A DAY OR SO LATER I GET A PHONE CALL FROM JESS SAYING: "LISA!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING AT 12:30 TOMORROW???" I WAS DUMBFOUNDED AND ASKED WHAT AND SHE SAID "SEEING HANSON!!!!!!!" I NEARLY DIED RIGHT THEN AND THERE! I SPENT ALL NIGHT PICKING OUT CLOTHES AND ENDED UP LOOKING LIKE A MESS ANYWAY, BUT BY THE NEXT MORNING I WAS SOOOOO PSYCHED!!
WE GOT THERE THINKING IT WOULD BE A PRIVATE AFFAIR, BUT THERE WERE ALREADY SEVERAL GIRLS IN THE AREA. WE WENT UP TO THE TABLE WHERE THEY CHECKED YOUR NAME AND GAVE YOU TICKETS AND THEN THEY TOLD US TO COME BACK LATER. WE DECIDED TO JUST STAY THERE AND THAT MAY JUST BE WHY WE WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE ON LINE. AFTER A LONG TIME OF WAITING THEY FINALLY LET US INTO THE BUILDING WHERE WE AGAIN HAD TO WAIT ON LINE. AFTER THEY FINISHED SETTING EVERYTHING UP THEY LET US INTO THE ROOM WHERE "STORYTELLERS" WOULD BE TAPED. THEY LED US TO OUR BENCH ON THE BLEACHERS WHERE THEY WANTED US TO SIT, AND JESS AND I WERE DISAPPOINTED WE WERNT IN THE FRONT, BUT THAT FEELING QUICKLY WENT AWAY.
WE LOOKED BEHIND US AT A HUGE DOOR BEHIND US WHERE WE SEE WALKER LEANING AGAINST IT. HE GOES IN THE DOOR AND THE 2 OF US START TO FLIP OUT BECAUSE WE DECIDE THATS WHERE THEY MUST BE. AS PEOPLE COME IN AND OUT OF THE DOOR WE DONT LET OUR EYES OFF OF IT. ONE GUY GOES IN AND OPENS THE DOOR REALLY REALLY WIDE AND WE SEE THREEE BLOND HEADS!!!!! I SAW SOME FLASHES GOING OFF, SO JESS AND I GRAB OUR CAMERAS AND START FLASHING AWAY. (ALTHOUGH THIS WAS A LOT EASIER FOR JESS THAN I SINCE SHE WAS PUSHING ME!) WE WERE TOLD RIGHT AFTER THAT WE COULDNT TAKE ANYMORE PICTURES WHICH MADE US UPSET, BUT JESS WAS HAPPY THAT TAYLOR WAVED TO HER!!!
THERE WAS A MAGICIAN THERE WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO "OPEN" FOR HANSON. NO ONE REALLY PAYED ATTENTION NOR THOUGHT HIS TRICKS WERE THAT GREAT, BUT WE WERE ALL JUST TOO EXCITED THAT HANSON WOULD BE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US ANY MINUTE.
AFTER THE MAGICIAN THEY CLEANED ALL THAT JUNK UP AND EXPLAINED WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, THEN BEFORE WE KNEW IT, HANSON WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US! ZAC HAD ON A BLACK SHIRT AND HIS ORANGE PANTS, TAYLOR HAD ON A BROWN SHIRT AND NAVY BLUE PANTS, AND ISAAC HAD ON BROWN PANTS AND A KINDA "BACK TO THE 70'S" RETRO SHIRT. SINCE THERE WERE A LOT OF LITTLE KIDS THERE THE AUDIENCE NEVER REALLY GOT THAT LOUD, BUT WE WERE ALL OBVIOUSLY HAPPY TO SEE THE TRIO BESIDES THE ROW COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF BOYS DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF TAYLOR!
