Back to the Sound-Off Room
Sophie meets Hanson at their hotel London, June 16, 1998
We arrived back at the hotel at around 11:30pm anticipating to c our
fave guys. We were still VERY hyped after the concert and seeing
Hanson live was one of my biggest dreams.. so I was still feelin’ awesome.
Anywayz, we sat in the lobby for a while really about ½ an hr.. then
as I was about to show Amanda a really stupid, but funny, bird joke,
Bronagh says "[edited] he-- they’re here!".. So I quickly packed the
paper away into my bag and removed 3CG and a marker pen for them to sign.
We left the hotel lobby and stood up on the steps by the revolving
doors. This almost seemed like ritual now.. so we weren’t really
nervous.. it was just a natural thing to do- see our friends, the Hanson’s. :o)
We watched them step outta the van I looked at my watch and it was
12:02am we met them after midnite.. (*sigh*), and the rest of the
family too.. Ike and Zac came up the front steps and Zac had a lil
marker pen ready to sign stuff.. awww.
Ike said hello girls. We were like hiii. So Bro right away asked Zac
if he could sign her
MON music book and I watched him screw up his name.. hehe, cos he like
lost the balance of book.. so Bro had to put her hand under to keep it
stable for him... I honestly don’t know what happened after that cos all
this happened with me and Taylor.
Avery came up the slope first with their minder and other ppl I don’t
remember. I said ‘hi Avery’ and I asked her to shake my hand and she
did! She smiled and said hi too, then they went in.. AWW BLESS HER!!
She is so cute.
Taylor came along. (he was wearing his red leather jacket and TIIIIGHT
white lycra tee and his pecs were busting outta it, it was like an
Arnie chest.. no lies! He is so FIT! Yummy :oÞ) Anywayz Tay came after
looked at me and ummed and ahhhed. Then I smiled & said "c’mon Taylor
how many times have we asked u?" Tay smiled and said "ok, yea. I think
we can do that." He took 3 car garage off me right away without giving
me a chance to ASK 2 get it signed. :o) Anyways after he signed the CD Avie & he tried
to sneak away up the slope entrance, I didn’t let him tho.. *grin* So
I tapped him and said: Taylor can we have a picture please and he
kinda sleeve was still in the case, which I had broken literally 45
mins b4 they had arrived. So Taylor opened the case and it just fell
off.. so I tapped Taylor on his arm and said Taylor u broke my CD!
Hehe So then he said: "Yea I have a habit of doin’ that." Aww sweet. I
just smiled at him. He was asking for a pen off of Zac I was like no
Tay its ok I got one, so I took off the lid for him while he was
opening the case and I gave tha pen to him. So then he goes what's ur
name again? I said Sophie then I tapped him again (this musta been
annoying for him hehe) and I said "Taylor don’t u remember me? o yea!
did ya c us?" Then he said: "yea yea, we saw you." I’m like coool. So
then he asked me: "how do u spell that, s-o-p-h-i-e?" I said yea.. so
then he signed it ‘To: Sophie, best wishes’ underlined and then his
name it was then passed on to Ike I think. I really don’t know how Ike
and Zac got to sign it I do remember seeing Ike signing it tho but I
didn’t c Zac sign it.. then somehow I got the CD sleeve back to me.
Tay was still using the pen I gave him.. Then after that I think he
signed Amanda’s rail book and she was like, sorry I only have this
rail book but I don’t think he understood what she was chatting about.
So after my CD was signed I said to Ike and grabbed his arm gently,
can we please have a picture, I dunno if he heard me but all I
remember seeing was long curly locks all over his face he looked
sexeee. :o) I think this was going on while he was signing my CD and
then I asked their bodyguard to take the pic for us.. and he said:
noooo, nooo and grinned, I was like please. He still said no so I
kinda just gave up. :o(
So afterwards.. I remembered about the chicken shake I had given to
Walker 2 days b4 to give to Zac.. So I said: "Zac, Zac did ya get my
little blue egg shaped shaker thing? And he said "Yeah." So I thought
cool. I prolly said it but I don’t remember. Then Bronagh asked if
they had got her CD but they didn’t reply, prolly cos they didn’t hear
her. While all this was going on I was watching them sign some other
girls diaries and stuff. But it what was really cool, was Ike tay &
zac kinda crowded around me, bro and manda and these other 2 girls
were like behind them so all the guys did was just turn around a
little not fully.. they were still facing us the whole time! :o)
Then I wanted my dream to come true, seeing as I chickened out on
getting a hug off of Zac 2 days b4 that I thought I’m gonna get one
taday! So I then asked, Zac and I was like pointing to him, cos I think
he was signing sumthin’ I dunno. Then I goes "Zac can I have a hug?"
and without even hesitating, zac leaned forward and so did I cos there
were like 3 ppl in front of us and Zac gave me a big HUG! And he almost
strangled me, tha boy is strong, man! :o) We both used one arm.. cos
we had bags on each of our shoulders and he made noise kinda like
urrrrr-ur-ur.. The noise u make when u strangle sum1, hehe. It was
cool. Then I said "ah, strangle me!" Hehe! Then Walker said ok guys
we’re going in.. So Zac kinda pushed passed all of us and went in
alone and said "sorry guys we gotta go now.. c ya.. have a nice
evening".. etc etc he was saying stuff along those lines, I don’t
really remember exactly wot. I watched him the whole time walk into
the hotel, I was like bye Zac! He waved.. and then all I heard Bronagh
say was c’mon u got all ur ppl here. I’m not gonna kill u, at this
point I was still looking at Zac. :o) And then I just c her let go of
hug with tay! Awesome. So I thought well if she can get one, I can
too! Hehe. I was on a role dude.
So this was the end and they were all being ushered in, I said "Taylor
can I have a hug please?" ands he was like really hesitant.. cos they
bodyguard was pushing me away on my stomach and saying.. we’re going
in.. stay on this side bollox, bollox bollox.. so I’m like Tay
pleeeeease.. I put on the puppy dog face hehe. Still at this point I
had the stupid a-- bodyguard’s FAT arm in between me and Tay like a
barrier, like I was gonna kill him or sumthin for [edited] sake! Tay was
like pulling a face that meant ’I wanna do it but I’m not allowed’,
and he goes "we gotta go in.." I’m like please Taylor. So all of a
sudden he leant over the ‘barrier’ and hugged me with both arms!!
PPffftt.. I hugged him with 1 arm, my left cos I had my bag on my
other arm. Amanda said he like leaned down over me, I think I went on
tip toes, cos hes so damn tall! :oÞ And I rested my head on his right
shoulder, (on my left) and then they went in, it was like thanks, bye!!
And Ike went in after with all their ppl and walker etc. I was so
overwhelmed, these awesome feelings were just going thru me, I have
HUGGED TAYLOR & ZAC HANSON! It was mad.. but the best end to an
incredible day.. even tho we STILL didn’t get a pic. :o(
But those hugs DEFFO made up for it.. I love them!!
<3,~~Sophie :)
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