2:45 PM
Carly, Alicia, my mom and I arrive at Thomas and Mack...The place is crowded! It is nothing like the day before. When we parked we were warned by some girls returning to their cars that security wasn't allowing any cameras in and that they were checking for them. So we decide not to try and take any so we leave them in the car.
The line was soo long to get in due to the checking of bags and the checking in of cameras. As we were standing in line, low and behold who do we see pull into the parking lot? Winter and Meredith. Because my mom came, we ended up with only one extra ticket. After they got up to the box office area and they were looking around and talking to people, Carly and I approached them and started to talk with them. They showed up late on Saturday that is why we didn't see them. They still didn't have any tickets at all for the basketball game, so I offered our extra ticket since were weren't going to do anything with it. They thanked us and said that they would see us inside.
Both teams were practicing when we got to our seats....Carly and I were five rows from the floor and under the basket...My mom, my sister and Meredith were a row up and a few seats over from us. Meredith told us to come to the Fan Bus after the basketball game and they had some tee shirts for us. I saw the same girl that I always see at Nsync event we chatted (again) and wished them a safe trip home.
The national anthem was sung by 3rd Storee...It was REALLY good. They chose a good time to shine with all those managers, singers and producers present.
The first half was good. Some highlights include Jermaine Dupri and Frankie Muniz guarding each other and Britney and Lance guarding each other. Almost too soon, it was time for the halftime preformances...
Dante Thomas- Sang two songs. Fly and Miss California. Finally after seeing Dante preform three times this time I knew some of the words to his songs. Carly and I were the only people in our section getting into the music. The camera guys walking around came over to us and finally the whole section cheesed it up.
Luducris- Sang two and a half songs. He started with 'What's Your Fantasy' and the whole crowd started singing! Really high energy going in the building. Too funny to see the guys of Nsync not only singing along to the song, but also doing some of the dance...well the dirty part...Next came a little bit of his new song, 'Area Codes'. That song is soo funny..."I got hoes..I got hoes...In different area codes..." Anyway the crowd really wasn't feeling it. Then he decided to 'throw them 'bows''.
"Southern Hospitality" was the best. Even though Carly didn't know the song, we were both feelin' it. It was funny cause when it got to the chorus, Justin and Chris were "throwin' them 'bows'" too. My sister was doing the elbows dance too and suddenly Luducris ran up to her and started to dance with her. Some girl tried to push her out of the way but my sister was like "HELL NO BITCH" and pushed her away. Too bad that we didn't have a camera...my mom was laughing because she had no clue who this guy was and he was dancing with my sister right next to her. Luducris ran back down the stairs and danced in a few other sections and soon he went in the middle of the dance floor and a bunch of the celebrites went out to 'throw them 'bows'"
The second half was much like the first half. The crowd was funny...during one point they started to sing the "oh oh oh oh's" of the NKOTB song, 'The Right Stuff', pretty funny to see Jordan Knight's face during that. A little while later (for some strange reason) the crowd started to chant "We Want Lance"...which is funny because his team was down over 10 points and there was like 2 minutes left in the game...Lance was not gonna be beneficial to his team, but since the crowd wanted it the crowd got it. Lance's team did end up losing, even though they were over 20 points ahead before the game started because of the win in the scavenger hunt. So anyway the Knights won. Time for us to go home
We waited out at the bus for a long time before Winter and Meredith showed up. In the meantime, Carly and I were standing by my car, next to the fan bus when a girl came up and complimented us on our nsyncstudio lanyards...Then she introduced herself as Nicole...the OWNER of NSYNCSTUDIO! We chatted with her for a while, and she gave us a couple of the Bigger Than Live movie posters and some stickers too. Also we met a girl who works for the Nsync tour in merchandise. She was really cool, I wish I remembered her name! She told us a lot of things that we didn't know...and helped us fill in some of the blanks for the weekend...
7:15 PM
Finally time to start driving home...ByeByeBye Las Vegas....Hopefully we will see you again soon...
Monday, July 30th, 2001
4:30 AM
Road to Celebrity complete.