MY ENCOUNTER!!!

Ok, I admit it. I'm a big Hanson fan, but I wasn't always. It's really no big deal. I'm a fan of almost every music group you can think of. But what made me like Hanson more than I did originally? Well I'll tell you.

It all began in 1997 when I was on a trip to Europe from the People to People Student Ambassador Program. It was about Mid-July when I was in the Chrez Republic's capitol city of Prauge on a rainy day. Some friends I had made on the trip and I decided to go to McDonald's for lunch. We had already got our food and went upstairs. Being the idiot I was then, I decided to go and get some ice cream.

I'll tell you, I wasn't a real big fan when they first came out. And I was getting really tired of "Mmmbop" and "Where's the Love". I had heard that they were touring about the same time as we were there. I didn't actually think that they were going to be there at the same time as we were. I would fanticize with some of the people I was with about what it would be like to bump into them. Some of them gave me odd looks and others spoke behind my back thinking that I was crazy (which I am at times but not always).

The kids on this trip were almost all rich, spoiled brats. Except for a few that I had met up with before that are all really nice. Now, as I was saying, we went to a McDonald's for lunch. And boy that place was so crowded that you wouldn't be able to stand and eat! Now that's bad! The McDonald's had 2 floors one to eat in and one to take your order.

Now as I was going down the steps, I was minding my own business and looking at people as I usually do. Today, I had the feeling that something was going to happen but I dismissed that. And at times, I have actually had many dejavus and "perdictions" that came true. The first person at the first landing I had saw I had dismissed as a girl. She had blonde hair and was about my height (I was 5'8 then). But as I was going down the last flight, my eyes had locked in with Zac Hanson's.

You can imagine how surprised I was seeing him right there in front of me! I was completely speechless. A million things were going through my head all in one second like, "Don't scream you might start a riot" to "Oh dear God, it's Zac Hanson!!!!" So I just stood there and watched him run past me on the steps with two little girls right behind him. At first I thought they were some fans. And at the bottom of the steps was a man with a video camra. I didn't think much of that at all. Eventually, I found out that that was their father and their two sisters. Isaac was with their dad, looking in another direction, possibly talking to his mom.

Zac on the other hand, wasn't to amazed as I was. He looked very startled just like I was. I watched him go past me and that girl that I had passed by earlier was actually Taylor Hanson. Haha, you can imagine how amused I was to find that out later. After I got my order, I decided to look for them and talk. Sadly, I wasn't succsessful. I'm still kicking myself in the head for not talking to them when I had the chance. When I told everyone else on the trip, they just gave me odd looks and didn't belive me.

The next day, we were going to a town that still looked like it did in the middle ages. While we were getting there, I was ignoring our tour giude, Jon and looking out the window. As I was watching out of it, I noticed that there were a lot of people out on the side of the road that day. I joked to my self, "Maybe I'll see Hanson there hich-hiking on the side of the road." Then, I saw a man with a camra and the back of some bolnde, long-haired person who had some kind of slouch. A few seconds later, I saw Issac Hanson there on the side of the road "hitch-hiking" and then Taylor not long after that. I was like, "Holy ****!!!!"

Now it's 1999, almost two years since then and it's still engraved in my mind. The images are still very vivd and at times I remember or forget details that are there. Everyone on the trip made fun of me because of what happened to me. And it's all true. In 1998, about a year after I had seen them, I found the picture you see at the top of this page. I know it's diffrent from the pose I saw, but it is the same location, clothes, and faces I remember. And after all of that has happened to me, I have sworn to God that I am going to meet up with them, and talk.