Confessions of a fangirl

So... I swore I wouldn't get as involved with AI again, like I did with Season 5. But I'm a sucker, and I did. I even got my wife sucked in this year.

We tuned in every week, for every minute of each episode anxiously awaiting the next good singer, or in our case, singers. We had David Hernandez picked at first, until David Cook auditioned. From that moment, we were hooked, although Jason Castro was very much in the running for us.

We even voted when it got down to the last few weeks. Giving Jason some extra time on the show because he made us smile, but always kind of hoping that Cookie would take it all. AND THEN HE DID!!!

Since we liked two of them so much, we swore we'd go see the tour, which we did last night. Our sunburn and shattered voices aside, we had a FANTASTIC time.



We arrived around 12:30 and stood in a line of about 100 people to see if the idols would come off the buses and greet the fans. (I'd had very good luck with this previously during the season 5 tour.) Apparently there were some change of plans somewhere and the idols did not arrive until roughly 4:00pm to the stadium. Only 2 of the idols came around to sign and take pictures.

Kristy Lee:

Brooke White:

We didn't have them sign anything or take pictures with them, because honestly we don't really care for them all that much. They didn't stay long as they had the meet and greet to get inside for, but they were very gracious and friendly to come out at all.

The show was very high energy and a lot of fun! Here are some of the idols performing:

Chikezie:


Ramielle:


Michael:


Kristy:


Carly:


Brooke:


Group number to generate more donations for Idol Gives Back, including everyone above:


Donna and I during intermission, anxiously awaiting the next performer:

(Donna is on the left, and I'm on the right.)

And one of our favorites, JASON:

(WE LOVE THE RED SHOES!!! Isn't he just the cutest?)









Syesha:


David Archuletta:


And the idol, our chosen idol, DAVID COOK:










(Excuse the bluriness on some of these, we were a bit over-excited.)

Finale:




Seeing as we'd only gotten Kristy and Brooke in the afternoon, we decided to wait in a crowd of easily about 400 to 500 people to see who we could see. This turned out to be very successful as we got to see 7 out of the 10. Woot! We purchased the tour program so we actually had something for them to sign this time around. So we got them all to sign as they made their way down the line.

Here you go:

(We didn't take another of Kristy... figured we'd gotten enough of her earlier.)

Carly:


Syesha:


Michael:


Brooke:


I have to just say Brooke was very sweet. I had the program open to her page, ready for her to sign to make easy for her to sign and move along. But she stopped, touched my arm, looked into my eyes, and said "Thank you." That, I thought, was very classy. Not quite sure what she was thanking me for, other than maybe attending the concert, but it was a very sweet gesture. She stopped amongst the madness and just took a moment. She's earned my respect for that, even if I don't so much care for her music or style.

David Archuletta:


And our other favorite, we chased this poor guy up and down the line, Jason Castro:






And then our hurried pic with him over the stupid barricade:


(So we look a little crazed, because it was complete madness out there... but at least we got it. LOVE THAT BOY!!)



And then we went home and crashed...