"Just 5 more minutes, mom. Go bake the cookies in the mean time!" Zac whined as I was trying to wake him up, since he obviously didn’t hear the clock.

"DON’T EVER CALL ME YOUR MOTHER AGAIN, YOU HEAR?!?!" I yelled shaking him even harder.

"Oh, hey it’s you!! Go bake cookies anyway!" Zac said with his eyes wide open now.

"In your dreams, mister!" I said and walked into the bathroom.

I took a shower and got dressed into a pair of jeans with a sweater, since it was only gonna be about 19 degrees celcius.

When I came out I found the boys and Amanda sitting on the couch watching cartoons, dressed and ready to go.

"How do you people get dressed so fast??" I said grabbing my shoes and put them on.

"It’s really easy, actually. You just pull on your pants, and you put on a shirt, brush your hair, and DONE!" Zac joked.

And with that we headed out the door, meeting Walker downstairs who was driving us.

Within half an hour we got to the studio. We head to go through hair and make up. VERY cool experience for me.

After that we were told to sit down on a couch, while some guys put mics on us.

Just then some guy sat in the arm chair across from us, who was also getting his mic on.

He introduced himself, with a major accent.

Just then some guy yelled action.

He introduced us to the viewers and asked the first question.

"Tamarah, are you dating any of these boys?" He asked.

"What?? No! It’s like, we’re all too close in friendship to date EACH OTHER, y’know!" I answered with Zac looking at me with a weird look.

"So guys, you got a tour coming up soon, huh? He asked the second question.

"Yeah after we’re done touring with Tamarah, we got a tour of our own coming up. It’s gonna be a World Tour which we are very, very thrilled about!" Taylor answered looking at Amanda who was standing behind the camera.

He asked us about 10 more questions and then he played our video.

We were done by 11 o’clock. Walker told us to take off our make up and wait for him in the car.

He drove us downtown and told us he’d pick us up at 6 with the whole family so we could go to Planet Hollywood for dinner.

"So where do you wanna go first?" Amanda asked.

"SEX MUSEUM!!!" The boys all yelled. "Right this way, gentlemen!" I pretended to be a tour guide.

"WOW!!!!!" Me and Amanda both yelled as soon as we walked in with a statue of a naked man with big balls. "Girls, calm down!!" Ike said petting us on our shoulders.

"WOW!!!!!!" Tay and Zac both yelled at the statue of a woman with big boobs. "WOW!!!!!!" Ike yelled as soon as he heard them and stared at the statue in disbelief.

"I LIKE THIS ALREADY!!" Zac said and pulled me over to the next floor.

After about 3 hours of history on sex, and yelling ‘wow’ at least a hundred times we decided to go somewhere else.

**AUTHOR’S NOTE: THERE REALLY IS A SEX MUSEUM IN AMSTERDAM, I WAS THERE IN JUNE ’98, IT’S HILARIOUS!!!!

It was 3:30 by the time we got out.

"Where do you wanna go now?" I asked.

"Let’s go get something to drink, I’m dying of thirst!" Ike said.

"Let’s go over there. That’s one thing I love about Holland, all these little places where you can get something to eat, and just eat it all outside, and enjoy the weather!" I said pointing to a place to go.

"Right now, it doesn’t look like we’re gonna enjoy the weather, it looks like it’s gonna rain!" Tay yelled throwing his arm around Amanda.

"Aahhh, Dutch weather, I love a good hour or so of rain!" I said still excited about being there.

We noticed a place where it was packed with people outside. "Let’s go there, that looks like fun!!" I said pointing to a little café.

When we got there we all sat down.

"You gotta try this drink called Sisi, it’s the best. It’s basically 7 Up with orange juice!" I said grabbing Zac’s hand.

Just then the waiter walked up to us.

"Wat zal het zijn vandaag?" She asked. **this means "what would it be today?"**

"Een sisi for iedereen, alstublieft," I said. **This means: "A Sisi for everyone, please."**

The drinks were served in less than five minutes. I payed the girl and handed everyone their drinks.

"Why is it so crowded here anyway?" Tay asked.

"Oh, jij spreekt Engels, uhm……niemand vertellen, maar dit is een receptie van een homo bruiloft," She told me.

"What did she say?" Tay asked me with a weird look on his face.

"Don’t tell anyone, but this is a reception of a gay wedding," I translated for him.

"Ohmigod, are you shittin me?" Amanda asked.

"Uhh…..no," I said as I glanced over at the the guys kissing.

"Aww, SICK, go get a room already!!" Zac yelled.

"Zac, SHUT UP!!!!!" Tay yelled punching him in his shoulder.

"WHAT?!?! they don’t understand me anyway!!" Zac shouted with his hands up in the air.

"True" Amanda said.

"So Tamarah, how long did you live in Holland?" Ike asked sipping his drink.

"Well, I was born here, September 11th 1985, and then I lived here until I was 9 years old. Then, June 7th 1995, my parents, my sis, and my cat moved to Canada leaving our whole family behind," I explained.

