Cruise Highlights!
I know I usually type things like a story, but there is WAY TOO much to remember and write about, so you get a list of highlights this time!!! Some have little stories with them, but I think you get the picture!!!
Friday:
· Watching the guys arrive at the port! Seeing Danny get out of the car with his daughters. Watching Jon, Joey, Jordan, & Donnie get off the bus.
· Getting a Donnie hug as he walked up the line of fans standing there!
· Stepping onto the boat, not knowing at all what to expect for the weekend!
· Seeing the huge posters hanging in the middle of the atrium with the guys, and knowing this was going to be the BEST weekend ever.
· Decorating our door!! NKOTBopoly!! It came out better than I could have even imagined. All the hard work on that game paid off, because people really seemed to like it!! Someone wrote on our door that they wanted to buy the game! J SCORE!!! We didn’t win the contest though, but that’s ok! My girl Audra won!! J YAY!!!
· Muster drill at our muster station (aka the masturbation station). Our muster drill guy was hysterical!! Posing in the life jacket! Thank god we didn’t have to bring our life jackets….one less thing to worry about! Standing at the top of the stairs waiting for the drill to be officially over so we can make a mad dash to the lido deck for a good spot for the Sail Away Party!
· MAD DASH TO THE SAIL AWAY PARTY!! The crew coming out from the Lido deck jumping out of the way as a huge group of running blockheads was heading straight for them to get that good spot on the lido deck!!!!
· Standing on top of the hot tub during the sail away party, being able to see the guys really well!!
· Donnie and Danny dancing on the hot tub across from us! J
· Jordan making the boat horn noise! over and over and over again!
· Group A Game Show! HYSTERICAL!!! I LOVE drunk Jon!!!!!
o The guys making fun of the girls for not knowing any answers
o Donnie dancing behind the screen
o Shadow puppets (I believe it was Jordan making those!)
o Jon saying that Tiffany would sing “I think we’re alone now” to him in the bedroom!
o Poor Danny, most of the answers to his questions were wrong!
o Joey and Jordan putting their hands over the mic and talking as if they were taking orders at a drive through.
o Jon telling the crowd that what happens in this room, stays in this room…..sorry Jon, not so much! Youtube, here we come!!!
o All the other random moments and all the laughing that happened! I can’t even begin to remember it all!! SOME FUNNY SH*T in that room!!
· Casino Royale Night ~ some CRAZY DRUNK DEBAUCHERY!!! (much of it will be left on that boat!!!“What happens on board, stays on board!”)
o NKOTB in tuxedo’s ~ HOLY HOTNESS!!!! (hope my girls got some good pics, cuz I was kinda drunk and really far back from them!)
o OPEN BAR ~ Enough said!
o Dancing on the stools next to the pool, having my feet slide off, falling on my butt on the stool, then falling off the stool onto my back on the ground! NUMEROUS times, because the 1st time it happened wasn’t enough to keep me from getting back up there many times!!
o Jordan, Donnie, & Joey dancing on the platform in the middle of the pool
o Joey performing “Here we go again” on the platform and taking his shirt off! HOT!!
o Hanging out and dancing with Danny’s dad!
o Drunken debauchery in the hallways! Pizza in the buffet at around 4am…followed by passing out at the table apparently!! LOL! Carin had to wake me up when it was time to go back to the room!
o bedtime: 5:30am
Saturday
· Half Moon Cay
o Woke up at 8:30am (yay for 3 hours of sleep!!) ~ oh and yeah, I was hungover!!
o BEACH PARTY!!
o Spending the day in the ocean with my girls!!
o The GRAND BOAT ENTRANCE of the guys!! Right up through the crowd!!
o Watching as the guys try to get back down to the water to swim and seeing JON & JOEY dart off to the right from the crowd, SHIRTLESS into the water!!!!!
