Wow that a weekend to remember, not sure how to start this but let's just say the cruise keeps getting better each time. Each day seemed to be crazier as the cruise was ending but let me start at the beginning.
Day One
October 26th 2013
My friend Amanda and I arrived pretty early which I didn't mind since I really wanted to see the boys go on the boat which worked out perfectly I ended up getting hello's from all of them expect AJ. After the boys went on we was able to get on the boat shortly after, we took photos and headed to the buffet since I was starving (didn't have breakfast) we also ordered the specialty drink of the day which contained run and I'm not a big fan of rum but I wanted the cup so badly so I just told myself to suck it up and drink it. AJ and Howie came in to get some food and they were mobbed, fans were surrounding taking photos, I happened to go over to AJ and just told him that I wanted to say hi, he looks at me, smile and says "how you doing babe" I said good and thanks, and let him be. After we got done eating we started walking out onto the Lido deck to go to our cabin and Brian and Leighanne was coming towards us to the buffet (poor guy was mobbed by fans) we just said hello to him and walked to our cabin to drop off our stuff, I actually loved our cabin we had more room than what I was used too and our cabin was on the same floor as the guys just opposite side.
Until the we had the mandatory drill we just walked around the boat, talked with other fans, made some new friends, saw some old friends as well. As we went to the drill I told people there is no safety on the boat as a joke because I said this is boring and I know it's important but really we wanted to was party can you blame us? During the seating for it my friend Kristi has found me and sat with me and we ended up being a tad loud but my friend was partly drunk LOL!!
The sail away party was fun we had a decent spot on the left side towards the stage we got to watch the boys come up from the down below and I thought they all looked sexy with their sailing suits on. I enjoyed watching the boys interact with us, having fun and being a tad dirty lol after it ended we watched the boys go back down the stairs (it was sort of their getaway thing). I showed Amanda around the boat since she's never been on one as we do we walked by the casino and long behold there was Howie walking down the stairs so of course we asked for a photo since he wasn't surrounded by a lot of fans there was about 6 of us total, he said of course but he did seem like in a hurry so I tried to be quick as possible when I asked. Amanda's photo didn't come out right so I knew Howie was at the elevator waiting so I slowly walked up and in my sweet cute way I told him that the photo didn't come out and if he could retake it and he said yes he was very sweet about it after the photo was taken I ended up thanking Howie again and I ended up trying to give him Amanda's camera and it took me a few seconds to realize what I had done and I had a embarrassed look on my face and I apologized to Howie and we both ended up laughing he touched/rubbed my shoulder telling me it's okay lol and he winked at me before we left. This is the most time I've ever had with Howie expect his event in 2004 in NYC and to be honest I was starting to love Howie more and more on this cruise!
We went to the dining room for dinner and I was very excited I find the dinning room food to be amazing and 10 time better than the buffet. I also ended up getting up and dancing with the servers for a few minutes which was fun but yet embarrassing because I can't dance but it was in all in fun and that's the whole point but damn some of those servers can get very low ;)
We went to look at the mechanize and sadly I didn't get anything my budget wasn't even enough so afterwards we headed back to the cabin to put up our door decorations also to freshen up and get ready for the neon glow party (thanks Casy for helping, also thank you to Paul for helping me with the lights) we had to be ready by 9:30pm for Are You Smarter Than A Backstreet Boy, while waiting the boys did perverted things on the screen and I couldn't help but laugh my head off and I wish I would of recorded it. When they drew names it came close for me they said Shannon but not my last name lol so yes we freaked for a second lol. I thought this game was a lot of fun it shows the boys doesn't know themselves much as we thought they did JK lol. Brian also had a small bouncy ball he played with a lot and one point it got lost and he started fake crying and such it was cute/funny. He was throwing the ball to the fans sort of like playing catch and he threw it to me at one point and I caught it but I didn't do a good throw because honestly didn't want to hit him so I made a bad throw on purpose so he did miss it LOL (If Brian even remembers from the event when he did the dunk booth, I have a pretty good arm, since I dunked him 3 times)
After the event we headed to the to Lido deck for the first theme night which was "Don't Put Out The Glow Neon Party" thanks to the boys we had free drinks for a hour the drinks were amazing the blue one was my favorite. I stood close by and took a few photos and as crowd kept moving I ended up towards the center (this is where I lost Amanda and Casy) ended up getting to see Nick, smile and touched his hand along with many other girls, Brian also came down and was giving out glow sticks and he saw me and ended up smiling at me saying hey and handed me one which made me smile. Nick and AJ started crowd surfing and crowd around me was getting more intense so I ended up squeezing my way out while Brian was crowd surfing and as I exit I ended up having to help Brian over us and other fans around me couldn't hold his weight but I was trying very hard but didn't realize at the time I was trying to do so by having his butt in my hands LOL he tells us/me to set him down and as we do he turned right at me, looks at me with a smile and tries to tells something in my ear but I ended taking my hand and moving his face to tell him I need to read his lips so he did and he told me "you hit the right spot" I laughed so hard and was like no way I wasn't trying to go anywhere near your butt just trying to hold u up LOL we ended up having a good laugh that warmed my heart, he pulled me into a hug I told him thank you, so with fans around us surrounding I happened to later on the other side saw Leighanne taking photos and signing so I stood and waited which felt like forever but I asked Leighanne if I could get a photo with her and Brian since it would be easier she said she'll try and while waiting for a little longer Brian finally came by and I was able to get our photo, and Brian took it and the first one and he looked at it and I asked if it would be too much to do another one just a funny one and he said sure and we did a funny one which turned out to be awesome, Brian, Leighanne and I did talk very shortly about Twitter mishap and a few other things that I can't remember now but I know it was quick since they were trying to get to everyone and eventually I squeezed my way out so others can have their turn and it was hard to get out since no one wanted to move and lose their spot which I don't blame them at all.
Went to try and find my friends but I was on cloud nine so I wasn‘t paying much attention what was going on in front of me. As the night went on I just mostly walked around and just enjoyed what was happening around me, saw more friend's but I have to admit I didn't watch the boys too much esp. up on the balcony part. Later on in the night I ended up standing with this crowd to see what was going on and shortly later Nick came out and I said hello he smiled and said hi to me, I read Mikes lips stating no photos so in meantime I found Amanda and we headed back to our cabin and as we do we happened to see Nick but didn't bother him I just took a photo but he did smile at us. We were in our cabin with the door open for a little bit waiting to use the restroom Nick walks by looks at our door decoration, makes eye contact with me while I was on my bed in my cabin, he flash a quick smile and I just stayed still and so glad I wasn't doing something stupid or embarrassing lol! No idea what he was doing but all I know is fans kept following him and he went into the elevator, so therefore I headed back to my cabin got ready for bed and crashed on the pillow with a smile on my face.
