Autumn's Santa Cruz encounter*8/12/01*
The night before the concert even though I stayed up really late, it was no problem getting up the next morning! That night I had a dream(I dont remember of) but of who-you can guess. I got up really early and since i'm neighbors with my BF it was easy for us to communicate. The event was scheduled for 12-6 and we live about four hours away. We wanted to get there early so we left at 8. With our BurgerKing stops and bathroom breaks, PLUS my dad got lost and had to turn around cause he was going in circles(Dad I still luv U!) we got there at 12:15. OK, backup- now on the drive down we were SO HYPER!(c'mon, we were gonna see Dream Street!) We took gel pens and I wrote I <3 JESSE in big letters down my arm(when girls saw that they started to pull out pens and do it too!) i stuck my arm out the window the WHOLE drive...almost, my dad was nice and let us blast Dream Street, we hung a poster in our window(you should have seen the looks) But when we got there we practically ran to the stage area to see girls on towels all pver the place, there was still like 5 hours till' the guys actually even got there. But we had to stand in the gross sand for about an hour, then things started. I dont even get radio disney so I am totally oblivious to all those people there-except Dream Street! Britney and I decide to be friendly and start talking to people around us, we later find out EVERYONE was there for guess who? There was about seven opening acts- boring, but Gimme5 was cool. Later I see these 5 guys walk past and go backstage, next thing I know their up there singing, I was like- they walked past me and now al these girls are screaming! It was Townsend, theywent to sign autographs which sent ALL the girls to the line so Britney and I got over to the front of the stage as fast as we could! OH YEAH! Thankyou Townsend! All the girls came back and were sad cause(oops) we got their spot(too bad, SO sad!) We stood in the sun and wind for another 5 hours with sand getting kicked all over us(not fun)We made some more friends and finally I heard screaming in the very back so I looked and saw Chris! I was screaming at Britney to go over and get pictures(caught up in the excitment) They did'nt come out for like ten minutes so we started chanting their name and some stupid band started playing. (We were STILL chanting) FINALLY they came out, I got pushed against the stage-OUCH! But my hand was touched 16 times and they all looked at me(I have pictures) and I got TONS of winks!(go me!) This one time When Jesse came over to touch MY hand like 20 girls jumped on me(but no, cause i'm tall I GOT IT!) We had this idea that if we left our spots early we would be able to meet them(we did-but read on) however the line wasnt as short as it looked, it was the PARENTS in line when we got there and like 50 girls cut so we ended up towards the back(which turned out not to be SO bad: )- We got up there and I unbeleivably didnt passout like I thought and gave Chris(who was first) his gift, he gave a GREAT hug and kiss then signed this RD frisbee I got. Next, Jesse- my dad took a picture of him hugging me, then I talked with him and gave him his gift, then got NOT ONLY a hug but a kiss(inside scream) then we talked with Greg, Frankie and Matt and they signed our stuff. OMG- that was the best day ever! TOTALLY worth all the crap we went through to see them too-we are STILL talking about it!
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