Fly to Baltimore, get picked up by Ashley. Head to greyhound to get Erin.. Get to greyhound mad early. Drive "around block" and get crazy lost.. So I call the Hanson hotline and bitch them out for making us get lost.. all cuz we're going to see them.. It was amusing.

We went to Ashley's young life meeting.. which was fun yet boring all at the same time LOL and Ashley also killed a cat or something. LMAO so I kept teasing her about it and then like the next day I totally forgot it even happened!

Decide that we will CAMP OUT. And that we did. Got our things ready, and headed out around 11 to Alexandria.

In the car I'm freaking insanely tired and delirious.. screaming at the tapes that I hate Hanson and Zac should shut up and stop singing and other insane things.

Arrived in Alexandria at approximately 12:33AM. 15-20 girls were in line in front of us.



So we're sleeping, and being cold.. and getting bundled up.. and looking like bums. We decide to set up a little shelf for our food, because ashley had it in her car, and well, it seemed like an amusing thing to do. And it was.

"Mr. Cool" is there, and we already decide we don't like him. When we asked him about handicapped stuff, all he keeps saying is "we're an ADA compliant venue" so yeah, they couldn't help at all.

5:30 AM it gets INSANELY colder, and i wake up.. and can't really fall back to sleep.

Once I do fall back to sleep, someone turns on the radio, because Hanson is going to be on, and wakes us all. We get bitchy.

Ashley and Erin cheat, and go sleep in the warm car. I remain hardcore sleeping in my chair on the side walk. I stay in this chair for 12 hours straight before I have to go to the bathroom.

Head to McDonalds bathroom to change and brush teeth and all that good stuff. Come back, and it's MUCH warmer out.. We chill and hang out.

Ashley (a diff one) who is Hanson's nanny (the younger siblings, not the band..) comes over and kind of interviews us and what not, then takes our pics for a portfolio she is working on for school. She tells us to act natural, but of course we can't.. HAHA. But yeah. That was interesting.

The time actually went by really fast...

I had to go to the bathroom again around 5:30 or something PM... So Erin and I go across the street, but Ashley calls me cell saying they are letting people in! We weren't supposed to be let in until 8:30. So it appeared to just be will call tickets, but we needed someoen to hold our place in line. But neither of us got to pee. HA.

At that point, we had to pack up camp, and it's when time started going slow.....

20 hours of waiting later.. (And I am not exagerating..) we get let in.

We are 2nd row. I decide this is not good enough for me.. since there's nothing for me to hold onto and I dont want to get trampled. So I go around the side of the stage (Zac's side) and stand in the front there.. And oh man was I sooo glad I did.

So I am up against the barricade behind Zac. Lovin' my spot. Until little kids surround me. They were 15, 11 and 12. I felt SO OLD. And then there were other girls w/ "I <3 ZACH" shirts on. Don't know what THAT was all about, but I didn't like them.

I got to peek at the set list, and read "Stong Enough to Break" and "If Only" and the 1st 2 songs, and then "Lost Without Eachother" !!! As the encore.

They also did River, Runaway Run (freaking awesome..) I'm making a scrapbook called.. "And I waited for you.. and I waited for you... times 20 hours!" LOL so Runaway Run has a little sentimental value or whatever now... And I did kinda run away to go see them so that was a fun song.

Then they did Rock N Roll Razorblade. Zac's drums were SO LOUD I could not hear what the hell Taylor was singing so was SO lost as far as singing along, but decided at that point right there that 20 hours of waiting was SO WORTH IT to be that close to Zac doing what he loves.. and me being there.. doing what I love (watching him) Zac almost fell over cuz he was headbanging and yeah.. That could have been bad.

Then Zac did his solo, which was TIGHT ROPE so I am 3 for 3 with his solos. I have heard them all. Lovin' it. He almost fell on his way to the piano and was like.. "I'm dizzy from all that headbanging!" We were all freaking SO QUIET so he complimented us on it, and said it was good we were quiet, because it meant we were listening to him :) And the song won't be on the album :(

The next song was.. I don't know what it's called. "Need You Now" Or "Right Now" Or something. Either way, it's a really sweet song, and Zac sings lead on it and plays guitar on it and I love it mmhmm.

With You In Your Dreams was sad! There was a girl in the front row crying, and I almost started crying myself near the end. But managed to stay strong LOL cuz Zac could most definitely see me if he turned around and I didn't want to look like a moron. And we all had to sing along with the WHOA OHHH. mmhmm fun.

Underneath.. Zac played the harmonica.. and he's in his own little zone during the concert, so he had the harmonica all up by the mic early.. looked like he was on another planet, but knew when to play and when to sing. He had like 10 harmonicas behind him too, Why? I don't know.

Ain't No Sunshine I have no recollection of, I was messing with my phone trying to call Kris.. had no service.. tried to record.. phone froze.. So grr. Isaac sang lead though I am pretty sure.

Being Me was Isaac's solo, which kinda bummed me out, I wanted to hear something new from him.. But ah well. It is a cute song all the same.

Taylor sang Crazy Beauriful.. Also bummed with that (both of them did the solos in Baltimore.. so Zac was the only one that came through for me..) THEN omg. Zac and Isaac were in the kitchen, Zac comes back out when Tay is done w/ a bowl of choclate cake. STUPIDLY hands it to the teenies next to me. I look at him like NOOOOOOOOOOOOO and he laughs. They all start digging into it. The cake is ALL OVER THE FLOOR and all over my pants at this point. Grossssss. So I was like eww and Zac found it hysterical. Glad to be of some amusement to him.

