A Brush With Fame
D.W.Q.M.: "Wicked!!!" -Ace
"Next time something cool like this happens to us, remind me to take out my cell phone!!" -Jerm
So Friday night Jerm and I were trying to figure out what to do after dinner. Since neither of us had gotten the chance to see the premiere of Stargate last week, Stargate Atlantis would be off limits (expect a summer revival of the tvjunkie files sometime this month. ;) ), neither of us had any Doctor Who episodes we wanted to watch, and we finished Zelda 4 Swords last Monday. Finally Jerm said if I could get P^2 to do something later that evening, he'd consider walking over to Cain Park for a bit. (I have never been to Cain Park before-I've driven past it several times, but never been there) Well, Perseph had to work on the wedding invites, but she said Paul might be up for something later. So Jerm and I said goodbye to her, and we were off to Cain Park (about a 10 minute walk from their place)
We decided to walk around and do a little bit of exploring. Soon we discovered that there was something big going on, so Jerm suggested that we check out the event boards. We get there and check out what's listed for the 16th. Jerm nearly did a double take: "Jewel?!" he said. "At 8pm?!" I added. "Huh, I thought that the fact that Jewel is here would get a bigger response." I countered with "It's nearly 8pm now-don't you think it's awfully calm for a concert that's supposed to be starting in 5 minutes?" He suggested that we finish exploring the park, and then come back to see if we can hear her singing.
We got back about 8:15 and the opening act was still on the stage (we were on the path behind the ampitheatre) By now a few others had also gathered back there for the same reason we were, although they probably had planned this several days ago, instead of several minutes ago. LOL. ;) As we were waiting, we nearly got run over by a big van with tinted windows and three people inside pulls up to be let in the gate. Okay, that's probably exaggerating just a bit, but we were the closest to the van-and when I say close, I mean really close. Like 'reach out and touch someone' close. ;) We noticed a line gathering on the other side of a covered fence, along with a couple of people on our side peeking through the gap between the fence and the gate. We got to see Jewel through the gap! She was taking pictures with several fans who probably were contestant winners.
After we were shooed away from the gate, we hung back and waited for her concert. We were chatting with a couple who did this kind of thing often-they said that you used to be able to walk over to the other side and actually see what's going on onstage, but they've been blocking it pretty well lately. Once Jewel started singing, we sat down to listen to some music.
Now we're not the biggest Jewel fans in the world, but we do know a few songs-Jerm recogninzed one song, and I recognized two-unfortunately during the song we both knew the man we were talking to earlier came over and told us that he was leaving because he didn't recognize any of the songs she was singing and it was too slow for him. He was hoping to hear 'Who Will Save Your Soul' That's the song that we were waiting for too, but it was getting late and we had told Paul that we would be back around 9:30-plus the mosquitos were starting to bite. Well, me anyway. Jerm said they weren't bothering him. Lucky dog. ;)
So we didn't get to hear the song we really wanted to hear-that's ok-our brief brush with fame was fun. And to think-all we were doing was going on a walk with nothing exciting planned. As Jerm said, 'We rock!' LOL ;)
"Next time something cool like this happens to us, remind me to take out my cell phone!!" -Jerm
So Friday night Jerm and I were trying to figure out what to do after dinner. Since neither of us had gotten the chance to see the premiere of Stargate last week, Stargate Atlantis would be off limits (expect a summer revival of the tvjunkie files sometime this month. ;) ), neither of us had any Doctor Who episodes we wanted to watch, and we finished Zelda 4 Swords last Monday. Finally Jerm said if I could get P^2 to do something later that evening, he'd consider walking over to Cain Park for a bit. (I have never been to Cain Park before-I've driven past it several times, but never been there) Well, Perseph had to work on the wedding invites, but she said Paul might be up for something later. So Jerm and I said goodbye to her, and we were off to Cain Park (about a 10 minute walk from their place)
We decided to walk around and do a little bit of exploring. Soon we discovered that there was something big going on, so Jerm suggested that we check out the event boards. We get there and check out what's listed for the 16th. Jerm nearly did a double take: "Jewel?!" he said. "At 8pm?!" I added. "Huh, I thought that the fact that Jewel is here would get a bigger response." I countered with "It's nearly 8pm now-don't you think it's awfully calm for a concert that's supposed to be starting in 5 minutes?" He suggested that we finish exploring the park, and then come back to see if we can hear her singing.
We got back about 8:15 and the opening act was still on the stage (we were on the path behind the ampitheatre) By now a few others had also gathered back there for the same reason we were, although they probably had planned this several days ago, instead of several minutes ago. LOL. ;) As we were waiting, we nearly got run over by a big van with tinted windows and three people inside pulls up to be let in the gate. Okay, that's probably exaggerating just a bit, but we were the closest to the van-and when I say close, I mean really close. Like 'reach out and touch someone' close. ;) We noticed a line gathering on the other side of a covered fence, along with a couple of people on our side peeking through the gap between the fence and the gate. We got to see Jewel through the gap! She was taking pictures with several fans who probably were contestant winners.
After we were shooed away from the gate, we hung back and waited for her concert. We were chatting with a couple who did this kind of thing often-they said that you used to be able to walk over to the other side and actually see what's going on onstage, but they've been blocking it pretty well lately. Once Jewel started singing, we sat down to listen to some music.
Now we're not the biggest Jewel fans in the world, but we do know a few songs-Jerm recogninzed one song, and I recognized two-unfortunately during the song we both knew the man we were talking to earlier came over and told us that he was leaving because he didn't recognize any of the songs she was singing and it was too slow for him. He was hoping to hear 'Who Will Save Your Soul' That's the song that we were waiting for too, but it was getting late and we had told Paul that we would be back around 9:30-plus the mosquitos were starting to bite. Well, me anyway. Jerm said they weren't bothering him. Lucky dog. ;)
So we didn't get to hear the song we really wanted to hear-that's ok-our brief brush with fame was fun. And to think-all we were doing was going on a walk with nothing exciting planned. As Jerm said, 'We rock!' LOL ;)
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