October 19 2002
We had been sleeping for a long time, so we missed the boys going to Rotterdam. But we were cool with that, cos we were SO tired! We took the train to Rotterdam, to a hotel where they had press things going on. We waited outside first, but when they arrived at the back, a friend who had a room there, grabbed my arm and said "you're coming inside with me". So we waited there for the boys to come down again. At about 3pm they did. Trev gave me a hug. Inge introduced her best friend to Dan. And my bestee had a great time meeting the boys too.
They would perform at a show that night. We quickly went to the Ahoy' (where the show would be) and handed out flyers. Don't ask how we managed to get front row, but we did. We had asked Mike if they were on the big or small stage. He told us "centre". So we had great fun! Before their performance, I saw Mike and he tapped his shoulder. He turned around and smiled at us. A while later he came back with some cuddly toy that a fan probs thre at the stage for O-Town and gave it to Inge. Their performance was the BOMB! Before they came on, they waited during another girl's performance. Ashley saw me & Inge. He first looked surprised to see us and waved. Erik looked my way, I waved and he waved back. They did 3 songs "From the Damage", "These Are The Days" & "All Or Nothing". The cameras were all up in our faces all the damn time, cos we were the only ones that knew all the words. It was awesome. They all made tons eye contact with us. During All Or Nothing, Ashley sang to Inge. And mine & Erik's eyes met a thousand times. Also Trev was so sweet. At first he didn't notice me, but later he saw me and again, looked at me for about 5 seconds with that surprised look on his face. And one more cool thing, Jacob saw that me and Inge knew the songs, so he smiled at us and looked at us all the time. HOW CUTE! After their performance we went back to Amsterdam. On our way there we heard that they had already arrived there. We went to get some Burger King. We hung out a bit in our room, eating our food. Then I went down and we hung out in the lobby for a bit. There were Mario and his dancers hanging out a bit and later on, Dan, Erik & Trevor arrived and went into the elevator. Dan kept the doors open and asked us what we thought of their show. We said it was great! And he asked us if we just liked their performance or if we liked all of it. We said we jsut liked theirs (and it's true!). And Erik was making choking motions behind Dan's back. LOL About 30 minutes later Erik came down and walked around a bit and when he went into the elevator Pris said "whoa, you're happy!" And he said "yeh! I'm going home tomorrow!" So I asked him if he didn't like Amsterdam. He said "I Looove Amsterdam! I'm just excited to go home"aw
Erik & Trevor came down and they were all ready to go to Ministry. They left and we just strolled around the hotel. We found out that Dan's room was just across the room from ours and Jacob's was 2 doors next to Dan's! We heard Ashley, Jake & Dan play guitar and writing songs in Dan's room. Sounded SO amazing! It was funny to hear Ashley go "no...it's gotta be like this..." and then started playing his bit. I went down with Pris and Inge stayed upstairs. After a while I went up again and Inge told me that Jake & Ash had been going into Jake's room and then Ash left without his bag, so he must be coming back. And when I went down again, I heard that Trev n Erik already arrived back. LOL So I went upstairs again. Me and Pris went playing with the elevator a bit, hoping to see Ashley or whomever. We sat on the 5th floor, and once I heard the elevator coming I jumped up and pressed the button. The doors opened and Ash was in there indeed. We stepped in, and Ash asked us "how are you girls?" We were like "fine!!!" He looked at us weirded out and said "are you girls OK?" And we were all "yeh!" I told him that we heard them in the room across the hall from us and that it sounded great! He was like "oh thank you!!" He got out on 6. We went down again and in the lobby we saw Trev and Mario standing outside talking to some peoples. When Trev walked in I walked out to get something (a cup...long story) and my hand automatically touched his stomach (couldn't help it sorry!). We went in again and went with him in the elevator and we were a bit noisy. He was like "shhh!" And I said "are we too loud?" He laughed and said "it's 5 in the morning!" Then I figured I forgot my bag in the lobby, so I was like "oh hold on I forgot my bag". Trev asked my friend "does she forget everything?" LOL dunno why he said that! Then I came back with my bag. Trev had pressed 2 for us and 6 for himself. At 2 we got out and he had said that he would get some hour sleep. And he told us to get some sleep too. But of course we wouldn't! LOL That night we had way much more fun!
