A few of my online & offline friends from bsbband chat and i met up at bsb's hotel there! We all stayed too! :) we all met up in the lobby at about 1 or 2pm. just about 20 min later, the elevator dinged and out came a bodyguard and a few hotel staff, and there was NICK!! hiding behind the big guys, peeked around them at us fans and faked a scared face lol it was too cute!! then he stopped to sign autos/pics..there were about 15-20 of us. not too bad!! he signed some autos, then i was the 1st to get a pic w/ him!! yay!! i walked up to him, said hi (wow i thought i'd be speechless..he is afterall my 2nd fave!! now tied w/ bri..hehe), and said that i'll be going to his show tonite (that just came out lol), but he was like thanks and smiled...damn..i WAS nervous, tho! well, i accidentially bumped my hand on his big ghetto bootay lol twice!! i was trying to get my arm around him for the pic his..he had on a big fat backpack!! well, neither of us said something about that lol anyways, got that pic of us taken..wow..then let him get pics w/ others and finally got my B&B CD book signed..and watched him standing around...he got done and the bodyguards pulled him away privately to talk to him..this was when they told nick about aaliyah :*( he then went to walgreens..cuz he came back walking w/ those bags, i didn't see that, i think, oh yea i was outside..but i'll get to that lol i happily called my mom and best friend from tx to tell them the big news! mom was like, surprised and really happy for me lol watched bsb's luggage going by..i even saw brian's golf clubs!! cuz they had the UofK covers!! no pic lol am i THAT crazy?! ;) well this lady who i suppose is w/ bsb told these little girls something and pointed out the other door..well, dumb me, i wasn't quick enough to catch on, i went out that way tho, but when i got to by their buses, i found out that I JUST MISSED BRIAN!!!! ahh!! noooooo..but alas, he didn't stop :( grrr! i was so mad!! i did get copies of brian tho!! anyways, went to get the others..and waited for the rest to go out...HOWIE came out!! as you can see in the pics...there were more fans outside..we were all standing by his bus door, he signed autos, and of course, i got one!! when i handed my book to his bodyguard, howie made eye contact w/ me!! then soon after, AJ came out w/ sarah...he was going to come back out of his bus to sign autos, but instead the bus pulled away :( this rude guy yelled 'thanks a lot you f***** drunk!' whoa!! u know aj would be pissed!! he even stuck out his arm and flipped the guy off!! then the bus stopped, out came marcus to yell at that guy! i was standing close to the end of the bus, watching the door, aj opened the door and stood out for only a couple of seconds..he then saw me, i got to wave to him personally! of course he waved back! :) no autos cuz i didn't want to cause any chaos! i WANTED to say hi to him for tim, their ex drummer, since he and aj were close, but i totally forgot..gr! oh well, i'll try again next time, hopefully!! then krystal came out..didnt' stop...soon after, nick came back out..oh yea, before howie came out, we were looking up to his balcony and he would peek out! lol anyways, back to nick..didn't stop, just waved..then onto the show, i stood in line for about 45 min to get krystal's auto! :)...the show there was pretty cool, speakers in the way, but still..brian mentioned about aaliyah and dedicated one of the songs to her, i can't remember which...i found out about that terrible news when we left for stl. i stood in line for about an hour to get krystal's signing..i didn't know there would be sooo many ppl! apparently, howie was staying at the hotel, cuz he went to planet hollywood for lupus..he and nick left pretty early to go to kc...someone's bus was still then we we got back to the hotel! ~ gretch ~ see pics