Penny and Me was up next.. Honestly I don't remember this song. I think I blocked it out of my mind because I am so sick of it. Unlike mmmbop, I CAN get sick of it.

WHERES THE LOVE!! First time i heard it this tour, definitely a nice treat :) Fun fun fun. Loved every minute of it.

Deeper.. BORING. LOL Luckily I got "enough" sleep while camping out, or for sure I would have been out. Sorry Ike.

Hey... Hey is so fun. It really is. And I enjoy it everytime i hear it.

You Never Know.. This was also cool, even though I had no idea what they were singing when they started it. Zac was playing drums. So woo Zac drumming is yay.

MMMBop.. Fun as always, I don't think I will EVER get sick of this song. I think all those times I played it for 3 hours straight in 97 made me immune to it.

Ript It Up... This was fun to be in the front AND able to attempt the clapping. Isaac is good on this song. Which proves hes not always a boring ballad kinda guy.

This Time Around.. Yeah I don't remember this. I know they played it. But it's been blocked from my memory at the moment. Oh well.

LOST WITHOUT EACH OTHER!! This was the encore and I magically grew 2 inches from standing on the leg of the barricade. HAAHAHAHA and I was going NUTS and bouncing up and down. Zac was drumming standing up for most of it.. And looked over at me and goes "WHOA!" and then laughed and continued drumming. HA. Love him.


Zac also fell off his drum stool during a song. I want to say it was you never know, but I'm not sure. He fell backwards, arms and legs out, facing me.. and I was like =-O cuz then he hit his head. And Isaac was laughing, and then he started laughing, so we all started laughin.. and i don't know if Taylor even realized what happened.. he was still singing and playing the piano..

Isaac said we only got to hear his solo song at the concert.. and someone yelled WERE SPECIAL or something to that extent and he goes.. Yes you are special.. and not in the short bus kinda way. And now everyone is all offended but it was SO supposed to be a joke.

I forgot Taylor even exsisted, as I couldn't see him for 95% of the show. He stood up and I was like oh whoa hey taylor yeah hes in the band. HAHA.

We waited by the bus after the show, along with pretty much everyone else who was in the show.

Zac got on the bus, then Taylor got on the bus.

Zac got off the bus first, and signed some autos, I was pretty far back, so I just stayed where I was so I wouldn't get trampled or anything. Taylor came off next, and did the same.

Isaac was nowhere to be found.

Eventually he came out of the building and signed some autos.

It was insane, people were pushing, bitching, whining, so eventually I just gave my camera to Erin and let her have some fun with it while I stayed in the back safe.

The crowd kept getting smaller and smaller. I got up to the front, and Isaac and Taylor left.

Mr. Cool kept telling us Zac left too. I had a feeling he didn't, but took a couple steps back to make it seem like i believed him. There were maybe 10 of us there, and Zac came out :) He was signing and taking pics, so I went up to him and asked for a pic, I didn't know if he heard me, so I asked again, and he said yeah and to come near him. LOL So I put my arm around him, he leaned his head in near mine and Erin took the pic. Erin and Ashley got pics with him too. Ashley got a picture with Taylor as well, earlier on.

I ran off and was being a pshycho path, and then came back and Erin and Ashley shook his hand cuz they didn't believe he hurt. But he was all nice about it and didn't really squeeze them like he squeezes me. Hmph. I didn't want another handshake, I didn't feel like being in pain for 3 hours! ha.

Ashley went up to mr cool and goes "I knew you were lying buddy" and patted him on the shoulder/back and walked away all cool. Too friggin funny. Take THAT mr cool.

Then we decided it was 1AM, ashley and Erin were tired and I was just insane, so we'd get a hotel.

We decided Holiday in would be cheap. I swore I saw a guy on a couch inside that was on Hansons bus, but by the time I mentioned this to the others, he disapeared and of course it looked like I made it up.

So we went to park to check in, and drove out the parking garage and TADA there was a Hanson bus. oops.

So we checked in, and as we're at the counter, ISAAC gets out the elevator. And i was like =-O And Ashley was all like "im gonna throw up!" and Erin goes "Do you need any help with that?" and like trips over herself trying to help him and hes all "Do I need help with this? No." And dropped some things as he went out the door. Then she decided to be all casual and goes "Is that Fran Dresher?" (she was on a commercial on TV) and I almost said "Uhh no.. it's Isaac" but i went "Yeah.. it is" LMAO They probably would have killed me if I said no its Isaac.

Micah couldn't get into the hotel, so Erin let him in, but we definitely should have been like GET US A DRUMSTICK AND WE'LL LET YOU IN

We got our room, and went out over by the bus to try and get a pic w/ Ike, but no luck. He was in a tank top! And had to be freezing. And then he got on the bus as we were asking for a pic. But it's all good. He proceeded to fold shirts and hang up his ties ::shrugs::

Nora came over to us so we chatted with her, and then Taylor came out of the hotel, and just got right on the bus but said a few hellos and goodbyes and what not. I felt so weird being there.

Then we went back inside to our room. And no one knew where Zac was at all, but I didn't want to see him at the hotel. I'm too concerned with image when it comes to him for some reason LOL

Anyway, we slept in BEDS and it was fun and then Erin left all early to meet up with some friends.

Ashley and I hung around, and as we were checking out, Hanson's sister and the aforementioned nanny Ashley were in the lobby and we were like =-O And just turned right back around as soon as we figured out it was them.