Submitted to O-TOWN LIVE by: Kelli
“O-Town & Cape Coral”
April 27-29, 2001
You will never believe the week I have had!!! Ok last week (Wed) me and Miranda and a friend went down to Orlando, FL(long a** drive from NC, let me tell you). Nothing spectacular happened in Orlando. We went to Howie's club Tabu and to this other shi**y club while we were there. Just so happens that while we are down in Florida there is an O-town concert. It is at Sea World and is only for this 8th grade graduation thing. Well we sit outside of Sea World and listen to the entire concert. It is so awesome but you cant see them, but that is ok cause we love them for the music above anything. Well there is another concert the next night. It is in Cape Coral which is like 3 hours from Orlando. So we decide we are going to wait on O-town's bus on the side of the interstate so we can follow the bus down to Cape Coral. Well that sucks cause we waited like 2 hours and nothing. They used their purple bus and not the one they took on tour, so we were screwed with that. So anyways....it was like 2 in the morning when we left for Cape Coral. So we get to Cape Coral at like 5:30-6ish. We call our friends that have been camping out at the venue to get really close to the stage and then meet up with them there. We decide that we are going to get a hotel room to take showers and stuff so we do that and then go back to the venue and let our friends take showers while we held the place in line. Well when they come back we decide we are going to go to the meet and greet they are having at the Wal-Mart there. So we drive down to the Wal-Mart and it is SO unorganized. We end up having like 50 million people breaking in front of us. But we meet these 2 SUPER sweet girls while we are waiting in line. They are from Miami and they are so nice and have met the guys like a million times. They know Ashley and Eric and Trevor the best. But anyways, we get to talking with them and decided to spend the day with them and stuff. So we ended up moving up closer to the front of the line at the meet and greet and got through. Dan was first and he is so cute and sweet and hot. My friend videotaped this meet and greet and he was doing this dance and he looked like a monkey, it was so funny. So anyways, I talked to him for a while and stuff...don’t really remember what I said cause I was so nervous. He is so damn sweet though!! I gave him my letter and took his picture. Then was Trevor.....HOT DAMN!! He is so fine it kills me. Anyways, in the video he is dancing and drinking water and then he waves at the camera. So when I got to Trevor my friend and I were telling him about the gift that she got for him. I told him that she had spent over $200 on him and stuff and he was like WHOA. And we asked if they were going back to Orlando that night and he said no, they were staying there...they had just been told. So anyways, I got Trevor’s picture and gave him his letter and he was like who is this from and I said me and he smiled and said thanks and put it in his lap. Then was Erik. He is so adorable!!! So in the video he looks at the camera and like puts his pen up to it and points like RIGHT in it and stuff (too cute) so I was talking to him and gave him his letter and he said “thank you sweetie” and then I got the pic and I am like...I gotta get a hug so I was like “can I have a hug” and he stood up and hugged me and was like rubbing on my back....AHHHH! Then was Ashley...looking so damn HOT!! So in the video he is talking to one of our friends that we met from Miami and he forgot her name And Jacob was like All I remember is the Miami girls. So Ashley was apologizing like over and over and asking her not to be mad and he kissed her hand and stuff and it was really cute. He was so sincere!!! So when I talked to him I was like....do you remember me and he was like....Yeah!!