o Highlight of the day: SWIMMING WITH JON KNIGHT!!!! My 1st picture and meeting with him is in the water!!!!!! I cried after meeting him!! I knew I would!!!! I told Jon it was my birthday this weekend, the same day as Jordan, and he said “awesome, so tomorrow.” I said “no, Monday” and he was like “oh wait! What day is today!?” I told him the 15th!
o Watching the limbo contest, and Jordan participating.
o Watching “tourist Jon” as he took pictures and documented much of the day!
o Watching the guys exit the same way they came in. Grabbing Jordan and Donnie’s hands as they walked by!! J
o The fact that I got MAJOR SUNBURN doesn’t even matter!! The day was AMAZING!!!
· Pajama Party
o Had a much better spot for seeing the guys perform up in VIP!
o TOGA’S on the guys!!!!!! HOT!!!!!!!!!
o Meeting Jimmy Marsh and getting a picture with him.
o Watching Jon sing three songs in a row with Donnie and Danny!!!
o Chanting “Jon Knight! He’s a freakin’ pimp y’all!” after he sang!
o Leaving the party after Jon signaled he was going to bed. Running into him at the bottom of the staircase on his floor. He held my hand, said goodnight and kissed me on the cheek. Oh that scruffy cheek!! I LOVE HIM!!!
o Seeing Danny come off the elevator, and saying goodnight to all of us as he walked by to go to his room!
o Joey Joe, stopping by on his way downstairs, gave a few hugs, signed a few autographs….I was not one of the lucky ones, but that’s ok!!
o Bedtime 4:30am!! (Early night, LOL)
Sunday
· Day at sea:
o Woke up at 9:30 (5hrs of sleep!! woo!!)
o Sunburn hurting a whole hell of a lot more!!!!
o Due to the sunburn I had to where a little sweater over my dress for the photo op…cuz there was no way in hell I was going to have that much redness in my picture!!
o Cluster f*ck that was trying to get a group of 10 for the photo op! We wound up with 11 people in our group! (3 random girls we didn’t know completed our group)
o Giving Jon Knight a hug and sitting in the chair next to him….then realizing by the time the photographer was snapping our picture that I was with Jon ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!!SQUEEEEE!!!!! (Yup, I cried again!!)
o Watched a little of my girls playing in the poker tournament! YAY SHAUNA for making it to the final table and beating Donnie Wahlberg!! (He came in 5th, she came in 4th!) Wish I had seen part of that final table!
o Walked around the ship for a bit, was walking near the pictures that Carnival takes all the time, when we heard someone say “hey Jon”. I turned to see Jon standing right next to me!He said hi, and I got another hug from him! Bodyguard gets snippy with us and tells us no pictures and not to follow him….ok, well we were in front of you, but whatever! LOL!! Jon looked at some pictures and we kept walking back to the casino.
o We walked toward the café, where we saw Jon ordering coffee….we stood there for a minute before deciding to just sit down at a table to decide what we wanted to do. It was lunch time, but we weren’t hungry and the line for D*Dubs Live Bikini Boat Backrub was pretty long already (first come, first serve) so we didn’t know if we wanted to really stand in the line. We were sitting there talking when Jon came over to the counter next to us to get sugar and stuff for his coffee.
o He shifted the fourth chair at our table, and instead of walking past it like we thought he was going to do, HE SAT DOWN AT OUR TABLE!!!!!! We had coffee with Jon Knight!!! It took all my will power not to fall off my chair while he was there. We talked about my birthday again, he asked me how old I was going to be. I told him 27, and Carin told him he wasn’t supposed to ask a girl how she’s going to be. He said he always asks! I wish we could have gotten pictures, but if he started with us, he had to give them to everyone around…and he had places to be. We totally understood. Although Harley was filming part of our conversation with Jon…wish I could get my hands on that footage! LOL!
o After Jon left, I fell out of my chair and cried again!!! I was just an emotional wreck when it came to Jon!!!!!
o Stood in line with some new friends for D*Dub’s live backrub.
o Watched as some girls got kicked out of line for fighting (DRAMA!!!!) Yay for security taking care of that situation!
o THE LIVE BIKINI BOAT BACKRUB ~ ummmm……yeah…..no words!!!Except….DIRTY!!!!
