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fun was today! hehe. i woke up and i was just kind of like "WOW, I'M UP. I'M READY FOR TODAY, BUT I'M NOT." it was weird. i mean, i love *NSYNC concerts 'cause they're just...i don't know, when i come out of them i just feel wowed and inspired. and really happy. and i don't smell like pot afterwards so that's always a plus. suzy and her mom picked me up at around 1pm and they bought subway so i ate a turkey/lettuce/bacon/pickles sandwich, while suzy's mom drove us to RFK. we got there okay at around 1:20 something and suzy's mom had to drop us off before the gates because she couldn't go into the parking lot without having to pay $10 and she was just dropping us off. so we made sure we had everything (id, tickets, camera, film, batteries, etc) and we hopped off and ran down to the stadium in the grass. we went the wrong way around the stadium at first, but the guys in yellow shirts pointed us in the right direction. we went up the stairs and looked and saw a little over a hundred people (which still look like a lot) lined up to get soundcheck party passes and a few of them were there to purchase tickets. so we got in the back of the line and just waited til it went up towards the front which was around 2:05-2:10. i was just in disbelief and suzy was too at the fact that we were just lining up to meet them or go to their soundcheck party. so i went up to the will-call window and showed my passport and flashed my tickets and it took a while for the lady to find my name on the list so me and suzy were just peering over the booth and were a bit nervous about not getting them but she found it eventually and crossed off my name (the passes were under my name) and gave us two purple wristbands with "*NSYNC 2001 POPODYSSEY". we came out of the booth area really happy and then went in line to wait to GO to the soundcheck party. we waited from around 2:10 to a little after 4:30 before they opened the gates in. that was a little distressing because it was hot and i was wearing black (but shorts thankfully!) and people who had just got there cut in front of me which was NOT cool 'cause i had been there for 2 hours and i don't appreciate that. and the people around me didn't either. i hate that. but they let us in and just let us roam free and find our ways to the stadium but once we got there, there were mean security guard-type people with yellow shirts on telling us to "STOP RUNNING!" we couldn't help it though :) it was totally first come first serve so if we were a little faster than the people next to you, you could possibly be closer to *NSYNC. not possibly, you WOULD be. and it did help that me and suzy skipped along the floor when we got there. so at first it was just the band chillin up at this little platform and then without any warning, justin just sits with them (no one really saw him come out, he just sorta appeared there) and he was playing this acoustic guitar. he was really good. (YES HE WAS. BELIEVE ME. TRUST MY JUDGEMENT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FROM *NSYNC IS GOOD AT THE GUITAR.) we looked around for a bit and realized we were in the 8th row and there must have been about 20 rows filled up in the middle sections. and so the other guys are fooling around with the mics backstage so you can here their voices but can't see them and we were playing that game for a while and then they just walked out and talked to us for a bit. explained why they wanted to do a soundcheck party instead of a regular meet-n-greet, which they usually do at concerts 'cause it's something different. it was funny 'cause when they were out there it was exactly what suzy said later. (actually she said this about good charlotte but she was using it as an example for *NSYNC) it was like they were clay figures. or actually had clay faces. they are people that you have on your walls and just see a zillion pictures of if you're a fan and you listen to their music and enjoy it and just get lost in it. and then you see them in person and it's just "wow, they're right there. they're real people with real lives and real emotions. not just paper on your walls or moving images on your television screens. i wasn't screaming like the other girls were...okay, maybe a little but i'm allowed :) i just kept saying "i think i'm gonna throw up." i mean they were REALLY CLOSE when they moved onto this center stage. i could've touched JC's hand. they sang this "i promise you" and it was pretty and then they moved onto the center stage and fooled around and answered questions, although i didn't get to ask mine 'cause you had to have a blue card. ah well, we saw their butts for a little while because they had all 5 of their backs turned when they answered the questions from the crowd. they did turn around a bit and then they fully turned around and it was picture time. they began to sing "pop" and moved towards the stage and did a goofy version with the singing perfect but with the dancing moves...well, goofy. just not full of energy. it was really really funny though. then they said bye and thanked us for coming and they just sort of stayed around backstage but you could see them clearly and some girls were screaming and taking pictures and some just left, chatting about what they had just experienced. it was incredible though. after that we hung around for a bit 'cause we thought it would be really hot but they kicked us out so we looked at the partially overpriced merchandise and bought italian ices. i got lemon and suzy got strawberry. we figured we should get in line AGAIN to get into the show, so we got in line after resting for a bit and the line was even past what it was when we first got there, curving around down the hill, almost touching the parking lot. we didn't mind. yet. we talked with this girl who seemed like a cool *NSYNC fan and was 19 and rode a greyhound from va beach for 6 hours to see them. then we got over the hill and under a tree. the skies were grey and guys were offering to sell ponchos and we nicely turned them down. after about 5 minutes it began to rain like i'd never seen it before. not just rain, POURED. SOAKED. i stuck my on the line posters and the photo i got pre-signed at the soundcheck party after under