From Virginia and I was like yep. He was like how have you been and I was like fine. So I gave him my letter and got my pic of him, I think! I was about to die cause Jacob was next and he is my baby. But anyways....I left Ashley and got to Jacob and he was just sitting there smiling at me. I was like OMG what was I going to say to him!! So I was like “hey” and he was like “hey how are you” and I was like “fine“. So then I got his picture and I was like this is what I wanted from the last meet and greet so I am getting it. So I asked him if I could have a hug and he leaned up and hugged me....I said thank you so much in his ear while we were hugging and he said “No problem sweetie.” I almost died!!! So anyways I was about to walk away and Ashley calls me and is like here.....he was giving me the Trevor card that I got Trevor to sign for his drama teacher in Cali. So anyways I walk away and I start to cry cause I got to hug Jacob and he was so sweet to me. (He seemed like he was in this amazingly good mood every time we saw him, he was smiling constantly and dancing around and stuff, it was so cute). So anyways, we talk with the girls we just met a lil more and decide we are going to follow the bus to see if they go to a hotel first or just straight to the venue. Well they went straight to the venue so we parked and then walked over to where no one was and stood there and looked at the bus. There were like 27,391,739,817 people in line and we said screw it. we are just going to be in the back cause there is no point in standing in that line. So we are standing off to the side and Ashley walks out to the bus cause Lord knows that boy ALWAYS forgets something! So he sees Vanessa and she puts her hands up in the air like what's up with you? And he copies her and then she crosses her arms and he copies her. Well he sticks up his finger telling us to hold on a minute and he goes on the bus. He comes back out later and comes over to the fence and me and Vanessa go up there and talk to him...then the rest of our friends (Miranda, Nikki and Meredith) come up too. He asks her if we got tickets and she said yes. So she asks him where they are staying cause we have no where to stay and he says...I honestly don’t know yet but as soon as I find out I will call you. Vanessa is like dork you don’t even have my number and he is like tell me it and I will remember it. So she said YEAH RIGHT!! Cause you know Ashley is a lil dingy sometimes. So anyways he says he will let us know where they are staying. So we go back over to our little spot and watch all the guys come out and go on the bus or beside the bus to change. Trevor smacks Dan's ass when he is getting something out of his suitcase. It is so cute. Anyways....we finally go in to the concert and we are standing right off to the side and it is like so close cause it is outside. So we watch the concert and sing our hearts out and dance and me and Meredith are doing all the moves cause we memorized them. We are dorks....but everyone is looking
at us like we are retarded. So we leave after “All or Nothing” so we can follow the bus. Well of course it took them FOREVER to leave. So we could have stayed for the whole thing. But anyways....we pull out behind the bus and follow it to Ft. Myers. (not far) We run like 2378021830821 red lights on the way. It is so fun! So we get to the hotel they are staying at and get out and decide to call in and try and get a room. We call and we get the LAST available room!!!! How cool is that??? SO yeah we wait on the guys to get out of the bus and they go inside. I wait outside cause I don’t want to get mobbed. But inside my friends are taking a pic with Ashley. It is adorable. Ok here is where some cool shit happens!!!! I got Jacob this black journal with a gold cross on the corner of the cover and his name engraved in it. I wrote a sweet little note on the first page and put a picture of a sunset in it cause he misses those from home. So I have that with me and my friend and I go out to her car and get her HUGE box with all her stuff in it that she got for Trevor. So me and her are sitting by the fountain in the lobby and I guess the road manager or someone walks up to us and asks her if the gift is for Otown and she said it was for Trevor. So he is like well the bus is about to go back to Orlando and I can put it on there and that way you will know he will get it and she is like well I spent like over $200 on it and I kinda wanted to see him open it. So he is like oh so he goes and gets Mike Cronin. So Mike comes over and we are talking to him and he said they are going to South Africa in the morning and he wont be able to take something big on the plane. She tells him that it isn’t anything big, just a bunch of stuff in the box and she tells him how much it cost and everything and he calls Trevor and tells him about it. So next thing we know, Mike is like lets go see Trevor. So he tells her to come with him and to bring her friends. Well the rest of them just sit there, I go with her, cause OMG it is Trevor!!! So on the way up on the elevator I have my journal out and I made a comment about how it was for Jacob and Mike and his g/f were like well Jacob isn’t one to be bothered. And I said NO I don’t want to bother him!!! I was gonna ask them to give it to him for me, cause at that point I didn’t think I was going to be able to give it to him like I had wished. So anyways, we walk out of the elevator and turn around the corner and GUESS WHO WALKS AROUND THE CORNER TOWARDS ME!!!!!!!!!!!! Jacob!!!!! It was fate I tell you!!! His room wasn’t even on that floor and what are the odds that he would walk around the corner right as we got off of the elevator?? Yeah ok so my breath gets taken away when I see him and I am like this is my chance so he is walking towards me and I said....Could you please just read the first page of this? And says Sure...