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Alicia's SF Planet Hollywood Experience
July 15, 1998
Sketches done by Alicia.
 This summer was the first time I finally got to see them
play live for the first time. I first went to see them play in Wash.
D.C. (only a 4 hour drive from my house in New Jersey). The concert was
great! I only had lawn seats, but who could really be sad about that
cause, the guys you love so much are only a few hundred feet away
singing like you've never heard them before. (It gets better) Well,
seeing them once wasn't enough. I talked my parents into taking a trip
to San Francisco and going to the concert on the 15th. So we went on
that long (almost six hour) plane ride to CA. We were staying for a
week, and planned our vacation around the concert. I even went to that
redwood forest that was in the TTMoN video. But anyways I rememberd
that my friends got in at a press conference before the concert in Wash.
D.C at Planet Hollywood, and I wondered if there was going to be one
here too. Well, there was one, and I HAD to go to it!
 At the press
conference, it didn't feel like it was real. There was Hanson, not even
10 feet away from me. It was like looking at the pictures covering my
bedroom walls. (here's the good part) I made a little sign (hoping to
catch someone's attention) it said "I saw Hanson in Wash. D.C., and Now
I Traveled 2500 Miles To See Them Again!". During the press conference,
the head lady of the whole thing that was standing behind Hanson telling
which reporter could ask a question, saw my sign. She pointed me out to
EVERYONE! The next thing I new was that Ike, Tay and Zac were all
looking at me! (I had totally forgot about the press cameras which were
looking at me too). I was like oh my God! Tay's making eye contact with
me!!!  Tay said, "Wow, Thats really cool". Ike was like, "I wouldn't even
do that". Then some press guy asked Hanson why someone would do that
just to see them (meaning me). And Tay said, "Why dont you ask her." I
tried to answer, but everyone started screaming. After it was over, I
went to my mom, and I had to make sure that it had really happened and I
wasn't just dreaming. Out of the 100 or so girls that were there, I was
the only one pointed out! And I also had three framed sketches of the
guys that I had wanted to give them. I ended up giving them to some
manager that said she would give them to Hanson. I really hope they got
them. Later that night I went to the concert. Once again, I had lawn
seats. But that afternoon definately made up for it! And guess
what!?! I'm going to see them for the third time at Hershey, PA!
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