It's been a while... yet again.

Lots and lots have happened the past few weeks. So many new people have been met, so many have been talked about multiple times, and five of them just so happen to make up New Kids on the Block.

That's right. Donnie Wahlberg, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre and Jordan Knight. I got to meet "the five brothers from beantown land" on August 8th, 2008 at Mall of America. I waited with Amanda and Celeste (a fellow blockhead!!) for over 16+ hours, sitting on the hard floors of the mall, just to see the guys perform 3 songs, and then get to meet them. At first, I was really worried we wouldn't get a laminate, which is what you needed to meet the guys. But once we finally made it to the Best Buy store, we were all happy and pre-ordered the CD, walking out of the store with our laminates =]

With a few hours before the concert starting, Celeste left the mall to go freshen up, while Amanda and I stayed at the mall to get some lunch. We decided Ruby Tuesday, which by the way, has AMAZING food. So after lunch, we decided to go walk by the rotunda, where the concert was gonna be. and HOLY CRAP. There were people already lined up and had at least 7 rows of people by the stage. We ran to the elevator and ran down to the security area. We showed them our laminates, and had them look through our purses (where the guy I had called me inspector gadget, because I had 2 cameras and my phone in there). But we finally found a good spot, about 9 rows back. A little disappointed, but heck, at least we could still see.

Well concert time came... and the guys were late. DIVAS! lol, kidding. It was supposed to start at 5:30... concert didn't start till close to 7, I believe. Which meant more sitting on the ground, or standing for the longest time. Finally the concert came and the place went WILD!! Donnie was first on stage and wow! It was all so surreal. They sang Summertime, Tonight and then Single.

So yeah, we finally get to meet them now. We waited about an hour before we even got close to the table. Of course, the line was held up when Mr. Jordan Knight had to excuse himself from the table and go to the bathroom.. that took like 10 minutes. When he got back Joey began praising him and waving his arms, lol. When we were two lines away from the table we were yelling Joey's name, and he waved to our section a few times.

Anyways, finally, we're near the stage. I told Celeste she needed to go first. Amanda volunteered to go second, leaving me last. Which meant I was going to be left at the table. Rotfl. But anyways, Jordan was first... gave me the cold shoulder... grr! But he signed my laminate and passed it to Joey. Joey signed it, and then handed it to me. Then he looked up at me, smiled and said, "HI!" I said, "HI!" back and stuck my hand out to shake his, rotfl. He shook it and I had to laugh, lmfaoo. But then, Jon turn. Omg, I could have fainted. That man is gorgeous in person. His smile, his eyes, the touch of his hand... *swoon* But of course, I came down from Jon's cloud the moment I stepped in front of Donnie. My main man. He signed my laminate and then looked at me while saying, "Hey girl." I smiled and quickly said, "I know I shouldn't, but can I have a hug?" He smiled again and leaned over the table and wrapped me in his arms. *melt* It was amazing!! I was in such a daze, that I almost walked off the stage then, forgetting Danny was last (not intentionally!!) But a security guard was in the way once I stopped at the end of the table. And before I know it, there's a head coming around the side of the guard, and it's Danny! Smiling at me as he reaches for my hand to shake, saying "thanks for coming tonight". But then Donnie tried handing me the laminate of the girl behind me, and Danny looks at him and says, "No". He smiles at me again and hands me my laminate, and I quickly said "thanks!"

So I walked off the stage and grabbed purse, with a permanent smile on my face. They officially made that day worth everything!!

And now, over a month later, I'm still on a NKOTB high! And to top it off, I will be attending three more concerts within one month! My first one is coming up in 9 days! October 4th. Amanda and I have 4 star, which means a seat within rows 11-20, which is pretty good. And we also get a necklace that glows in the dark, a bandana and something else I can't remember.

And on October 21st, Amanda and I will be attending the concert at the Xcel Energy center, regular tickets. And the next day will be the best of all! We have 5 star tickets, which means VIP pre-party with the new kids themselves! And getting seats in rows 1-10!! The pre-party gets us a photo op with the guys and facetime! =] Hopefully Amanda and I can sneak in a picture with Jonathan!

Either way, I am very excited about all of this. I can't wait and it will be very memorable.