Forced to go the extra mile to see Miley Cyrus

So how did Ann Anderson get tickets to the “Best of Both Worlds” show for her daughters?

Her ordeal began simply enough. She paid $30 to join the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana fan club, which gives members access to presale tickets.

When time came to log in, the information technology specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture quickly grabbed four seats.

“I figured, ‘Hey, I’m with the fan club, they must be great seats,’ ” she says. “But they were way in the back. So I passed.”

Next, she tried a Ticketmaster office, which was out of blank tickets for the printer. Changing tactics, she hopped on eBay and found tickets available for a Hannah Montana gig in Illinois.

“We have relatives there, so I figured I’d make it into a big trip,” she says.

The seats weren’t great, but she bought them anyway, at $48 each.

“But now I’m thinking, I’ve got bad seats, potentially grim fall weather and a 10-hour drive,” Anderson says.

So she went back on eBay and bought four seats to the Omaha show for $1,000 total. She put her four Illinois tickets on eBay, and got almost the same amount for them.

On the day of the show, out of curiosity, Anderson went back onto Ticketmaster’s site and “unbelievably” found four tickets right next to Cyrus’ catwalk. (Prime tickets that are held back for promotional purposes, but go unused, often are released right before shows.)

She snapped them up, then offered a friend her eBay-purchased tickets at face value.

“At one point, Miley addressed the crowd, the parents really,” Anderson says of the show. “She said, ‘I know it took a lot for you to get here tonight.’

“I had to smile. If she only knew.”