**THE STORY ABOUT THE GAY RECEPTION IS TRUE, THAT DID HAPPEN TO ME IN HOLLAND THIS YEAR BUT WITHOUT HANSON OF COURSE, AND THE STORY ABOUT ME IMMEGRATING IS TRUE AS WELL**

"Wow, that must’ve been pretty hard!" Tay said.

"Yeah. Well, do you wanna get going?" I asked as I noticed everyone had finished their drinks.

"Yeah," everyone replied.

By this time it was already 4 o’clock.

"Hey what’s that?" Tay asked pointing to a little Jamaican place 2 doors down from the café.

"That’s a harsh café. Just a little place where they sell drugs!" I answered.

"WHAT?? They sell drugs up here?" Amanda yelled.

"Yeppers, it’s weird, it’s legal! Wanna go in?" I replied.

"Yeah, I wanna see this!!" Ike said and walked into the tiny little place.

We walked in and were handed a menu.

"Would you like anything?" The guy asked with a Jamaican accent. Zac gave me a look that read: I do.

"No thanx," I said and told the guys to get going.

"Oh, but....Tamarah….you never have any fun!!" Zac whined as we got outside.

"SHUT UP ZAC!!!!! God, you’re SO immature sometimes! Anyway, what time is it?" I said.

"It’s 4:30," Ike replied.

"Shouldn’t we start heading back to that spot where your dad told us to meet him?" Amanda suggested.

"Yeah, let’s go!" Tay replied throwing his arm around Amanda as Zac did the same to me while Ike walked in front of all of us.

On our way there we were talking about how the boys got started in music and what it was like to be in the waiting room while their mom was having Zoe.

When we got there we had 5 more minutes until Walker and the rest of the family showed up.

We got into the van, with the usual arrangement.

"What did you guys all do today?" Diana asked trying to calm down a crying Zoe.

"You don’t wanna know!" Zac said.

"Yeah I do, come on tell us, you guys!" Walker said as he drove.

Zac sighed, Isaac rolled his eyes, Tay looked away while Amanda put her head down.

"Ugh, FINE! I’ll do it!! We went shopping!" I lied.

"Oh really? That sounds like fun! Did you get anything?" Diana asked.

"Uhh uhh," Zac said, since the only thing we bought were all kinds of condoms from the sex museum.

"We didn’t buy anything, we just looked around!" I interrupted.

With that we arrived at Planet Hollywood.

We all got sat down at our tables. The boys shared one with Jessie, Avie and Mackie, while Amanda and I shared one with Walker and Diana.

"So how are you girls getting along with Zachary and Taylor?" Diana asked while looking through her menu.

"Just great!" Amanda sighed.

"Wonderfull, he’s a great guy," I answered.

"They’re both well behaved boys. Except for when Zac loses control over his hyperness, because then Tay gets very pissed off. But Ike has always been very calm, he handles those boys great," Diana told.

Amanda and I just laughed it off.

Since I wasn’t too hungry I ordered a large Oreo shake.

**AUTHORS NOTE: I GOT A THING GOING WITH OREOS, I DUNNO WHAT IT IS!!**

Everyone else ordered pizza’s.

While we were waiting for our food to be served we got to wander around a bit.

Amanda and I decided to go off on our own and do some ‘girl talk’.

We enjoyed looking at the stuff from Titanic. Unfortunately no celebrities were there except for Hanson, who were enjoying their time with their siblings. Since it was a school night, no young teens were there to mob the boys.

We returned to our tables as our food was served.

Diana and Walker told us the funny baby stories of the boys and Zoe.

I laughed it off. Same with Amanda.

When we had returned to the hotel, Zac and Mackie got their own room while Amanda moved in with me.

Diana and Walker had moved to a different floor with Zoe again.

When I got to my room and I started blowing up the condoms I bought that day, except for one, which was for Zac.

Who walked in right that second.

"Hey babe, whatcha doin?" He asked kissing me on my cheek.

"I’m in the middle of blowing up a condom, what does it look like?" I replied.

"Geez, something crawled up your ass today! Where’s my strawberry flavored one?"

"Uhh……I think I popped that one….."

Just then Amanda walked in with Ike.

"How’s it hangin bro?" Ike asked hitting Zac on his shoulder.

"Between the legs!" Zac laughed.

"I guess I should call my cousin, huh?" I said throwing the last condom out.

"Yeah, want us to leave?" Amanda asked.

"No, that’s okay, he’s awesome!" I replied and started dialing his number.

I called and told him I was in the country. He sounded excited. Tomorrow I was gonna meet him and we would go to my aunt’s/his mother’s apartment.

The rest of the night we spend it watching Austin Powers.

At the end Tay wouldn’t stop talking about how badly he wanted to get a rotating bed.

"In you dreams" was Amanda’s reply.

After that everyone went back to their rooms and off to "dream land" as Diana would call it.

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