So Jen and I are walking down the street back to our hotel after the show. We actually got to stop traffic to cross the street! But anyway, we're walking and all of a sudden we hear "AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME." This is Jen's "Happy Song" and it WAS NOT played in concert, so of course as the car goes by she screams at the people in the car, who in turn scream back at us. When we get back to the hotel Jen yelled at her mom "HOWIE WAVED AT ME!" Jen's mom then says she wants something to drink so she sends us off to Jack in the Box to get something for her. Well, we're way too wired to just go and come back, so we head off towards Target, both knowing that they close at 10p, but not really caring. As we're walking across the street, we see this van with BSB stuff written in window "chalk" all over it, so we of course yell at the driver, who leans out the window and waves at us. As we're walking down the street towards Target, we see another van with the "MILLENNIUM" pictures of the BOYS in black and white taped up. Then one of the pictures comes down and a girl leans out the window and yells at us (we are both still wearing our blue glow sticks, so you know). We yell back, knowing that the crowd sitting in traffic is just way too excited to contain it. We walked around the Target parking lot, talking about the show and then headed back to Jack in the Box after we saw that Target was closed as we thought. Well, as we're walking by, this one girl is leaning out the passenger side of her friend's car, yelling "I love BRIAN!"

So I yelled back, "He waved at me!"

Then someone else in another car yelled, "I love NICK!"

Jen then shouted, "I love HOWIE more!"

Someone else then shouted, "BACKSTREET BOYS suck! I'm SLIM SHADY" and then started blasting "THE REAL SLIM SHADY." Not that any of us fans out there really cared. I think every single one of us who heard that person thought "How stupid! They had to have known that BSB was performing so they're just trying to start something!" Jen and I then rocked out walking down the street singing "THE REAL SLIM SHADY."

When we got to Jack in the Box, we ordered a large soda for Jen's mom, filled it with Lemonade and then headed back to the room. When we got there, Jen's mom told us to calm down. Then I told her that this was calm. We were talking in slightly louder than normal tones and quickly. It was a whole lot calmer than us practically shouting at each other talking at a million miles a minute!

It's strange. I've never felt this camaraderie with concert-goers before. I guess because so many of the fans are so young, like the two nine-year-old boys sitting in front of us in SACRAMENTO, that I feel I need to look out for them. I don't know. Also, a lot of the fans are my age, so I feel connected to them in the fact that, hell, we could go out and party with the BOYS whereas all these little teeny-boppers can't.

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