Helstrom said. "It's overwhelming that someone can be so generous from the bottom of her heart and it is almost an unselfish act of kindness and generosity that I've ever had", she adds.

Since the trip was booked in February, "Martini Mondays" have now been changed to "Taylor Tuesdays." The group even made shirts with their faces printed inside the Eras Tour logo that they would wear to the concert and on the plane depicting their passion for the concert. They will also be sporting friendship bracelets and pink water bottles that say "Swiftie" on them to the show. Barton said they even got the group a professional songbook to study Swift's songs.

The group says their favorite Swift songs include, "Anti-Hero," "Karma," "Shake It Off," and "The Man." Barton even says how she believes firmly that the trip is going to be very inspiring for all of them. "I'm very excited to share this with everybody. I think it means more to me than it does to them", Barton says happily.

"We were all very close friends to start with and this has brought us even closer like a sisterhood," MacGuire said.

"This is the Eras Tour, we're now in our golden era," Helstrom said.