Sunday Oct 10th 9:55 pm- The Backstreet Boys concert is in six days. It is three hours earlier in Las Vegas, so it is about 7pm there. If it was six days later I would be in the MGM Grand hotel waiting for the concert to start. I decided I would keep a journal from a week before the concert, until the concert. I would have started yesterday but I was in PA and I was sick. I hope to get better before saturday. Anyways, since this is the first entry I will give you all the background info. My name is Kerri, I am 15 and live in Maryland about 20 minutes from Washington DC. When I found out the Backstreet Boys concerts there were on September 18th and 19th I was crushed. I would be in California then and I couldn't go. So my parents worked it out that I would see the October 16th concert in Las Vegas, Nevada. Saturday morning my mom, my dad, and myself will drive to Baltimore. We will take a flight into Pennsylvania and from there board another flight to Los Angeles. Then we will get a rental car and drive 250 miles to Las Vegas. I'm excited because I have a VERY good seat (3rd row baby!), a very good seat that cost almost $150, and I get to go to the concert alone. Well it is getting late so I'm going to end this entry.

Monday Oct 11th 10:30 pm- Five days and counting, not to much to say in this entry. I'm still sick but I am going to the doctor tomorrow to make sure I am well for the concert.

Tuesday Oct 12th 2:56 pm- Four more days and the doctor said I should be well by then. I worked on my sign for the concert today, it is half done. It is going to say, "Say hi to Kerri!". You never know, one might say hi or wave. I need to buy more glitter.

Wednesday Oct 13th 4:37 pm- My dad mapped out the drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas today. Most of the drive is on one road that goes through the desert, that should be interesting. I still need to figure out where I am going to hide mt cameras for the concert. You aren't supposed to have cameras there, but that's not going to stop me from getting pictures of my fave boys!

Thursday Oct 14 8:37 pm- I finished my sign today, it turned out nice. We started to gather up everything we need for the trip. Only a little over 48 hours before I get to see the Backstreet Boys.

Friday Oct 15th 9:54 pm- Tomorrow is the big day! Everybody at school told me to have fun and take lots of pictures, I am going to use rubber bands to hold the cameras by my ankles and I'm going to wear baggy pants to cover them up. I finished packing my things. I picked out my outfit for the concert and kissed my ticket for luck.

saturday 16th-
7:45 am- woke up
8:30 am- left the house for the airport
9:11 am- arrived at the airport
9:40 am- boarded the plane to Pittsburgh, PA
10:16 am- plane took off
10:55 am- landed in Pittsburgh
11:16 am- boarded plane to Los Angeles
11:48 am- plane took off (time change, it is three hours earlier there)
1:45 pm- landed in Los Angeles, I saw the Hollywood sign before landing
2:30 pm- arrived at the car rental
3:15 pm- started drive, the car rental didn't have our car and it took 45 minutes longer than it was supposed to and we ended up with a truck
7:31 pm- arrived at the MGM Grand, how is THAT for timing, and I made a seven minute mad dash through the hotel to get to the arena

After the opening act- I missed Mandy Moore (oh well, it's not like I came to see HER) but I saw EYC and they were pretty cool. When they left they walked by me and I got a close pic of one of them.

After the concert- The concert was GREAT! I'm so glad I got to go. My seat was about 15ft from the stage. I held up my sign, waving it around. Howie looked at me, shook his head laughing and made a circle motion with his hand. I looked at my sign and it was upside down! Oh well, it got Howie's attention didn't it? After a while I moved closer to the stage, about 5ft away. I waved to Aj and to my surprise he actually smiled and waved back! I thought it couldn't get any better than that, but it did. When the next to last came on I had made my way to the front row. Yeah, I know, there WAS assigned seating, too bad. All of a sudden Aj and Kevin jumped down off stage. Kevin came towards where I was standing. I reached out and touched his shoulder, I meant to pat him on the back but I couldn't reach! Then I got a security guards elbow in my stomach as she tried to push the now frantic fans way. After the last song, I Want It That Way, they cleared a path near me so that the Backstreet Boys could leave the arena. I noticed Aj, Brian, and Kevin had already exited through there. I ran over and got to the front of the crowd just as my fave BSB, Nick, came through. I reached my hand out as far as I could and he grabbed it! Nick Carter touched my hand!! I came to the concert wishing that MAYBE just one of them would wave to me. I never though that would happen, and look what DID happen. I fill never forget this night.