A mere 18 years ago I was a little girl. A little girl who was the biggest NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK fan. I listened to their TAPES non-stop and I couldn't wait to wake up on Saturday morning to see their videos on "Saturday Morning Videos" (no MTV or VH1 for us)! I had posters, t-shirts, jewelry, buttons, puzzles, board games, videos, stickers, Valentine's, piano books, notebooks, and a NKOTB stage complete with the 5 dolls. I actually still have most of these items but we won't go there!
So, 18 years ago my mother made all of my dreams come true when she bought me and my two sisters tickets to their concert. I was the happiest 11 year old on the planet!
A few years later the band broke up. I pretended like I didn't care because at this time I was a snotty junior high kid and it wasn't "cool" to like the New Kids. But... deep down I wanted them back!
Other bands tried to fill the void-- Boyz II Men, NSync, Backstreet Boys. But they were no New Kids in my book!
Because of my obsession with pop culture I was reading online one day and spotted a rumor that the New Kids were making a comeback. Could it really be??? Not only were they making a comeback, they were dropping a new album and GOING ON TOUR!!! The very second tickets went on sale Jaime and I got online to get our FLOOR SEATS (and we even talked our mom into coming with us).
As you can see from the pictures below... our seats were AMAZING. I felt like I was 11 all over again. We had so much fun. Natasha Bedingfield was the opening act which was a total bonus because I love her music!
Jordan was always my favorite New Kid. Still is too!
That's a funny shirt someone through to the stage. Donnie decided to wear it!!
This fuzzy picture is of Jordan leaning down to touch hands. I was rushing past Jaime and her camera to try to get up there. I wanted to touch his hand-- didn't happen, but close! Although, Jordan did wave at me and Jaime. SERIOUSLY. We were looking at him and waved and he looked RIGHT AT US and waved back-- no one else was waving at him so we know it was aimed at us!!!
Guess who else was enjoying the concert FOUR ROWS BEHIND US??? Little David Archuleta- what a cutie! We tried to go talk to him but security made us sit back down but we did get a couple pics! We're pretty sure he was the youngest one there (was he even born in 1990??)! :)
9 comments:
Jodi you are so funny. I can just picture you at the concert!!!
I would love to see all the NKOTB paraphernalia you own. That would be funny.
that looks like way too much fun!!!
so i already have tickets to Twilight for Thurs night AND Friday night , but I want to go with Warren later in that next week- What is Jared's schedule? We should go on a double? you in>?
Okay, well, I have news for ya.....they still aren't COOL!!! I'm still trying to decide if we can still be friends...I'm not sure so now that you have 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!
Yeah, we totally rock! (BTW, I'm stealing your post title, because that is really funny.)
I KNEW you would be going! Those are great seats and I know your mom secretly loves Jordan too.
you make me laugh...looks like you had some pretty good seats too!
It was beyond fun. . . Jodi hasn't lost any speed in running to get what she wants. When she saw that they were going to be only 4 rows behind us at the piano, she jumped over chairs and people like Superman and yelled at me to send Jaime to her - woo! hoo!
And Cammee, Jordan isn't my favorite, I liked the cute youngest one, he was a real hottie!!!
Jaime and Jodi kept saying that if Becky were there she would totally be the one out dancing in the aisles.
What a fabulous night! I did take a lot of flak when I suggested that we might want to leave 10 minutes early to avoid the crowd driving home - sorry, my bad!
LOL at Mom!! (Joey is pretty cute.)
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