Sheena's Hanson Encounter


We arrived at Riverbend Music Center about 2. After a while we started seeing people we recognized.
Then Diana was holding Zoe and she was talking to some sort of guard and Mackenzie was standing there with her. Diana finished talking and everyone was screaming for Mackenzie.
He came down to us which took about 20 minutes he is a small tike and it was a big hill.
Well he got down there and he was right in front of us.
She said "No pictures please" then he covered his ears and said to stop screaming and he put his little hands out like he wanted to say something everyone quieted down and he acted like he fainted and laid down in the grass. He laid there for about 5 minutes and 2 security guards came down and made him get up because they wouldn't let Diana come down there but her,Zoe,Jessica,and Avery were standing under a tent while Mackie was making his way back up the hill.
Then Jessica and Avery were having a ball jumping from car to car inside the gates driving all the fans nuts.
Then me and my friend Cat went on a walk we were standing there talking to some girls and someone asked me "Are you from the hotel?" and I said "Yes." she said "The Hanson hotel?"
"Yes!" Then me and her talked for a while she was Jill aka H.O.F. hehe I told her to start posting she said that she read it but never posted.
We walked over to where the V.I.P's go and I started talking with that lady hoping she would say you can go back there but she never did.
We went back and resumed the spot our moms were holding for us in the line.
We were standing there and I saw some out of control blond hair walking on the other side of the fence (he was on the same side of us just around the corner) and I knew I recognized that hair from the Toronto concert when I talked to him.
It was Jarrod Gollihare, Mark, and John Russel. I walked over there and I said to Jarrod: "Are you guys Admiral Twin?"
Even though I met them in Toronto heck it's a good conversation starter. Jarrod: "Yeah Admiral Twin (he corrected me I pernounced it wrong) well we're late HI"
Sheena:"Hi!" Then we walked back over to our places and I saw someone walk by me with a WSA sign and I said "Hey I'm from the Hanson Hotel who are you?"
It was Kirsten we talked for a while and she said how Cara,Tigger and Tay were looking for me and she was telling me where Cara was standing and what she was wearing when here comes Richer.
So I met Richer before Cara. We stood there and talked to Richer for 5 or 6 minutes then he went and got Cara and I met her.
All the people from the HHMB stayed in line with us because we were pretty close to the front of the line.
After we got through the gates me and Cara went to the Souvineer booth together. That took forever to get through those lines are so long.
Well we walked around and I lost my friend and her mom. Then I found her mom talking to Jill.
Jill said that Tigger and Tay were looking for me with Cat. So me and Jill went to look for them.
We found Cat and she said Tigger and Tay went to their seats. So we found their seats and I got to meet them. Everybody from the Hanson Hotel is REALLY nice.
Let me inform you their are no weirdos hehe they are all real people, well the ones that I met anyways.
Well we were up walking around and I saw that blond hair of Jarrods again. Him and John were signing autographs. Then I saw Tigger up there so we all went up to Jarrod and got his autograph and of course I had to start a conversation with him.
Sheena: "I met you in Toronto"
Jarrod: "Oh really where?"
Sheena: "You guys were walking behind a fence by the first aid building and we yelled for you to come over and you started talking to us."
Jarrod: "Oh yeah I remember you, Toronto was an awesome show."
Sheena: "Yeah!"
Jarrod: "So you liked Toronto so much that you drove down to Cincinnati to see us again right?"
Sheena: "Yeah!"
Jarrod: "Where are you coming from?"
Sheena: "Southern Indiana"
Jarrod: "Whoa thats a long way to drive to Toronto"
Sheena: "Yeah it was worth it though, where can I get your guys' cd?"
Jarrod: "Well right now you can only buy it on the internet but we are working with a record company and hopefully once we get everything with them all worked out you will be able to buy it and stores and stuff like that."
Sheena: "Thats awesome"
Then this security guy came over and started talking to him and he turned back to me.
Jarrod: "Well it was nice meeting you again and talking to you bye."
Sheena: "Yeah! Bye!"
Then we went over to John and it was my turn up and I g ave him my book and he started talking to me and we walked over to where Jarrod was standing together and he said:
John: "Hey Jare ya ready."
Jarrod: "Yeah almost"
Then some girls came up to John and asked for his autograph and my arm was touching Johns so obviously I was standing right next to him.
So he turned his back to my arm and leaned on my arm. I was having a freak out in my mind but remained calm.
Then John kept elbowing me in the ribs and turning around and smiling when he did it.
Ok he is I think 9 years older than me hehe theres nothing wrong with that. j/k.
Well we went to our seats in the 900 section and jumped and clapped while Admiral Twin was up they were totally awesome the crowd was psyched about them yeah they were anxious to get Hanson out there but everybody was loving Admiral Twin.
Well they went off. And we wanted to find seats where we could actually see Hanson.
I saw a patch of empty seats in the 500 section so I went and asked the guy if we could sit there and he said if it wasn't putting his job on the edge he would let us but it was so we couldn't.
So we went back to our s eats and Walker walked by and I said Hi Walker and he kinda waved I don't think he knew who said it.
And the woman sitting next to me asked who that was and I said "Oh thats Walker ."
and she said "Well whos that?" I said "It's Hansons dad"
she kept going are you sure? Yes dummy I'm sure he waved and smiled when I said Hi Walker.
So she went up and talked to him and she said he was really nice.
Well she told me what she said to him and I am surprised he was that nice because she is a lady who will say anything she said to him "Well buddy there aren't that many places around Lexington" or something like that I thought she was kind of rude and Walker being so nice to her.
But he told her how they pick where they are going to play thats what I forgot hehe sorry.
