Wandering Aimlessly

The sun is coming up. Yes. This is insane. I'm exhausted and yet not tired. If that makes sense.

Tonight was Night Two. In my opinion, tonight was FAR better than last night. First, we got smart and went in the doors by the Kiss thingy, which was a mass of people and not a long-ass line, so we got in in about 5 minutes rather than 35. We saw NSB2, which was so cool! They're such cute little men. Also stayed in the arena for Tony tonight. He sounded good, even though I didn't know the songs he played. I got my picture taken with him, which I felt dumb doing, but whatever.

I just can't get over how much more into it all everyone (the boys, the audience, everyone) was tonight. Chris seemed much more like himself. He rambled quite a bit about how this crowd was louder than last night's. JC's mom was there, so JC was absolutely adorable. His "story" tonight was much funnier than last night's because Joey wouldn't leave him alone. They were all ragging on him about the boring story he told last night, and Joey rubbed his towel all over JC's head, pushed his head, and then when he was supposed to finish the song, someone said they'd have to "punish" JC and Joey took that to mean spank, so he gave him a few whacks on the behind. JC was cracking up. I LOVE it when he *really* smiles, and we got a lot of that tonight.

Backing things up just a little, Aarti got this kick-ass ticket directly next to that outside-the-pit runway thingy, second row. So I am a horrible, horrible person. I would be pissed at me if I wasn't me, but I ditched Tammy, Dorothy, and my poor little sister, left them back in section 8, and squeezed into Aarti's seat with her. And I really do mean that I'd be mad at me. It wasn't nice. =( BUT the view was AWESOME, I think I got some wonderful pictures (hopefully) and I didn't want to see the show from the *exact* same place twice.

There was this one time when the catwalk was down, and Justin was singing directly in front of us and Chris was off to the left (not singing at the moment). EVERYONE was screaming at Justin, and I looked over at Chris, smiled, and gave a little wave. He smiled back and winked. Can't know for sure if it was at me, particularly, but I swear, EVERYONE was focused on Justin.

Oh, backing up even more, when we went IN to the arena, Tammy, Dorothy, Jess and I headed down to our seats and Aarti was just going to cross the floor to her seat, but they wouldn't let her. (Aarti, mind if I tell this story? Heehee too late) They made her walk around. So what happens? She runs smack-dab into Tony Lucca. Like, both of them were completely surprised. And who is behind Tony but five little puppies following in a line. So of course, while I'm at Aarti's seat hearing this story, apparently Johnny was hanging out by the Friends and Family fence. And of course, none of my group knew who he was!! Things like this are lost on the wrong people.

Fast forward until after the show. (Chronological order is NOT my strong point at this hour.) We never did find that usher to see where their after party was, and honestly, we NEVER would have gone. Never. There is ONE club in Chicago I have ever been to, and it's nice. We like it. We were going to go there last night, but were too exhausted. Aarti emails with one of the bouncers sometimes, so we got on the list (which didn't end up working anyway, after midnight, but whatever). Anyway, so we went. At first, I didn't want to. I had ditched my sister at the concert and then sent her home with Dorothy because Jess is not 21. Then fearing the wrath of my mother (which I am still afraid of... eeek. I was the WORST sister EVER tonight. <.sigh>), I almost turned around. But we really were in the mood to go dancing. So we went.

We were hanging out a while when we heard that there was a private party upstairs. There's ALWAYS a private party upstairs. A lot of the people there were a bit older than the usual crowd, though. So we asked one of the waitresses who was upstairs. WHAT WOULD BE OUR LUCK??? (Since we NEVER have luck, obviously the story doesn't end here, but...) *NSYNC. Yeah, folks, we stumbled upon *NSYNC's after party COMPLETELY by mistake. Who would have thought? Seriously! I'm still kind of stunned that it happened. I knew the club was nice, and it's the kind of place I could picture them in, but I never would have guessed in a million years that out of ALL the clubs in Chicago, the ONE I go to would be the one. Crazy! There are a couple levels of VIP rooms there. We (or Aarti, and we followed) flirted our way into the lower VIP room, but were unsuccessful at getting into the upper. Grrrr. They never came down, either. Security was TIGHT, man. Oh well. We were in the same building, again. Lol. Only three there. ALL of Joey's friends were there (we recognized them from last night), so we assume Joey was there. A girl we were walking out with when they closed down the place was squeeling about having danced with JC. So HE was there. And Aarti thinks the third was Lance. That's what some security guards told her. The real kicker is that we needed to feed the meter twice. I went out the first time, she went out the second. For some reason, all the Italian security guards just fell in LOVE with her. They offered to take her up to the VIP room (but this was as the club was closing... we had already been ushered out along with everyone else... somehow Aarti got back inside). Then they tried to talk her into going with them and Joey's friends, but we were outside, freezing, without coats OR car keys, so she had to kindly decline. (Thanks, Aarti!!)

So, that was that. Carolyn, I did find out where their after party was. Mission partly accomplished. I did not meet anyone, nor did I offer sympathy for Chris in the loss of Busta. =( Let's all take a moment of silence for Busta. Sad!! Oh, and C, did you get my message? I couldn't hear a darn thing, so I just held the phone up and hoped that it was working. Lol. And after a while, it hung up on its own. So I don't know if you got anything, how long it was, if you could make it out, or anything, but I tried!! =)

Oh, yes. Another long post. I need sleep. Look at that, it's after 5 and it's almost completely light out. Lol. I bet my parents will be up soon. Maybe I'll be more coherent in the morning and I will remember some more cute moments for you all.