Everybody has had an exciting day or moment in their life. One of my exciting days was going to Nickelodeon's first annual World Wide Day of Play. The World Wide Day of Play is a day where Nickelodeon stars come to D.C to play and have fun with their fans. That morning I woke up at seven o'clock, and put my best play clothes on. I put on deodorant, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair and ate breakfast. I was so very excited and ready to have a good time. My sisters, my mom, and I headed out the door ready to play while my dad stayed home to work.
We live in Virginia and the Day of Play was being held in Washington D.C so we were not far from the event. On the way there we made up stories about things that could possibly happen while we were there. Once we finally got to Washington D.C it took us a long time to find a place to park. Most of the the parking garages where either full or closed, but we managed to find one not too far from the event. We were on our way to the park where the Day of Play took place and I could feel the happiness in the air. We were so close to the park and I was so ready and anxious to get there when all of a sudden my older sister said she had to use the bathroom. When she said that we all had to turn around and go to the bathroom.
It seemed like fifty years until we finished using the bathroom and made it to the Day of Play, but when we got there there was a big line but it passed by pretty quickly. So as soon as we got in we were standing along a barricade and saw two tents, one with snacks inside for the stars and one where they were watching t.v. Every once in a while a star or two would go out of the tent to use the bathroom. After a while, they came out of the tents to go walk by the fans and shake their hands on their way to take pictures. I was getting tired of standing there in the muddy, smelly grass watching nothing. Then it happened, a band called Big Time Rush walked by where my sisters, my mom, and I where standing and shook our hands. My older sister got it on tape and we were all extremely happy. After a while the staff closed the path where the stars where walking and we decided to go to where Big Time Rush was going to perform.
Once we got there we could barely see the stage because it was crowded. We tried to make our way to the front but mom didn't want to. Then we spotted a partly empty spot behind a barricade off to the side with an obstacle course in front of it. We headed over to that spot and sat on top of the barricade and waited for the concert to begin. We sat for a long time just waiting and waiting while the D.J tried to keep us occupied. During this time two stars of the Nickelodeon's show Victorious had walked by and greeted us, and a few others at the barricade, with a hello. Then Big Time Rush went on stage and performed about four or five songs and then went back off stage.
Immediately after the concert, the whole crowd literally turned around to where we were standing and crowded around the barricade. With that crowd was a eighteen year old girl who screamed and shouted the whole entire time with her brother. She was screaming that it was her birthday. We were all squished and sweating against the barricade with the sun beating down on us watching and waiting for the stars to come out and do the obstacle course. It smelled really bad especially with strangers breathing on the back of our necks. Finally, we spotted Victoria Justice, star of the Nickelodeon show Victorious, in a helmet talking to the staff.
Everybody started screaming and shouting her name, including the eighteen year old. She started screaming for Victoria Justice to come over to her and so did all the other fans. Victoria Justice just acted like she didn't hear them so she didn't have to go through the whole crowd or hurt anybody's feelings by not going to one part of the crowd. Eventually she left, but the crowd didn't die down. We noticed a few more stars stroll out of hiding to get ready for the obstacle course. By this time we were tired and sweaty and had lost our personal space because of all the people huddling around us. Then the eighteen year started screaming "GET THE GAME STARTED BEFORE I DIE!" over and over again. The only thing that kept us there at that point was our view of LeBron James passing a football around.
When the game had finally started a whole lot of guards rushed in front of the barricades and blocked our view. We could only see a third of the obstacle course and we had became tired and hungry. Eventually this lady came by to hand out three balloons to blow up that says" GET YOUR GAME ON!" My older sister got one from the kind lady and was clearly happy. Then a boy reached out grabbed the balloon. My sisters and I yelled at him to let go, he didn't, so I had to take this matter into my own hands, literally. That's right I slapped his hand, hard. As I said before we were tired, hungry,sweaty, annoyed even, so we decided to leave. We held hands turned around and started to leave.
As we were leaving, a whole lot of people tried to take our spot in the front row. One lady had the nerve to get in our path to get to our old spot. My older sister was so pissed off because of the lady she pushed her out of the path. Did the women ever get to our old spot? I don't know but I doubt it. There were alot of people rushing to get to our spot so she might have took too long. But I hope the person or people who got it enjoyed it. When we left we went to the parking garage to get our car. Once we got our car we went to Wendy's. We enjoyed our food and then went home to our father. When we got home we explained the whole story to dad. He laughed at our whole experience in D.C. I know if dad went with us he would not have been able to take the crowds and screaming fans. Even though the whole event was chaos and with out a doubt hectic I would like to go again next year for the second annual Day Of Play.
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