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Deb's
review
Part
One – Saturday Morning
Well,
where do I start?
Does it start with the concert?
Or before that, the CD signing?
What about the beginning of the day,
finding out about this trip, or even
discovering Michael Ball in the first place? Perhaps I should start with last Saturday for now...…
6am:
The alarm goes off and I am very
temped to turn over, switch it off and go
back to sleep.
But no, I can’t, IT’S MICHAEL
DAY!! I
jump out of bed and am suddenly hit with the
fact that the night before I had been so
excited that I had needed to wind down at
the local pub with some friends before I
burst.
The result was that my packing left a
lot to be desired!
So I start again.
Pack everything that I can think of
and more.
6.30am:
Maureen rings to tell me she is on
the road to Sydney.
I’m going to be seeing her for the
first time soon.
Her and all the other people I have
been corresponding with over the Internet
for the last 18 months.
FINALLY I am going to meet these
people!
7am:
Tammy and Matt pick me up (thank you SO much
guys for the lift :)
and we’re on our way.
Really on our way.
The excitement hits me in a way that
I am not expecting.
And I fall asleep!
I sleep most of the way but once we
hit Sydney I wake and am rearing to go.
10.30am:
Margaret rings from the que at David
Jones (and the ringtone sounds out the
familiar ditty of ‘Love Changes
Everything’): “Where
are you??!”
“Margaret, is he
there yet, is he there yet???”
“No, not until 11
o’clock, but where are you?”
“Driving through
Sydney.
Almost there, see you soon!”
11am:
Tammy and I run through the front
door of David Jones and Michael is suddenly
there.
Right there. There is no one
between him and I. And he’s only a metre away.
My legs tremble, my knees knock.
I can see Michael!
With my very own two eyes.
What a wonderful way to set up the
signing, Michael is arranged at the front
door with the que heading down into the
store.
I spend a minute getting snap happy
(well, he’s so close!) and then go and
line up.
The line is so long.
We are right down the very end with
so many people in front.
Is Michael going to get to us?
PLEASE please please!!
Penny Dennison makes a few
announcements down the front.
They are very impressed by the
turnout; it’s much bigger than expected. Michael really can only stay for an hour, but he’s going to
get through everyone.
I swear this is the longest hour of
my life.
The girls behind us in the que have
just flown in from Brisbane and still have
all her luggage.
No one can say that Michael fans
aren’t devoted!
My
phone rings.
'Love Changes Everything' sounds out
again.
I’ve never seen so many heads turn
so fast.
11.45am:
Now, who can I recognise?
That’s GOT to be Margaret, I’ve
seen so many pictures, I couldn’t miss
her. Is
that Connie? Could be….. That must be Nick over there.
I think!
Lets just look for the t-shirts.
But there are so many people in
Michael t-shirts.
These fans are really making an
effort!
11.55am:
The line eventually gets closer and
I’m only a couple of people away from
Michael.
My hands are a blur from shaking so
much. There’s
Margaret again, looks like she is trying to
set up her camera.
Oh wonderful, she has just offered to
take our pictures with Michael.
That makes life easier.
Its time…..argh….um…umm…..go!
 “H..hi
Michael.
Thank you SO much for coming!”
“It’s a pleasure
Darling, I’m loving it here”
“Could you…..do
the autograph thing for me please?”
(Did I just say that?!
OH!)
“Of course!
Gimme that”
(the photo that is)
“Oh Michael,
I’ll just come around here, thanks for
this, its that camera over there”
“Thank you so much Michael, I’ll see you
at the concert tonight, Michael you’re
brilliant” (oh, why can’t I
think of something clever to say!)
“A pleasure
Darling, have fun tonight (wink)”
12.05pm:
I just met Michael; I just met
Michael, I JUST MET MICHAEL!! He called me ‘darling’, and winked at me.
I am a wobbling piece of jelly.
Take more pictures, take more
pictures……
The security guard asks us to move on so we
walk around the back of people and end up
behind a group of people.
“Deb?”
Ok, so I was right, it IS Nick!
Suddenly everyone is introducing themselves
and the make-up department of David Jones
becomes a family reunion.
On
to part two
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