Name: Krista
Location: Minnesota
Place you met them: Mall of America Sam Goody Rotunda
Date you met them: June 23rd 2002

My friend Cassie, my mom, and me left the house at 6:30 thinking the line would be sooo long like the Aaron Carter meet n greet. We got there at 7:15 and the line wasn't that bad. We sat down because they wouldn't let us in the rutunda until 11:00.

Before 11 music began playing and I ran over to the rutunda and saw near the sound board that the A*TEENS WERE THERE!! I was like "OMG OMG OMG CAN'T BREATHE DHANI IS STANDING RIGHT THERE!" and i ran back to tell cassie and we went over towards the sound board where Amit and Sara kept going back to to get their mics working. I saw Amit first and I tapped him on the shoulder and said "Hi amit!" and he said "Hey Girl!" I was like...wow....They began singing floorfiller and I got Marie to wave to me. She was very nice and perky that day. I tried to get dhani to wave to me and he finally did and I was like"YES!!!" I ran back to my mom and told her and she didn't seem too excited. I then got Sara to wave to me when I went back with tears of joy. Sara jumped off the stage and I took a picture of her talking to the guy at the soundboard. They then got done and went off the stage and got some pictures from the fans. I called out Dhani's name and held up my camera showing i wanted to take a picture of him. he made this weird face at me and I took a picture of it. They left and I waved to Marie and she waved back.

We waited for about an hour until they let us into the rutunda. When we got into the rutunda we ended up in the 2nd row but snuck into the first row near the speakers. Shhhh...lol. A guy I met there named Tommy interviewed me on Radio Disney also and I said "Hi my name is Krista I'm from Minnesota and I'm excited to see A*Teens cause Dhani is SOOOO hot!" They kept playing the A*teens video chfil over and over again and I got so sick of it I could just cry! They played it every three minutes in the 2½ hours we had remaining...thankfully I got to help my mom get food from taco bell upstairs AWAY FROM THE MUSIC! Lol no offense but right now I don't really like that song (we all wonder why :P)When we went back down there we waited for another 35 minutes and ate our food.

By the time we were done Tommy went onstage and made announcements. I screamed my head off before they even got onstage. He finally said "Please welcome the A*TEENS!" and everyone screamed as we waited for them to come onstage. I heard screaming from the side they came on and they went onstage and opened with upside down. of course knowing me I sang along! They then sang Floorfiller, Dancing Queen, and chfil(Cant help falling in love with you) ....and since we were a good audience they sang let your heart do all the talking. They left the stage to cool off and me and cassie tried to save our ears from the loud music since we were right by the speaker...lol. They came onstage and sat down in the chairs and I called out Dhani's name. I asked him to wave to me and hes like...WHAT??? and I showed him and example of a wave and then he looked at me for a minute and grinned and did this very sheepishly wave and looked at me as if I was some kinda fruitcake LOL!!!

Cassie and I finally got onstage and i tried to take a picture of them but the guards were rushing me too much and I went up to Amit and gave him the cd cover. I said hi but he just ignored me as he signed the cover and handed it back. Next was marie and I said hi and she said hi back. she was veryy pretty. She passed it over to Sara and I looked at Dhani and she said hi like a million times before I knew she was talking to me. I was in my little dhani world...lol. next was dhani and I handed him a scrapbook I made for them all and sara saw it and she said "thats very cool!" and he looked at the cover and looked at me for literally a minute and did this cute little swedish chuckle and said "Thanks that was very nice of you" I asked for a hug but the guard told him he couldn't give them out :( I walked off the stage in amazement that I actually heard Dhani talking to me...TO ME!!!!!

Tommy asked me if I wanted to say anything on air and I was like..stammering the whole time..I was like...m-m-m-my namme is kr-kr-ista and I just met the A-Teens and all i can say is ....I'M SPEECHLESS!! That day was the best day EVER!!!

*Manda Note*: When Krista gets her pictures developed she will send them to me and i will post them in the pictures section for everyone! Also, i was at that performance/meet n greet and the A*Teens did an *awesome* job!!

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