THEY SAID THEIR HELLOS AND STUFF TO ALL OF US AND THEN THEY STARTED TO SING, THEY SANG: A JAM THEY WROTE THAT MIGHT EVENTUYALLY TURN INTO A SONG, "THINKING OF YOU", "WHERE'S THE LOVE", "MINUTE WITHOUT YOU"," WEIRD", AND A SONG THAT I THINK WAS CALLED "GIMME YOUR LOVE" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD BE SINGING ON THEIR TOUR THIS SPRING AND SUMMER.
THEN THEY DECIDED TO DO SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. SINCE THE QUESTIONS HAD TO HAVE DELT WITH MUSIC, THEY WERE PRETTY BASIC BESIDES THE INTERESTING QUESTION OF "HOW DID YOU CHOOSE THE NAME 'HANSON'?" THE BOYS FOUND THIS FUNNY AND TOLD THE KID THAT THEIR ANCESTORS KINDA PICKED IT FOR THEM!!! AT ONE POINT ISAAC TOLD EVERYONE THEY WERE GOING TO PLAY SOME OLD ROCK AND ROLL, BUT TAYLOR WAS NOT SO HOT ON THAT IDEA AND GOT A LITTLE UPSET WITH ISAAC, IN THE END THEY ENDED UP NOT DOING IT ANYWAY.
THEY ALSO WERE ASKED WHAT THE FIRST SONG THEY EVER WROTE WAS. THEY SAID THAT "RAIN" WAS THE FIRST SONG THEY EVER WROTE THAT WAS GOOD. THEY WERE ASKED TO PLAY IT BUT TAYLOR INSISTED THAT THEY DIDNT REMEMBER HOW IT WENT ON THE PIANO...WHICH I FOUND STRANGE BECAUSE IT IS SUNG A CAPELLA, BUT OH WELL! THE BOYS THOUGHT IT WAS OVER AND THEY GOT READY TO LEAVE WHEN PEOPLE STARTED HANDING THEM GIFTS. JESS HAD BOUGHT A GIFT FOR ZOE, SO HER SISTER WALKED UP ON THE STAGE AND HANDED IT TO TAYLOR!!! HE THANKED HER AND JESS AND I WERE SOO PSYCHED! LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAD TO RE DO SOME STUFF CAUSE ID DIDNT COME OUT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. THEY RE-DID "THINKING OF YOU" AND THE WHOLE INTRODUCTION. AND MIGHT I ADD THAT NONE OF US MINDED THAT THEY HAD TO DO IT OVER CAUSE EVERY EXTRA MINUTE WE SPENT WITH THE BOYS WAS FINE WITH US.
THEN THEY SHOOK SOME HANDS AND LEFT AS PEOPLE (INCLUDING JESS AND LATER ON MYSELF) WERE JUMPING OUT OF THEIR SEATS AND OFF OF THE BLEACHERS TO GET AT THEY BOYS. THEN THEY LEFT AND WE HAD TO WAIT FOR JESS'S MOM TO COME BEFORE WE COULD LEAVE. SHE CAME IN, BUT WE WERE ALL BUSY TRYING TO SCORE SOME HANSON LEFT OVER STUFF, THEY TOLD US WE WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR TOWELS SO I JUST BEGGED FOR TAYS WATER BOTTLE AND THEY GAVE IT TO ME!! YAY!! WE WENT OUTSIDE AND SAW PEOPLE WAITING FOR THE BOYS TO COME OUT. WHEN WE SAW THEIR VANS WAITING WE KNEW IT WAS THE RIGHT PLACE SO WE STOOD THERE. WE WAITED FOR A WHILE ALL COMPARING OUR HANSON STORIES, WHEN JESS'S MOM YELLS "JESS, LISA, TURN AROUND, BEHIND YOU!!!!" WE LOOK AND COMING FROM A DOOR AT THE TOP OF A RAMP WE SEE A LITTLE BOY TRYING TO BUTTON HIS RAINCOAT, 2 LITTLE GIRLS, AND A WOMAN WITH A HUGE PINK BLANKET IN HER ARMS! THE GROUP OF GIRLS WENT NUTS, MACKIE WAS SOOO CUTE, AND FROM WHAT COULD BE SEEN OF ZOE SO WAS SHE. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO SAY, BUT JESS WAS CLEVER AND CONGRADULATED DIANA. SHE SEEMED TO BE SO SWEET AND SAID "OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH!" SHE AND HER YOUNGER CHILDREN WERE GETTING IN THE CAR WHILE THE THREE WE ARE MOST FAMILIAR WITH WHEN HEARING THE NAME HANSON BEGIN TO COME OUT THE DOOR. JESS AND I RAN OVER TO THE RAMP BEFORE MOST PEOPLE REALIZED THEY WERE EVEN OUT. JESS SHOOK TAYLORS HAND AND I JUST KINDA WATCHED IT, THEN I STUCK MY HAND OUT AND TAYLOR SHOOK MINE TOO!!! JESS WAS TAKING PICTURES WHEN I TURNED TO SEE IF I COULD SEE HER WHEN I FEEL SOMEONE GRAB MY HAND AND SAY "HEY..WHATS UP?" I TURN TO SEE NO OTHER THEN ZACHARY HANSON HOLDING MY HAND!! BEFORE I COULD SAY ANYTHING HE HAD MOVED ON..I WAS STILL IN AWE SO I JUST KINDA STARED AT ZAC AND I FELT SOMEONE ELSE GRAB MY HAND... I LOOK AGAIN AND HEAR ONCE MORE "HI, WHATS UP?" AND ITS ISAAC HANSON! I WAS FLIPPING OUT, BUT NEITHER OF THEM REALLY WAITED AROUND FOR MY ANSWER! OH WELL!
TAYLOR LOOKED JUST SOOOOOOO HOT COMING OUT OF THAT DOOR WITH HIS HAIR PULLED BACK, AND ISAAC HAD ON A BLACK HAT!! THEY WERE TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO THE GROUP OF SCREAMING GIRLS THAT THEY WERE REALLY LATE IN GOING SOMEWHERE... BUT THE GIRLS JUST KEPT AT IT. AT THIS POINT JESS AND I RACED TO HER CAR WHICH WAS PARKED RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIRS! WE GET IN AS THEY ARE TRYING TO PULL OUT AND WE START TO FOLLOW THEM.. THE WHOLE TIME WE JUST CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE BEHIND THE HANSON VAN!!! WE FOLLOW THEM AROUND THE BLOCKS, AND CUTING THROUGH TRAFFIC AND THEN WE FINALLY GET TO A RED LIGHT. THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN AND THEN WE REALIZE THAT THERE IS THIS BIG GUY STANDING IN FRONT OF OUR CAR!!! \
WE ALL ASSUME HE IS EITHER JUST SOME NUT OFF THE STREET STANDING IN FRONT OF THE CAR, OR SOMEONE TRYING TO CROSS THE STRRET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE! WE ARE ALL SCREAMING AT THIS MAN TO MOVE OUT OF OUR WAY AND EVEN JESS WAS SCREAMING "MOVE YOU JACK-@$$!!!" THEN HER MOM STARTS SCREAMING THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING A CAR AND THAT HE IS MAKING US LOOSE IT...THE GUY ANSWERS.."I KNOW, THATS WHY I AM HERE!" WE ALL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE IS SAYING BECAUSE WE ARE UPSET THAT WE HAVE LOST THE HANSON VAN. THEN WE SHUT THE WINDOWS AND JUST WAIT FOR HIM TO MOVE WHEN HE YELLS AT US "I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU DIDNT KNOW I WORKED FOR THEM!!" JESS'S MOM CALLS HIM OVER AND IS LIKE "WHAT?!?!" HE IS LIKE "I WORK FOR HANSON, I AM THEIR SERCURITY!!" WE ALL ARE BURSTING OUT INTO LAUGHTER AND THEN JESS'S MOM SAID "OH WHAT A SHAME, NOW YOU DONT HAVE A RIDE HOME!!" AND WE LEFT WITH SOME OF THE FUNNIEST MEMORIES I CAN EVER REMEMEBER!!!!