§ Watching Donnie drop the bathrobe off him to reveal his boxers briefs hanging out of his pants! Hello marshmallow!!!
§ Champagne, chocolate covered strawberries
§ I will never look at a banana in the same way EVER again!!!
§ Crunchy Kevin giving a girl a lap dance in a speedo….disturbing!
§ Donnie getting a backrub from a fan, who told him that he needs to take his shirt off…..he was SHOCKED!!!!!! But he obliged!! OFF CAME THE SHIRT!!
§ Listening to Maxwell’s “This Woman’s Work” live with Donnie standing in front of 400 women telling us how much he loves us, and that he does the backrub every week to show us how much he loves us! He cried! I cried! We all cried!!
o Concert
§ Couldn’t really see anything due to our seats. People were standing on chairs trying to see….I eventually gave up trying to see, because I will see the show on Friday at Foxwoods! Just enjoyed sitting there enjoying listening to them perform!
§ Joe telling us that he was wearing glasses because the sea-sickness patch was making his eyes bug out. Jordan confirmed that one of Joe’s eyes really was bugging out!!He said it was creepy! Joe said he also wanted to be like Donnie!
§ JON SINGING STEP 5!!!! The guys singing “step 5” three times before Jon would sing loudly, “don’t you know that the time has arrived”!! I really hope that someone was able to sneak footage of that, because they were making people stop recording videos!
o White Night Party
§ Brought my sign that I made (“It’s my birthday too!)
§ Jon and Danny were on the VIP deck 1st
§ Jon announced to the crowd that the others guys would be up shortly. Donnie was in the poker tournament, Joey was watching it, and from what I hear, gave Donnie a backrub during it, LOL! Jon told us when the other guys came out, we were going to “ROCK THE SHIT OUT OF THIS BOAT UNTIL THE SUN COMES UP!”
§ The reason I was glad I didn’t go to the Poker tournament……….The 2nd time Jon came back over near the DJ table, I held up my sign. Jon saw it, pointed at me, blew me a kiss, and said “Happy Birthday” to me! I blew him a kiss back, mouthed “thank you” and proceeded to scream and jump up and down that Jon had seen me! A minute later he looked at me, pointed at me, and signaled for me to come closer to the railing. So I went over and stood under the railing where he was while he reached into his pocket, crumpled something up, and dropped it down to me! VIP WRISTBAND!!!!!!!!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Jon Knight had just invited me up to VIP!!!!!
§ In all honesty, I was just happy that Jon had seen me, blew me a kiss, and said happy birthday to me!! NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS would I have thought he would invite me up to VIP!!!
§ Carin got into VIP too that night!!
§ The one downfall to VIP was that pictures were not allowed to be taken, apparently because of something that happened the 1st night….not gonna start rumors, but I was disappointed about that fact.
§ While up in VIP:
· Saw Jon as he was coming back from “performing” with the guys on the deck. ~ Thanked him for the VIP bracelet, he said “you’re welcome,” gave me a hug/kiss, and said Happy Birthday to me!
· Donnie ~ gave me a hug/kiss, and said Happy Birthday as he walked by with security!
· Danny said hi to everyone as he came through the crowd.
· Enjoyed dancing and watching the guys from the VIP deck. It was a little surreal being up there! To be that close to the guys as they hung out with fans, and went about their business.
· When Joe came over near us, he said a “Happy birthday” to me and a hug.
· Jordan (my birthday buddy) was hugging fans near us, when someone said “Jordan, it’s her birthday!” Jordan looked at me, saw my birthday tiara, got a big smile, opened his arms up and pulled me into a big hug, saying Happy Birthday to me. I told him “same to you”, and kissed him on the cheek. He kissed me on the cheek back.
