I always said I would never camp out for an event, especially when it was below 30 degrees. Well never say never. Waiting outside for the guys on 'Regis and Kelly' was possibly a test of my endurance. Jess and I planned on taking a 3am train, getting us into NYC by 4. It then got pushed back to 1am, getting us there at 2. Well...we ended up taking the 11pm train. We were in line by 12:15am. Crazy you say? Nope. We were about 8th and 9th in line.
I don't know how people do it. It was the coldest I have ever felt and we agree our bodies were shutting down. We had to go to the bathroom and there was no where around to go. Not good. I couldn't feel any part of my body and when we finally did get inside, it took a while for me to regain motor function in my fingers.
After a hellish night fighting the cold, rain and line cutters we were giving our wait list numbers. There was a point when I thought the whole night was for nothing and we weren't getting in. Jess is good at kicking my ass into positivity mode though. We ended up being one of the last people in. BOOOOYAAAA!!!
They were literally shoving people into the audience. We were seated on steps. Fine by me. We watched a bit of the show, but you know that nervous feeling you get when you know you're about to see the guys? Palms sweating, stomach cleanched, body shaking? That is what was taking over. Finally I see it. The 'B' hat floating around. Cut to commercial and they all come out. HELLLOOO. They interacted a lot with the crowd, but we were in the back so we looked on and took it all in.
That is until I spotted the Mac. He was beautiful that day. I was being a creep and staring at him. Finally, I thought he looked at me so I waved and looked him dead in the eye. He kept walking till I couldn't see him. Thought it was a fail...then he backed out from a hiding spot, looked dead at me and gave me a head nod. Well God damn! I was done.
They performed and did a damn good job, as usual. Then they talked to Regis. He don't know a damn thing. It still cracks me up that he thought Jon was doing all the work by himself. SMH. After the interview, they did a little special performance for the crowd..."Tonight"...which was a vlog. In the vlog you see my sweet, embarrassing dance moves. FML. Even with that, it was a blast. Donnie came into the crowd, tried to get to Jess and I, but no dice. This little performance was getting us rearing to go to more spring tour shows...which I did.
Now onto the next day...
[This was written when I got home from the exhausting 2 days of following the Kids around. Camp out for 'Regis & Kelly' and a slight stalking expedition.]
Sooooo I am back and have maybeeee 5 hours of sleep in me since Tuesday night [it was then Friday night]. Last night Jess, our 2 friends and myself got a hotel room across the street from where the guys were staying and basically had a NKOTB stake out. We saw Jordan and he basically gravitated towards our friend Grace in the street. I was a complete creep and followed him. We got amazing hugs and he is just adorable. We were waiting and Joe gave us some love (hi/bye type thing). Danny saw us and came over and was chit chatting with our friend. He invited us to have drinks with him in the pub next door. Man is funny and dirty as hell...and he was basically sick of us at this point. Everytime he was outside...we were outside.
At one point we took this picture (Lord help me, I look horrible, but Danny looks good).
While drinking with him, he told us the time they were leaving for soundcheck (verbal diarrhea) so we set our alarms and were out there. Ready for em! Jordan came out first, said good morning and continues onto their mini bus (which after this, I think Jordan needs one sometimes). About 5 minutes later he is off the bus and talking to the ConEd guys who were working in the street. Steam is coming out of the whole they are working on. We made a joke saying how he thought he was at a concert and was getting ready to perform BIBIY. OF COURSE, Jordan would come around the bus just in time to see Grace and I doing the pelvic thurst he does. FML. He gets back on the bus and about 3 minutes later he goes back inside the hotel...and doesn't come back out. Danny comes out, looks at us, shakes his head smiling and gets on the bus. Which then drives away. Last I checked, usually all 5 guys go to soundcheck, but we weren't complaining. We were still staking out our ground when Danny got back (2 hours later) and proclaimed it was "just him." Now mind you, we were sitting across the street in a big window and everytime we saw a big black suv or van we sprinted. I didn't even use steps, just jumped down them and ran. After that we said we needed to get some sleep. We all didn't have a good nights sleep since Tuesday, so we went upstairs to "sleep." Well that's not true, I passed out upstairs for about 3 hours while everyone else ordered a pizza downstairs.
At about 8, I hear Grace screaming for us to wake up and how they are packing up buses and all that shit. We got ready and went downstairs. We waited for a while inside, then said fuck it and went outside. While we were waiting a TMZ paparazzi shows up, which now meant there will be no time for pictures. Finally the men come out (Danny, Joe, Jordan and Dante!) and get on the bus. Grace was all up in there with her Danny hug and I just told them good luck to which Jordan said "thank you" so adorably. We went back to our window and then we see Jon come out trying to catch a cab it. Man looked fine, even if he was a mess and a half. After that we went back to the room and waited for them to grace our TV. It was tooooo bitter cold to stand out there, so we watched it on TV. We went crazy, the performance was sooo hot! Donnie lipsynching...not cute.
After the show, we were getting ready to pack it up and go the hell home...when we see a black van downstairs. Now after proclaiming we were done, because they were sick of us we still decide to stalk. We waited for a while and they finally came out. Crazy bitches ruined it for us, she was legit psycho. From outside, I could see Jordan and Dante having a snack on a luggage cart and being adorable. At this point, my ovaries fell out of my vagina and are spreading onto the street in front of the hotel. He is just the cutest father. Finally they come out and of course it is Danny who is the first one out. We promised we will leave him alone and he told us 'thank you' and went into the van. Now Grace and I needed a Jordan picture, but since the little guy was with him, we opted out. Instead I tell him that his son is the cutest thing and I got a big smile and a thanks. Joe then sprinted it to the car, because crazy bitch was after him. The security guard basically said if she wasn't psycho they would have stayed a bit more. Jerk.
It was a productive two days. Will I ever do this again? HELL NO! Did they think we were crazy? PROBABLY! Do we really care in the end? NOPE! We opted for talk time rather than picture time. Another days work in New Kids land....the memories.
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