We had all been given the day off except Ash who was staying with our choreographer to improve her dancing.

"Hey guys," I said after Ash had left,"tommorow's Ash's birthday and we haven't done any shopping for presents yet."

"OK," Zoe decided,"That's what we'll do today."

We split into three groups. Me and Brian had decided to go to the Windgate Mall (fake name) while Nick had decided to join Steph and AJ going through jewelry shops and the others had decided to go to the Naradia Mall (fake name).

We decided to meet back at the hotel at 5:30 which was when Ash was supposed to be done and we were going to eat dinner. It was already 1:30 which gave us 30 minutes to get where we were going, 3 hours to shop, and another 30 minutes to get back again so we left immediately.

Brian and I wasted no time getting to the mall to do our shopping. The first store we tried was Claire's.

"What do you think she'd think of this?" Brian asked me holding up a pair of Snake fang earings.

I was laughing to hard to speak so I shook my head no. Deciding that there was nothing to buy at Claire's we went to the music store.

"She likes the Beatles doesn't she?" he inquired.

"Yup," I answered.

We went to the oldies section and Brian found a Beatles CD she didn't have. He payed for it and we went to a sports store, women's store, book store, toy store, and finally a clothing store.

"This is perfect for her," I exclaimed holding up a Marvin the Martian shirt and boxers,"She loves him as much as I do!"

I looked at my watch and saw that it was already 4:27. I ran to pay for the shirt and boxers and we left to go back to the hotel.

We got back at 5:00 which was about the same time everyone else got back. We all decided to go to Zoe's room to wrap the presents.

Here's what everyone else got her:

Zoe:Piglet neclace
Ariana:Vanilla body spray
Steph:basketball charm bracelet
Kevin:hair stuff
Howie:Peach body spray
AJ:Marvin the Martian watch
Nick:blue teardrop shaped earings

We were finished by 5:30 and went downstairs to meet Ash for dinner.

"What did you guys do today?" she questioned.

"Nothing," I answered.

After a 5 minute discussion we decided to order room service.

While we were eating in Zoe's room our manager told us,"Since tommorow is Ashley's birthday I managed to only schedule a photo shoot and interview."

"All right!" we yelled.

Days like that were very rare and we learned to enjoy them as much as we could. Since the photo shoot was early the next morning after we ate we only stayed up till 9:00 which for me was very early to go to bed.

I woke up at 5:30 the next morning and showered. We left at about 7:00.

When we got there, the women sent us to different rooms to change into some clothes. When we came out 10 minutes later we stared at each other.

Zoe was wearing really baggy jeans and a tight green shirt, Ariana: cargo shorts with a light blue shirt, me: airpants with a Nike tank top, Ash: jeans and a yellow tee, Steph: drawstring khakis with dark blue shirt.

"Man, we look good," Steph commented.

"OK, that's it we're keeping the clothes," I said.

The photo shoot took about an hour. They took individuals and 1 group shot. The interview was fairly easy too. They asked us about ourselves and our family's but they also wanted to know if we were dating the boys.

"Nope, sorry," I answered," They're like family."

After the interview we went out to eat at Bocelli's (that's a restaurant in my town), and then Ash opened presents.

"Thank you, SO much," she said afterwards, "the presents were great."

We spent the rest of the day watching movies. We all fell asleep in the middle of "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" and woke up the next day in time to grab our stuff and head out to the bus to leave for England.