· The drummer (drawing a blank on his name) saw my tiara and asked if it was my birthday! I said yes, he gave me a big hug/kiss, and then announced to the girl he was standing with that it was my birthday! I saw him like 20 minutes later with a new friend, and he pointed me out and shouted “IT’S HER BIRTHDAY!!”
· Jimmy Marsh pointed at my tiara and said “I like this! Happy Birthday!”
· Got another hug from Jon later in the evening as he was walking by.
· Danced the night away with some new BH SISTERS that I had met throughout the weekend who were also lucky enough to get into VIP!!
· Watched the cutest moments between the guys and their friends & fans!!
· The last time I saw Jon up on the deck (around 4:00ish), I wanted to ask him to sign the sign that got me up into VIP….so I called out his name, and he looked toward me. He got a HUGE smile on his face, opened his arms up really wide, and yelled (and I mean yelled) HAPPY BIRTHDAY as he wrapped his arms around me!! I said thank you, and asked him if he would sign my sign. He said “oh sure, do you have something to write with?” I gave him the sharpie. He asked what my name was, I told him Melissa. He started to write my name, saying it out loud as he was spelling it “M-E-L-L” Oops “no I only have one L” I say to him. He says something like “Oh drunk spelling!” and we laugh. I start to tell him that he could turn the extra L into an I, but I’m too late, because he is already writing I-S-S-A. He then goes to the next line, and makes a dash….I have no idea at the time what he is doing. He also writes “one L”. Then he writes “All the Best! Jonathan”When he finishes writing it, he hands me back my sharpie and points to the words he wrote as he read them back to me “To Melissa, minus one L. All the Best! Jonathan.” The dash he wrote was a minus symbol!! BEST AUTOGRAPH EVER!! LOL!! I say Thank you, and he gives me another hug and kiss and tells me to have fun! DRUNK JON IS AWESOME!!! J
· Then drunk Donnie comes through the crowd and I ask him to sign my sign, which he does. It just looks like a scribble, but you gotta love how Donnie signs things! LOL
· Carin and I stay in VIP dancing for a little longer. The Black Eyed Pea’s song “I gotta feeling” comes on and as we are dancing to it, I change the words to say “I gotta feeling that tonight is the best f*cking night!” One of the security guys looks at me and laughs. He says “That’s awesome!”
· We left VIP around 5:15am….4 outta the 5 guys had already left. Donnie was the only one left and he was busy singing NK songs for the 8 millionth time that weekend. We still had to pack our suitcases, and take our door décor down, so off we went back to the room! It was bittersweet to pack everything up and take down the door that we had worked so hard on and to realize that the cruise was “officially over”
Monday
· We didn’t sleep, instead, showered, and went to have breakfast on the lido deck before grabbing our stuff and hanging out on the lido deck waiting for them to call our floor to disembark. It was sad to step off that boat, especially on my birthday, but it had started out to be an amazing one!!
· headed to the airport where we hung out, flipping through pics and watching videos on the camera while waiting to officially check in for my flight. We met some other blockheads at the airport, and saw many sleeping on their suitcases.
· When I boarded my flight there were like 6 other BHs around me….I didn’t talk to any of them because I passed out shortly after getting on the plane. It had been 32 hours since I had slept, and I needed that 2 hour nap that I got on the flight.
· Got home, showed off pics/stories/videos with the roomie and was up until 1am!! 2 hours of sleep in 2 days!!It was sooooo worth it!!
OVERALL GENERAL WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:
· Meeting sooooo many amazing BH sisters!! Some that I knew through twitter and some not!
· dancing each night away on the lido deck with my girls!
· seeing the guys in such a relaxed atmosphere, fully enjoying the love of the fans around them!
· Finally meeting Jon Knight!! EVERY SINGLE moment I had with him will be treasured forever!!!!
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