Well Hanson finally came out they started with Gimmie Some Lovin/Shake Your Tale feather then they continued and played Thinking of you then they started talking and I decided we should try to move closer.
So I went and found us seats in the 400 section luckily the guard wasn't looking when we slid by.
I stood up on the arms of my chair to make myself higher than everyone else.
Well Zac and Ike saw me right off the bat. Taylor didn't finally see me until closer to the end of the concert.
We snuck up to the 200 section for 1 song and a lady asked to see our tickets.
I said my mom had them and she made us move. So we went back to the 400 little did I know Hanson Hotel guest Lizzy was sitting behind me.
Her friends came up and talked to me(we had no clue who each other was until last night, so we didn't know.)
Well the concert went on like the rest of them they used the super soakers.
And then out of nowhere Zac runs up to Taylor and pours a bottle of water over the top of his head.
Which got Taylors shirt all wet which made it cling more :)
Taylor went to shake peoples hands in the crowd when some of the girls pulled him in farther well Zac was up their pulling him out. What a brotherly bond.
When they went off Zac had to ask if they could come back :) aww what a sweetie. And of course they did and played Look At You, Summer Time Blues, and ending with the ever so great acapella weird.
We went back up and met up with Tigger, Kirsten and Suzane again Tigger and I decided to meet up again by the gates.
So we went out to our van and talked with Cara and Richer some more and got the film and camera and said bye to them.
Me and Cat decided to try to get back in the gates when we walked through we only walked half way through and I started saying Look I think thats them.
Then the guard said to me "are you looking for someone" I said "ya our friends" and Cat said "Our moms" then we did vice versa and then we both said "our friends and our moms" and he asked where we were supposed to meet them and I said at our s eats and cat said at the van.
Well he knew we were lying through our teeth but we really were meeting our friends. So he let us go through.
We met back up with Tigger and Tay at a tree and stayed there as long as possible until they started shoving us out.
So me Cat Tigger and Tay went back to my van and hung out.
When a worker at Riverbend came up and tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was waiting for hanson. I replyed with a simple yes and he said if I promised to be quiet and not tell anyone.
We did and he said they are up on those slides and pointed to the slides.
We started in with the Uh huh your lying and he said no I'm not go see.
So I practically hugged him and said "I LOVE YOU MAN!" he laughed and said good luck and walked away.
So we stayed back and watched the guys have fun on the slides. Well we stayed back until Zac decided to start yelling at us and telling us to come closer and he was making everyone aware that we were in deed girls.
So then a bunch of screaming teenies heard him yelling at us and walked over kinda slow because they didn't have a clue what was going on.
So we went up to the fence and Taylor was standing there when we got there.
He was leaning up against a board with his maroonish colored swim trunks and no shirt on. He did a simple hi and grabbed his tube and took off up the stairs while mumbling something too us I couldn't really understand.
Well then came around Zac we said hi to him and he said "hey" and smiled.
And went up the stairs and looked through the hole in his tube and pointed at us and grinned. Oh so cute :).
Ike walked by with just a little wave and a smile. Then Ashley walked by and he was just smiling.
Then here come some guys I didn't recognize. But they were probably some of Hansons friends that came up from Tulsa (there were about 5 with their head shaved, oh no!)
Well they came by again and Zac was getting very happy he waved a lot and smiled. And every time he would go on the slide he would wave at us and yell some thing down to us.
Which we could never understand.
Well then came the screaming teenies and Taylor was down by us again he seemed like he was kind of sick of screaming teenies he had a kind of disgusted face when he was looking at them.
But then he turned to us and smiled.
We didn't scream or jump up and down, nope, not once.
Then the security guards came running over telling everyone to get out they were closing.
Taylor ran over to the gate and started unlocking it.
I turned and saw him and kept my eyes back there and he saw me looking and waved us over.
The security guard was yelling at us. And we definatly should have ran over but then they would have for sure ran us out.
So I looked at Taylor and shrugged.
And he just stood their still trying to get the gate un-done.
Well a security guard went over to Taylor and started talking to him.
And you could see Taylor pointing to our van and talking like he was mad at the guy. Then the guy came running up to the security guard and said "He said to stop this van and get them back there"
But they didn't pay a bit of attention to a word Taylor said they told us it didn't matter and they needed to close up and go home so we have to leave.
Well we went across the street and parked and they saw us and Zac started doing a hystarical waving thing.
And then everytime he went off the diving board he did flips. Taylor went off a couple times a few times he just jumped off and one time he was going to do a back flip or something and he slipped and fell off backwards.
hehe Ike went off and did some kind of thing that made a huge splash.
Well we watched them swim for about 1/2 and then they went in a building and changed and left.
For all you girls that wonder if Taylor has been working out, Yes he has he has a 6 pack. And he is very muscular.
I couldn't really see Isaac that well when he waved but he looked like he had some muscles too.
Zac was covering up his stomach for some reason he didn't want us to see what a shirt usually covers but he was very sweet :) grinning when he went by and taking the tube away for a second then putting it back over and we would just smile and laugh.
But at the concert Zac was wearing a black t-shirt and orange and red camaflouge (sp?) pants and he had his hair down.
Taylor was wearing at first a blue and white tie dyed type polo shirt and black pants then he must have changed because when Zac drenched him with the water he had on a gray t-shirt he had his hair down.
Isaac was wearing a black t-shirt with a tannish-yellowish short sleeved shirt over it and he left it unbuttoned. He had on red leather pants. and had his hair down for a few songs then put it up in a tail.
They all looked very nice at and after the concert. I hope that wasn't too long and was enjoyable. ------- Sheena/WSA/Hanson Hotel/|-(-\)\|