my shirt but it didn't help much. we were all dripping wet. so they began to let people in, this was at around 5 or so. me and suzy kind of cut *shhh* but we didn't mean to and we were soaking wet and the people who were under the roof waiting in line weren't. they just created a new entrance and we ran to it. it's not like it was first come first serve. everyone already had their seats and everything. so suzy and i go in and find a little spot by a payphone were we can let our posters dry. at around 6:50, suzy saw her friends erin and liisa and we chatted with them for a little while. we felt proud going to our seats 'cause last year we went to their concert in the 500s sections. this time we were halfway up the floor! and we got to go and see them before the show. so we saw our seats and stayed there until the end of the 1st opening act, and we decided to get food so we left and got a hot dog and soda and on our way there we say emily thielmann and rachyll in their seats. on the way back from getting the hotdog in the ramps, i spotted a mohawk and i wanted to see who owned it! i of course DID notice that the mohawk was black and had pink right up at the front. so i looked at examined his face, eyeliner running, his face looked like he had somewhere to go, but he was talking to this blond girl he was with. yup. that's right. it was benji from good charlotte. i saw him and said "hey benji" and he said "hey" and we walked away from each other. suzy and i were just like "whoa. how weird is that? benji at a *NSYNC concert?" heh, i thought it was pretty cool anyway. didn't he mention his favorite boyband was *NSYNC in one of the early bios. no wait that was joel. ahhh well. they're bros anyway. on our way back also to our seats, we visited sibel and talked for her for a while and went to our seats and saw meredith edwards on stage. but actually we went down on the floor to look for our seats and we went into section B1 instead of B2, so we thought some guy was sitting in our seats but he wasn't. this cute guy who was event staff lead us to our seats. he was nice about it and sort of laughing it off. after the hotdog, suzy had to go to the bathroom so we went and the line was long but whatever. it didn't take too long. we split a soft pretzel when we were in line. we went back in and there was about 30 minutes to *NSYNC so we just chilled in our seats. they played britney spears' "stronger" video, which i don't really like. i guess i'm not really going to spoil the concert for anyone who's going to read this and see it? i don't know who would read this and go, but maybe that's just my excuse 'cause i don't feel like going into deep deep detail of the concert. they opened it in a cool cool wayyyy, tricking the crowd. they performed on this center stage a lot instead of just the main stage. they performed a good number of songs and the songs were in good order and were just right. meaning they played enough from their first album, enough from their second, and enough from their third. "gone" which is my favorite song from celebrity was very well-done. it had a beautiful black-and-white opening scene. just everything tied in perfectly together in the whole concert. the themes to be exact. they had the funniest little opening scenes on the big screen before certain songs, lol they were hilarious and showed off their goofier sides. they closed with a hit and was appropriate and after they said "bye bye bye" it was sad and people missed them already. i think i'm starting to get defensive when people make stupid, catty comments about *NSYNC because i truly love them. i think they're amazing performers with talent. they can sing, dance, and WRITE very well. yes, write. :-P so if you insult them to my face i will literally just smile and nod or not say anything but deep down inside i'll feel hurt or just feel offended. but besides all that, the evening was really fun and suzy and i have really wet posters that need to dry NOW.
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got there around 6:17 (we were supposed to be there at 6), but he was no where to be found. We saw this guy we knew from the Blink concert and talked to him for a little bit and walked around to see the rides and booths and I saw Allie and she ran up to me and looked in my purse. I felt soooo bad though 'cause I didn't bring the thing signed by Joel for her!!! ah, but I should've known she'd be there, but I didn't bring it anyway. We walked back towards the playground and were just about to call Boyer, when Julie makes a little ! noise. lol, it's hard to describe and he comes running up. The 3 of us just walked around different places and looked at the food and we kept seeing people that we knew. We looked inside the actual community center and we were in search for the animals right booth and we found it :) eh, but i forget to say before when me and Julie were just walking around we saw this girl that we both knew from different places and she was just mean. We passed by and she yelled "GOOD CHARLOTTE SUCKS!" and Julie was just like "F*** YOU!" We were kind of scared but we just wanted to beat her up or something...lol, oh dear. Anyway, the 3 of us went to the petting zoo! There were llamas, goats, pigs (that looked really obese), and best of all duckies and BUNNIES! Julie and I were sooooo happy and took pictures with them and Boyer said "Aww, that's cute." But the bunnies were just white with red eyes, and were just awwww. And really big too. We decided it was time to go on some ride so we went to buy ride tickets and went on the bumper cars! Then I went on this big tall slide, which was a lot scarier than I thought it was going to be. We walked around some more got food and sat down at a picnic table, got ice cream, hid from each other, and went on this little hill behind the fence and I played with Boyer's cell phone and then left for a little bit to go play with the animals at the petting zoo again. When I got back we all went on the "Berry-Go-Round" and to the playground and I got kicked by this little kid playing tag but he was really nice and kept saying sorry and asking if I was alright. Boyer's dad came and then Julie's mom came and we went home.
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