previous day's entry August 19th, 2003
Dear Journal,
    Today was the Aaron Carter Concert in Michigan. We went to Stevie Brock's meet and greet which was before the Aaron Carter concert. While in line we made friends with 4 other girls. Their names were Rene, Miranda, Anna, and Lynn. After waiting for him for around 2 hours, he finally came. I have to say he is worth waiting for. I gave him the fan book Abbey and I made for him and he seemed to like it. I got an autograph and my picture taken with him. The  whole time he was dancing. He was really funny. When he saw the picture the people who work at Borders made for him, he asked who that kid thought he was and started fighting with his picture. That was also funny. Radio Disney started to hand out magazines so I got one then got right back in line.  After I got out of line the second time, I started to talk to Stevie's road manager, Nina.  She's really nice. I also talked to Lydia, Stevie's Stepmom. She's also very nice. Oh did I mention Stevie took a ten min. break. He was really suprised because as he said, he never had a ten min. break before. After the meet and greet, Abbey, my mom, my dad, and I were off to the concert. When we got there we saw one of the opening acts. His name was Jerry Reid. I got my picture taken with him and I also got an autograph.  He seemed very nice. Finally they let us in. We went straight to our seats. Our seats weren't that bad but they could of been a lot better. At least they're better than nothing. The concert started at 7:00. First up was Jerry Reid. He was ok. Next was Stevie Brock.  He sang three songs and also did a dance break to "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake. I really enjoyed his act. He was awesome.  After Stevie was Greg Raposo. He sang a few songs himself. He was really good even though I didn't know his song.  The last opening act was Jump5.  Unfortunately Lesley was out sick with mono. So it was Jump4. They did really good even without Lesley. Last was Aaron Carter. I turned really bored when he came up. I didn't like the 70 and 80 songs. They stunk. I think he should of stuck with his own songs. In the middle of his performance my family and I got in line for the meet and greet. We thought it was only Jump5 and Greg Raposo.  To our suprise, Stevie and Jerry Reid were also there. While waiting in line we talked to Mrs. Hargest. (Brandon and Brittany from Jump5's mom)  We also talked to Lydia,  Stevie's Stepmom. When it was our turn for autographs, I talked to Nina for awhile because she was standing by Stevie. Then I went to Stevie. I talked to him for a few seconds. Than was Greg Raposo. After Greg the members from Jump5. First was Brandon, than Brittany, than Libby, and last but not least Chris. After Jump5 was Jerry Reid. After we got our autographs we went over to talk to Stevie's dancer, Josh. Than Stevie's other dancer, Justin came over and we talked to him for a little while. We talked to Josh for about 45 minutes.  We finally left after 11:00 pm. I had a blast.

                                        By: Erica Schleis