December 3, 2014 | Author: Joy

I arrived around 4:30 PM. My mom had just driven by Mojoes when I saw Jacob. I said to my mom that is one of the guys from O-Town. That is Jacob. My mom stopped the car. I rolled down the window and waved at him. He came towards the car and I opened the door. He shook my hand and said, “Stay Warm.” I said, “Jacob this is my mom.” We parked the car and went to Juliet’s because I had to use the bathroom. I arrived at Mojoes around 4:45 PM. There were three girls already there. Two black girls and one white girl. Two black girls were standing in a parking space. One of them said that Todd Carey asked them to save a parking spot for him. He said he would give them a CD if they did.

Todd Carey parked his car and stopped by to say hi to everyone. He hugged everyone and took pictures. He is so nice. He made a fan out of me.

This girl with her mother showed up. They are from Effingham, IL. We waited awhile and then O-Town showed up to do sound check. They brought everything into the place. Jacob stopped to hug everyone. Erik-Michael smiled and waved from across the street. I love his smile.

Jessica and Cassie showed up. They hugged me and then went to hand out bracelets to everyone that was there. They gave each of them a bracelet of their favorite guy. After everyone got bracelets Jessicca said I get a bundle of all 5 bracelets for saving a spot in line for them. They talked about who they were, that I won a ticket from them and how I won.

7 of us stayed inside because it was freezing. We were able to go inside first. A guy asks for your ticket plus ID. Then you go inside where one of two guys will ask to see your ID. If you are 21 or over they give you a wristband so that you can buy drinks. Jessicca and Cassie stood dead center of the stage and Jessicca motioned for me to stand next to her. The opening opener was Chris Coon. Three times he went up the little platform where the table with Jacob’s laptop was and kept jumping and moving around. Jacob’s laptop was shaking all three times. I thought it was going to fall. Jessicca next to me kept screaming at him saying, “What are you doing? Stop, get off of there.” She was throwing her hands trying to get his attention.

Next was Todd Carey. He did some of his songs from his latest album, a medley of boy band songs, a song he co-wrote for Meghan Trainor, and his new single, Nintendo. Nintendo is my favorite song of his.

Finally O-Town came out. They sang:
1. Liquid Dreams
2. Girl

Then Trevor introduced the three guys starting with Dan, then Erik-Michael and then Jacob. Jacob introduced Trevor. Then they sang:
3. I Won’t Lose
4. Love Should Be a Crime
5. We Fit Together
6. Wobble
7. Right Kind of Wrong
8. I Showed Her
9. These Are the Days

During These Are the Days Jacob tells everyone to have out their phones and cameras and start taking a video. He came down to the little area between the stage and the railing and took fans phones and cameras and took video selfies of himself with you. He stopped in front of me and I kept trying to give him my phone. He took two other phones and cameras from behind me before taking mine and doing a video selfie with it. I couldn’t believe I got it.

Then they sang:
10. Rewind
11. A medley of songs: Otis/Celing Can’t Hold Us/I Need a Dollar/Money On My Mind
12. Lines & Circles
13. Playing With Fire
14. Skydive

They left but eventually came back out to sing:
15. All or Nothing
16. Chasin’ After You

After this you could go meet Todd Carey by the merchandise table and talk and take pictures with him. The O-Town meet and greet was upstairs. You have to fall in line and show a guy your ticket. Then you go upstairs where a guy will ask for your ticket again. Then right before you go inside a third guy will ask for your ticket and cross you off the list.

When you get inside you give Chris (their tour manager) your phone or camera and then Dan says, “Hi, I’m Dan.” Then he shakes your hand and hugs you. He asks me if I’ve met Jacob and I said yes, outside. Then Jacob hugs me. After that I was just too excited to hug Erik-Michael so I just went up to him to hug him. He smiled at me and asked me what my name was. I said Joy. He said, “Nice to meet you Joy. Did you like the show and did you have fun tonight?” I said yes. I had the best time ever. I hugged Erik-Michael and didn’t want to let go of him. Then I heard one of the guys say, “What about Trevor?” I let go of Erik-Michael and hugged Trevor. Then I stood between Erik-Michael and Trevor and Chris took the picture. Chris was about to give me back my phone when I asked Erik-Michael if I could have one with just him and he asked Chris to take the picture of just us two.

Best night ever. I had the time of my life. Thanks O-Town and Erik-Michael Estrada. I’ll never forget this.

When I went inside I asked Dan Miller if they are signing the t-shirt and he said that they didn’t have a pen and I didn’t have one either so i didn’t get the t-shirt signed. I had bought a small because I wasn’t gonna wear it. I was gonna get it signed and frame it. Next time they are in town I will have to go and do another meet and greet and get it signed then. I’ll bring a silver pen then. This was my first meet and greet so I didn’t know what to expect. Now I do know.

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November 10, 2014 | Author: Joy

Last night I had a dream and O-Town was in the dream.

I was at my high school. It was a coed school. I was in my first period class trying to decide what to do about this paper that I had due next period. I was supposed to interview one of the cliques in school and write about them.

I tried asking people in my class but no one wanted to do it. I asked a girl sitting next to me and she said OK. She told me to ditch class and to follow her and we would go some place and meet up with her clique and they will do it. I went with her and ended up in a room with her and her clique. They were all girls. I asked them what name they called their clique and what the clique was about. Then I went on to ask them a list of questions that I was planning on asking for my paper. I started with the first question. I asked what makes them different from other cliques. One girl answered my question and I was writing it down while she explained. I was about to ask my second question when the clique started getting weird. They were acting like they were going to cast a spell on me or do something horrible to me. They acted like witches or something.

Then a group of four guys came into the room, did something to them and told me to follow them. I followed them until we were outside of the school. One of them said that I was safe now. That was when I saw who they were and I thought they looked like O-Town. They saved me from these girls. When I asked if they were O-Town they just vanished. That was when I woke up.

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