10:15-Headed for Milwaukee
12:15PM-Arrived in Milwaukee and found all the construction near Marquette University. And being the directionally challenged person that I am-had to call Andy to get me back on track. He was trying to get boys down for a nap and just got Madalyn on the bus. Thanks HONEY!
12:30ish I find the Megabus site and have no idea where to park my car. I am super nervous that I will have to drive down the block and around and will get lost in the one ways AGAIN. So I stop and as a gentleman on the side of the road where to I could park around here. He offers up a spot right in front of his car. He is the HOT DOG GUY! LOVE IT! Now I get parking and LUNCH.(which I want to add was the only real food I have until 1AM)
12:55-TCBLOCKHEADS arrive and start getting off the Megabus. They only have to walk across the street and there I am! NICE. They load all their bags and suitcases into my car and I take Kim and Peggy over to the hotel.
As we approach the hotel we can see Tour buses parked outside. The girls inform me that they are indeed NKOTB buses. I nearly crash us up as I scream with excitement!AHHHHHHHHHHHH! We get the bags unloaded and check in to our room. There were some issues with the rooms but I could have cared less. I wasn't in Milwaukee to hang out in the hotel room. I was there to get my Donnie photo.
So Kim and I were on our way out when Melissa asks where we are going and decided to STALK with us! We walked a block and half down to the Bradley! Sweet! Then we find a few others lined up to get a chance to meet a NEW KID! We see Jordan come in a Average /Low end car and this surprises us all. We all start to scream! AMAZING! I thought that may be the only glimps I get of any of the guys. They didn't come out at all in MN so I was nervous I wasn't going to get "MY DONNIE PHOTO".
ROBO (the security guy who pulled me off Donnie earlier)came out to mingle with the fans. He left and then returned to tell us the GROUND RULES and that Donnie was just going to be coming around. NO AUTOGRAPHS and NO INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS! We shall see about that. Kim took my camera across the way to take some Donnie photos as I stood by my FACETIME banner. I will have to take a pic. of it. The kids made it! TOO CUTE! Anyways...she walked back over when we found out that Donnie had a personal attendant taking photos for the fans. The attendant took my camera and took a pic of Kim,Donnie and I but I really wanted to have one of ME and DONNIE. So I protested a bit and Donnie stuck by me for a few seconds longer. I KNEW he wouldn't let me down!!
I seriously was on cloud 9 after that! I yelled a few THANK YOUS to Donnie and we were off to dump the photos to Kim's camera before the show.
Then we go to 5*. There is free beer and wine and fingerfoods all included in the package price! YAY! We also got a gift bag upon arrival!(a coffee mug, fleece blanket, postcard size photos of the guys OLD and NEW, a photo bragbook...I think that is it)
We get in find a table and are off to find the drinks and food. I had some veggies and wings. The wings were nothing to write home about so I didn't eat much more.
We were in group C so we were in the batting cirlce in line for only a few moments before we were able to have a few minutes with the guys. I went to Danny first who I tried to connect on the fact that we had 4 kids...that didn't go well...so I was off to the next. I was standing there for a few moments and turned around and Joe Mac was standing there with noone around. I was thinking...why isn't anyone with this guy...anyways...we hugged and he started reading my shirt. It is a FACETIME shirt and mostly intended for Donnie. I then began to pull my shirt sleeve up to show him the TATTOO he so enjoyed at MOA. I asked him if he remembered this(the tattoo) and he said he did. I was like SURE you do and he said...'Yeah...I do..MOA right!!' COOL!!! Then I heard someone's voice getting LOUD so I ran to Donnie. It was GROUP photo time. I was bound and determind to get next to DW for this group shot. I DID IT! The girl on the other side we found out was from Appleton. While we were standing in line waiting we were chatting and she asked if I was the one that had ROBO take me OFF of Donnie. She read the article in the Post Crescent. HA! Small world. Anyways..I got nice and close to Donnie for the group photo. And that was it...it was a whirlwind and I didn't even really say anything to the KNIGHT brothers. Oh well...it was a super duper experience.
Then after that we mingled around to about 7pm when we headed into the arena for the show. Kim was a happy drunk and a hoot to have around! So glad we were able to do this together. We sat down in the middle section and were in row 4! SWEET!! Then some people came and said we were in their seats...we moved to the left...and sat down...we thought we were in the right place but finally ended up on the right! Finally in the right spot! LOL Too funny!!
I will let the concert photos explain themselves!~ I had a blast!! It was truely a dream come true. I am a lucky lady!!!
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