What a blast. Colby O'Donis and Natasha Bedingfield opened the concert and they were super awesome! By the time Natasha was done I was sad and didn't want her to leave. I think I would like to be a rock star in my next life. She looked like she was having so much fun!
The New Kids put on such a crazy fun concert! I had no idea how much fun it would be to dance and scream to songs I knew 15 years ago!
Their play list included:
I'll be your boyfriend
The Right Stuff
Favorite Girl
Cover Girl-MY favorite, sung by Donnie
If You Go Away
Always stay the same
Jordan sang a few of his singles
Tonight
Click Click Click
Step by Step
THE ENCORE (best EVER)
Hanging Tough-Paul Pierce came out with the NBA Finals trophy and they broke out into "We are the Champions"
I don't think they have THAT at the rest of the concerts!!! The New Kids are obsessed with Boston and Donnie, my favorite, is the BIGGEST Celtics fan out there
Summer Time
Ready to go P-A-R-T-Y
The train ride to the concert was a blast. We saw this girl and were instant friends. I love Donnie too! I love you too hubby.
Up the escalator to our seats!
Natasha Bedingfield, love her!
Colby O'Donis
Oh, my gosh, here they come!
Ahhhhhh!!!! I had to stop jumping up and down to take this picture
Our SWEET tickets. We found out that Donnie Wahlberg himself picked out and bought them. More on that later...
And here they are, sweet outfits, sweet moves, sweet concert!
Crystal remembers this exact scene from the last New Kids concert she went to, Jordan singing "Baby I Believe in You", no shirt, wind in his face and lights behind him. 15 years later he still looks pretty good with that shirt off!
This was the funnest encore I've ever seen. The fans went crazy. They are so proud of their Celtics and we are so proud of their GM!
WEEEEEE Are the champions, my friends!
So when the concert was over, we went underground with our back stage passes and waited to be told where to go. We were told to go to the Legends Lounge where the New Kids would be greeting their family, friends and fans. We saw Jordan's wife and mom, we were sitting a few seats away from them. We saw Joey's cute wife and two kids, we saw Danny and his family and Jonathan and his family. And then we went to a cocktail table and met Donnie's two very good friends (Crystal recognized them from the Celtics games. Donnie is at every single game with these two guys) So we totally named dropped, "Hi, I'm Crystal AINGE and I'm Danny AINGE'S niece, is Donnie coming tonight?" They told us how much they loved Danny and then that Donnie was not coming but invited us to Nebo's Pizza after the Lounge, Donnie would be there. Um...we would love to but it's 1:00 AM and we have families to get back to. So we took stalker pictures of Jonathan, he was probably having a panic attack with all the people around him and went and found Joey. We didn't really care to meet Danny and Jordan was not there. So we went and found Joey and yes, named dropped again. Chatted for a minute and got our picture.
So cute. He was totally the Justin Timberlake of the 80's.
Jonathan. Not so into the fans. He told his parents and rest of his family to just meet him in the corner so they could leave. We just left him alone.
As we were leaving the lounge a very very drunk man saw me taking a picture an started some mall talk. We were like, yea yea yea, you're drunk, leave us alone and go back to the bar. He asked if we wanted his picture and we said, "why the heck would we want your picture?" THEN he told us he was Donnie's oldest brother and we were like , OHHHH, yes yes, lets take a picture. He called us the Angel girls and wanted to talky talk all night but we finally got him to shut up and left.
And then....just as we were walking out the door....I saw....DONNIE!!! Just him, all alone, no gobs of girlie fans all over him. He had come afterall!!!!! I literally yelled, Oh my gosh, it's Donnie!!! He looked up and then Crystal did her fabulous name dropping and he melted. He LOOOOVES Danny so he gave us both hugs and asked how are seats were, that he had wanted to put us in a good place where we could see the whole concert. I'm thinking "holy cow, he really DID pick out our tickets". I just kept saying, "Donnie, it was amazing" "Donnie, you've still got the moves!" "Seriously Donnie, it was the funnest concert I've ever been to". He kissed his hand and put it on our faces and walked into the lounge. And then we went nuts! We were so tired and our feet and back hurt and we didn't even care that it took an hour and a half to get home because we MET DONNIE!!
And that was it! The funnest night ever ended with the most fabulous, serendipitous moment ever!
12 comments:
How fun! What a great trip-no kids, shopping, old guys that sing and love you. I bet you feel like you are 11 years old again.
I am just laughing, laughing looking at all these photos. I bet you guys WERE the party. So fun! Uh, what did you say to "the guys"?
I can't wait to hear about the backstage experience :-)! Looks like SO much fun! I saw your kiddos at the gym this morning and it made me laugh a little picturing John wanting a break like we always do! Have a safe flight home!
I would have paid the price of a plane and concert ticket just to be able to sit behind you two and watch! I'm so glad you are having a great time. you really do have the greatest aunt and uncle (not to mention the rest of the family:)on the planet. love you! xoxo mom
I am so excited for you guys!! I bet it was as life changing as the playoffs were for Nate! The Ainges are probably the best hosts EVER!!! Love you and love the pictures....
HOW FUN! I love that you are getting a trip out of the concert as well. You are a hottie - I'm sure the guys were just drooling! :) I wish I was there partying with you.
I love it! And you tell the story so well!
Ah, you have made me so excited for the NKOTB concert I will be attending in like 2 weeks! I can't wait. I definitely won't have as good of seats as you, but I enjoyed looking over the play list to know what songs to practice! :) I have told everyone I have a feeling the litle 10 year old girl in me will be coming out that night. Glad you had fun, thanks for sharing you lucky duck!!!
You are a serious dork, but man I love ya! I watched the special on MTV tonight thinking you were there somewhere! PS Donny is the only one I could ever stomach! Nice work!
I never knew you were such the groupie! So fun!
mckell i can't stop laughing, you are craayzy and i can not believe you had backstage passes to a nkotb concert. was it surreal?!? i think i would have been too shy or something stupid like that and walked off. this is awesome and i'm kinda jealous. i might have to steal one of your pictures and post on my blog about being jealous. at least you looked good...i'm happy you had a fun trip!
Um, McKell, we SO need to talk NKOTB! The concert in Houston next week will be my 5th New Kids' concert and I totally met them this one time at an autograph session way back.....way the crap back a long time ago. Holy crow...you totally met them.
PS - My favorite was always Danny...and I was teased for it then and will probably get teased for it next week. But I love that monkey-faced man!
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