(at this point he doesn’t realize it is for him) So he flips it so he can get to the first page cause he only has one free hand. So I am helping him hold the book upside down in front of me and he is standing in front of me and I see his mouth moving as he reads his note. Well my friend was standing right there and she said his smile got BIGGER AND BIGGER and BIGGER as he read it. Well I just about died. So he finishes and he looks at me and hugs me and says thank you so much while he is hugging me. Well Mike Morin (the other Mike lol) is pulling him
and I ask him for a picture and he is like Sure....so he tells Mike to hold on and he takes the most adorable picture with me and says thank you again and walks away. So then we turn around and there is Trevor!! :) So we walk up to him and I am telling him that this is the gift I was telling him about earlier that she spent over $200 on and he is like OMG lol So we go into the lil vending machine area and close the door cause there are a bunch of people outside in the hall. So we are standing there and Mike and his g/f are there. So Trevor opens his gift and goes through it all And then he takes some pics with her and tells her thank you again and they are talking and then he walks over to me and give me this HUGE hug and kisses me on the cheek and we take a pic together. Then Mike's g/f takes a pic of all 3 of us. Then he hugs me and kisses me again and starts to walk off and comes back and hugs my friend again and tells her thank you. So then he leaves and my friend and I talk to Mike and tell him THANK YOU like 37493749832 times. We go back downstairs and tell our girls what happened and they are so happy for us. I am crying. But it still hadn’t sunk in yet. So then we wait in the lobby for all the lil girls to leave. Most of them do so we get our key and go up to our room. Well Me and Miranda decide to take showers while the
other 3 go get some taco bell. Well on their way out they see Trevor and Ashley leave for the club. So they come back up to the room after they go to taco bell and tell us what happened. So we get ready and go back down to the lobby and wait for Ash and Trevor to get back from the club. Well the van finally gets back and it is just Trevor. So Trevor comes back inside and he came up to us and started talking to us and took more pics and stuff. Then he goes upstairs and we know that Ashley went out with some guy friend of his from Cali cause we met him earlier before the concert. But anyways, we found out that they had an early flight to S. Africa so we went and slept
a lil while and got up and waited downstairs for them again. So we are downstairs and Trevor comes out first. So we go outside and just watch and then he comes up behind us and we take pics and stuff and talk some more. Then he gets on the van that is going to take them to the airport. So then Ash comes out and I finally get my pic with him, and he is soooo half-asleep. It is cute. Then out comes Dan from the elevator. So he takes pics with a bunch of girls and then comes up to us. We take our pics with him and then he just stands there and my friend and I are talking to him and we started imitating him from when he was on TRL and we are saying "Leopard print, Leopard print" He smiles at us and we remind him of what it is from and then we talk some more and he is about to leave and I tell him to have a safe flight and he said "Oh thank you!!!' like no one had told him that yet, and he puts his arm around me and rubs my side as he walked off. Then Erik walks out of the elevator with his eyes half-closed. He walks up to Vanessa and says "what's up girl" and she is like nothin....and we all get pics with him and tell him to have a safe flight and he says thank you in that cute lil half-asleep voice of his :) Ok then I am like all happy cause I have pics with ALL the guys and I totally forget that Jacob hasn’t come down yet. Well I wasn’t expecting to get another pic with him or anything cause I didn’t want to bother him or anything. Well Jacob walks out all smiling and he walks up right beside me and
I am like....Did you like it? And he says "No, i haven’t gotten a chance to write in it yet" and I am like NO, Did you like it?? and he says ohhh yeah I love it! So he says thank you again. So all my friends get pics with him cause they weren’t upstairs with me when I gave him his journal and then when they are done, I am just standing there looking at Jacob cause OMG it is Jacob again ya know. Well he is standing there looking at me and all my friends are looking at me and he says Well are you going to take a picture and puts his arms out like "well" lol and I say Durr!! I am so stupid! I
cant believe I said Durr infront of Jacob Underwood lol But he laughs and takes another picture with me and then we tell him good-bye and stuff and then walk outside to watch the van leave. They all get in the van and it pulls off and we are all waving good-bye. So that is my O-town adventure this time. MUCH MUCH better than the last times by FAR!!! I am soooo happy you have no idea!!! I am so thankful that this all happened and a lot of it was fate I know!!! :) So anyways....there it is :)