Step One: We Can Have Lots of Fun

Last night, as a kick off to the Irvine/Vegas countdown, five of us got together - me, my NKOTBFF, Nikki, Robin, and Davie. We got together to laugh, have some cocktails, watch the old videos, and enjoy each other's company. I don't think any of us expected to have so much fun. Who would have thought, all those years ago, that we would be back, hanging out with our girlfriends and obsessing over the New Kids On The Block all over again? This time with booze and dirty talk.

I know I have said quite a lot about how much fun this reunion ride has been for me. Well, last night just cemented it. I don't think we stopped laughing all night. Whether it was over what to put on a sign or what to say at the meet and greet or the horrible Boston dialects in the cartoon, we were rolling on the floor all night. We took LOLQuizzes and drunk dialed the New Kids. I'm not sure I've ever had as much fun as I did last night, sitting on my living room floor with my NKOTBFFs. Fun sure is cheap.

I think that's what has been the best part of this ride. Of course the concerts are great, but there's so much free fun to be had, too. It's so easy to get caught up in trying to go to as many shows as you can that it's also easy to forget how much fun it is before the show. It is so fun amping yourself up and just going crazy junior high style. It's fun to stay in on a Thursday night and watch old videos with your friends. In truth, those are the memories that are going to be with me forever, the times we were sitting on the living room floor, laughing until we cried.

I am so happy to have found four NKOTBFFs to share this ride with. Robin - the first fellow New Kids fan that I met as an adult, the one who I shared those first moments of the reunion with, the one who reminded me how to go crazy and that I had to. Davie - the quiet one who always has something brewing underneath. Nikki - the one person who might have a dirtier mind than I do. Lindsay - my enabler, my anchor, my NKOTBFF. How lucky am I to have these four women in my life for this ride? How cosmically planned must it have been for the five of us to come together the way we did? How grateful am I that we have all let go and are allowing ourselves to really have fun? I am so blessed.