we got there maybe an hour or two before the doors opened since we still needed to get tickets and my mom said it was on a first come first served basis. there was already a good number of people waiting. and so we waited and waited. it was a good thing we went early because the line got super long. finally we got it. 
there was a lot of people there, it was so crowded. to be honest, i wish i could have just stayed home. it was just too much people and nothing that really interested me. plus, it wasn't really that well organized. but whatever, my mom wanted to go.
there were a bunch of booths to check out. reminded me of the tents they have at the maui county fair. anyway, most were filipino related ones. there were a couple of filipino based clothing companies. this one had a hawaii shirt. and another one had a dj playing music...but just to show how unorganized the event was, just two booth over was a radio station booth that also had a dj. talk about mega mash-up.
this one booth was for this new tv music channel called myx. their main attraction was they had rock band set up. i miss our little rock band parties...even though i suck at it, still mega fun. they had this drum off contest and this guy ended up winning. he got a 81% on expert level, though i can't remember what song it was to. he's prize was an i-pod touch, lucky.
on the main stage was were the performances took place. before the main "event," myx opened up the show with a couple of performers. the host was this filipino comedian, who was super funny. then there was this female filipino rapper, a rap duo, and their main performer...david hernandez from american idol. he sang two covers, j-mac's leavin' and ne-yo's closer. afterwards he came by the crowd to say hi and take photos. he seemed really nice.
there was another long wait till the main attraction. it took so long and everyone had been on their feet for hours already. again, proof of how badly put together this event was there wasn't even a seating area. i guess they rather cram as much people into the room than take up space with chairs.
it got a little too much for me towards the end and so i picked to hang back and sat on the floor. by the end of it...it was almost 12 hours into this "trip" and i couldn't handle it. luckily, my mom also felt it was time to go soon after that.my favorite part of it all...the food. and the best part, they had a beard papa's booth there with cream puffs. plus, towards the end they cut their prices. yum!
boy, was that a long day...
boy, was that a long day...till later.
the 3 cds i have.
this guy who runs an internet site, can remember off hand, anyway he was streaming live footage from the shoot the whole day. he also does this for concerts, pretty awesome. his friend he was with talked to me a little about it, sounds pretty sweet. anyway, this is nick and james showing off their lovely race outfits to the internet.
setting up the shoot for the big race. what are they racing for? who will win?
just look at those mega awesome short shorts. they all have chicken legs. ryan was the first to come out, it was amazing. nick was not feeling the look. at first pete was the only one not wearing converse, he noticed, and so he changed.
yay jon. so funny, that video he made for one of the girls' friend, haha. and he gives little kids lollipops, awesome! icu ryan, creeping in the background. 
right before the photo was taken james took off his head band so he'd look more normal. their orange (?) tree cast weird shadows on my face but james looks cute. then james lets us into their house. ok, how crazy is that, shot at their house. i mean who lets fans into their house? it was a little awkward, like i shouldn't be in there or something. oh but they had some awesome artwork on their walls.
tracked down pete. once again someone was charmed by my snake charmer shirt. just like parker from say anything, pete liked my style from my shirt down to my shoes. oh while inside, some of their guy friends were watching tv...and all i remember hearing was, "don't put it on dirty dancing" and "attack of the double D cups." oh and something about porn in the afternoon, hence the double d comment.
once back outside i found one of ryan's notes on the video. he was telling me before how they were doing the video all on their own. you could tell they'd be coming up with ideas on the spot from time to time. it was cool to know that runner runner was them working really hard to make things happen. ryan even said when they do their big budget video he's bringing us back to be in it, haha.
i also ended up finding this little note. i guess someone wrote in the "is gay" part. i thought it was funny for a non-obvious reason.
when i got to ryan for a picture he didn't have a shirt on. he asked if i minded. i jokingly said i guess it'll have to do. he talked about how his gf loves when there are shirtless photos of him, she's always wonders what's going on.
when nick and i meet up again he had already changed. told you he wasn't enjoying the look. funny in this photo we're sort of matching. i like how in the pictures with jon, james, and nick they too automatically threw up the peace sign with me. before the photo was taken nick sang a little to me, "josie's on a vacation far away..." cute. after taking photos nick hops on his little bmx bike and talks about how he got it on warped tour in chicago at walmart for cheap. i told him about j's tall bike and he told me how zack from all time low has a unicycle. then one of the girls asked if he's really zack's brother. a question that comes up a lot. he told us the story of how that got started - "you could be like my dad." haha. but nick already told me a part of the story after i had meet zack at atl's hawaii show in february. but i did find out from nick today how zack apparently did text him about meeting me that night...when i told zack at the show that i knew nick he said he'd tell him i said hi. i didn't think he would because why should he but i guess he actually did. how nice is that, i guess i can understand why people might really think they really could be brothers. 
