AllThatGlitters' date='Jul 19th 2010, 3:41 PM
Ok, so for someone who has posted only a handful of times, this is going to be a doozy. I just got home late last night, still too excited to sleep more than a few hours at a time and decided I need to relive the weekend one more time before returning to the real world (2 jobs, 2 kids, 2 dogs and a husband who really doesn't appreciate my fascination with AFL). Here goes...
My Mom and I arrived from Dallas early Friday morning and spent the whole day trying to figure out how to win meet and greet tickets. I even got through to the station once and the were like, tell us a story that begins with "you wouldn't believe it if I told you...". I'm like "...um...what? ", and they are all "call back when you think of something", and I'm "no wait I'll think of something!" ... click. Damn, so close! So we go over to the pub where the station is broadcasting from to try and get details about when the Glambowl is going to happen and will it be a private party. Nobody seemed to know anything. Stayed to watch a free concert with the group Hedley performing, they were actually pretty good.
Ok, this is where it starts to get good, the next morning (concert day!!!) we head over to Starbucks for breakfast and then walk down the street to the Paramount to see is they are starting to set up for the show. Sure enough, a truck and 3 buses are out back. We walk over to talk to a couple of fans that were milling around and everyone is so just excited for the show (Hi! Marley, and Lexie if you see this). We're standing there swapping Adam Lambert stories and I realize Longineu is talking on the phone down the street. Then Cam walks off the bus, she is sooo sweet. She chats and takes pics with us. Allison then comes out and says hi but heads quickly into the venue. Brook also came outside briefly. So, needless to say, we are now even more excited. All of the sudden the bus door opens and I catch a glimpse of a black and white baseball cap, and I'm like "Oh my God, I know that hat, that has to be Adam!" Sure enough a few seconds later, Adam and Taylor get off the bus and head down the street. There's a few seconds of should we follow or not, then the two 14 y.o. girls there with us take off after him, and we take off after them. We see Adam walking down the street headed for the Starbucks that my mom and I had just left! We, as casually as possible, follow them inside and get in line behind them (Adam ordered a venti ice coffee by the way). He also briefly picked up a Twilight CD which we all discretely passed around between us because Adam touched it, LOL. So we all place an order and we're standing right behind them and my mom can't stand it any more, she says, "Adam Lambert?", and he turns around, OMG he is sooo beautiful!, and she says "can I have a hug?", he smiles and says sure and then hugs her and the other fan who followed with us (Hi Barb! if you see this). At this point I have lost all power of coherent thought, I'm frozen into place just staring, my mom grabs my arms, pulls me forward and says you need a hug too! So I step up and hug Adam. I wish I could tell you exactly what it was like but it was so overwhelming and so quick that it's like it didn't really happen to me. So then Adam and Taylor are leaving and someone says "oh, no, we didn't even acknowledge Taylor!", so we all call "bye Taylor!" at his back as they walk out. I doubt be heard us. The door closes and we are all shaking, jumping up and down, hugging each other, laughing and talking at the same time. This is about the time my brain actually resumes partial function. We sit for an hour and just talk, what a way to meet new friends!
Next we head over to the bowling alley where the meet and greet is suppose to happen and I'm thinking if Adam sees us again we will officially have made it stalker status, but we have nothing better to do than try to catch glimpses of him all day. We are not there for even 15 minutes when Longineu walks through the door. He's all like "Hey, what's going on?" and we tell Adam has a meet and greet there soon. He's like "Oh really, well I want to bowl". So someone (Thanks Vicky! if you see this) goes over to rent the lanes right next to the meet and greet lanes and several of us go rent shoes and start a game. I can't believe I'm bowling and talking with LP! He is soooo cool, he gives me bowling advice as a sink gutter ball after gutter ball and high 5's me when I finally get a strike. Lots of other people come by and the people who won the met and greet show up. We spent the next hour and half taking with fans, drinking and bowling. I have to mention that I also met loriandjava and libracats there, Idolforums legends! They were so nice and had the best stories!
Adam showed up late for the meet and greet and was only there a short time, so we all took turns sneaking over there to take pictures. Again, he is so beautiful in person and he just seems to radiate energy. Adam left after about 20 minutes and so did LP so we all went our separate ways to get ready for the concert.
The concert was incredible! The happy, positive energy in the place is just amazing to be a part of. We danced, we sang, we screamed, it was soo much fun! You have to hear his voice live at least once, it is indescribable.
After the show we went back out to the buses, talk about a full circle day, and met Monty and Tommy and Allison. They were all so nice and hung around outside for at least an hour talking with fans. They all just seemed so comfortable and happy to stand around and talk with us. Finally Monty says he going to get some rest (he gets to go home and visit his family in the morning) he stops at the door of the bus, turns around and says " did everyone get everything they needed?" Is this guy for real? Could Adam have picked a nicer person the be his musical director.
We walked back to the hotel in daze. Still meeting and talking with fans on the way back. It's almost midnight and no one seems to want the day to end. I have too many funny fan stories to tell here so I will stop. But let me just end with saying, if someone ever asks me again to tell them a story that begins with "you wouldn't believe me if I told you..." I will tell them to pull up a chair! Best Day Ever!!!!!