I Met DAVID ARCHULETA!!

This past Friday I went to the Matt Nathanson concert (if you don't know who he is, look him up! You'll love him) Anyway we were standing not ten feet from the stage and I hear this couple in front of my, obviously in the honeymoon stage of dating, flirting tirelessly. The bf starts teasing the gf, '"David Archuleta" is here!" The girl giggles and comes off a bit ditsy, I mean who would believe that David Archuleta is at this little concert!? Nonetheless, I looked back up to the box and back down, shaking my head at the smitten couple.

Well time passes and whispers mull their way through the crowd, "David Archuleta! Yeah the guy from American Idol, he's in the box!" Suddenly I'm intrigued, I look back up to the box. I realize the same silhouette I saw the first time I gazed up now looks strikingly like David Archuleta-the boy I had watched every week for a season on American Idol. It was a "re-vision."

So I'm a fan, NO SHAME, so my new purpose for that evening was to meet him. Well we hung around after the concert, but the big, black security guard kicked us out with one of those don't-mess-with-me-you-punk-kids look on his face. Still not ready to accept defeat we hung around the front for quite some time.

Well I guess God blesses patients! David Archuleta came down the stairs and right out front! There were probably ten people around and we all got pictures, autographs and a taste of his famously awkward laugh. I was so excited, I called Brooke, "I'm 2 feet from David Archuleta!! David, will you say hi to my friend Brooke!??" I put my phone up to his ear, "ha..ha Hey..Brooke...haha (awkward laugh) this is..David Archuleta..." It was priceless!

So David Archuleta may be shy and awkward, not to mention a foot shorter than me, but seeing him in real life was one of the craziest experiences of my life. I have to look at the pictures repeatedly to make sure I'm not going crazy and dreaming them all up. Each time I look at them I have a "revision"-of American Idol and of that night. It really did happen!