Reunion: Tampa edition

Okay, so here is the story......

Saturday: celebrated Coens birthday snuggling in bed and going to his fave restaurant, Sir Pizza. They than drove me to the airport. Arrived in Tampa and Terri picked me up and drove me to the swanky Hyatt downtown to my super cheap $86 room, thanks Hotwire. Juli and Sarah drove in from New Orleans and we all stayed the night at the hotel....

Sunday: Morning of show. Woke up at 6:30 and headed to the venue, but the busses beat us in. Headed to Dennys for some breakfast and coffee. Went back the hotel to check out and browsed the web for info...Ticketmaster decided to screw us again and released floor tickets, row 17, damn you. Sarah was on the phone forever trying to exchange our tickets, when i decided screw it, and bought them. We now had extra tickets so we called Erin to meet us. We headed to the venue to begin the all day curb sitting/bus watch. Around lunch time Joe came out with his family and walked around talking to everybody. We followed the white van when it left and caught Joe on the streetcorner outside Hooters, waiting for his fam. we left him there and followed the bus, which we thought held Donnie. We followed the bus to Target, but it turned out to be their assistant Zack some dancers and Donnies brother.

So we ended up back at the venue. Over the afternoon all the guys trickled out, and my camera, or as Erin so lovingly named it Hubble, caught all the action. Jordan gave us a little dance, Danny waved, Jon ran for cover and Joe returned from lunch walking thru the crowd and getting his son Griffin to "wave to the ladies." Super cute. Natasha Bedingfield came over and talked to us as did the guys bodyguard Robo, who confitmed a summer tour. Snap.

So everyone was getting impatient because Mr Face Time Wahlberg had yet to emerge. So we decided at 5:00 we would leave. At exactly 5:00 Donnie decided to emerge from his bus. He waved and patted his chest, and more importantly dropped pants and mooned us. Nice....

We headed to our new hotel The Westin and got ready for the show.....we got there right on time and made our way to our now row 17 seats....smokin.....The show was awesome and once again we headed to the B stage, where we were pushed literally to the front. During the B stage most of the guys paused in front of me to pose for photos, and last but not least Donnie made his way over. He stopped in front of me, pointed at me and posed. I took the shot, mouthed "Thank you." He mouthed back "Your welcome." I looked over at Sarah and she stood there mouth open, and was like "Donnie so just talked to you." I started, smoothly, to scream and jump up and down. She calmed me down, and nearly got in a fight with some guy who kept grabbing her ass and rubbing his Peen against here.....

So after the show we headed back to the busses and caught Joe "leaving" with his fam....we followed a van, and ended up back at the hotel. We went back and forth after raiding a minimart and eventually hung it up around 3am. We didnt stay too long at the venue since they hadnt been coming over and we were staying at the same hotel, needless to say i found out Donnie did come out and hug everybody around 2:30, dang....

We had a blast, crashed, and got up so Sarah could go to work.I chilled with Jules and Terri for awhile than flew home.....It was a great show, I had my moment with Donnie, and got to hang with Erin.....

Cant wait for the summer.........