Meeting Mr. Kennedy 9/4/09
Ok so I have never posted in this community before, but I’ve watched it for many months and after my experience on the night of Sept. 4th 2009, I feel the need to share with you all my sister (nccorefan) and mine experience meeting the one and only Mr. Kennedy!
So that morning we got the tweet from Mr. Kennedy’s account talking about how he was flying to Vegas, and would be seeing the show LOVE that night. I was joking around with my sister Dawn (nccorefan), that we should hang out around the Mirage hotel, where the LOVE show takes place hoping to catch a glimpse of him. We were gonna be heading to the strip anyways, so we figured why not? At least we’d be able to see him!
So we run all our errands and make our way to the Mirage hotel, after chilling over at Caesers Palace for awhile. A store in the Caeser’s Forum Shops had Ric Flair signing autographs, but you had to pay $50 for an autograph! I’m sorry, but I don’t have the money for that, and quite honestly, I think that’s a bit over priced!
Anyhoo….Dawn and I went back to the Mirage to kill some time, we got to the area where people go in to the show, and went into the Beatles store they had there. They were letting the audience in for the early show already, so we were goofing around the store there. I saw the people standing in line to the concession stand, and kind of did a once over, seeing If I saw anyone familiar *wink wink*…I didn’t see anyone so I returned my attention back to the shirt I was looking at. All of a sudden I hear Dawn whisper to me “Melissa! Blue Jeans, Long Sleeve, Gray Shirt, Blonde Hair, he’s at the cashier” I lifted my head scanning the concession lines looking for the guy my sister pointed out. Suddenly as I was scanning the lines, I saw who she was talking about. I could only see the back of his head, so I couldn’t tell if it was THE Mr. Kennedy. But when he turned to talk another person he was with, I recognized him immediately. My stomach immediately flew into knots, I got so nervous all I could do was make weird noises, before I spoke loudly “Oh Shit!” causing the employees at the store to look at us. I then whispered “Yeah, that’s a positive”, to hear my sister respond “Oh God!” as we’re standing in the store just gazing across the floor as he proceeded to buy his drinks and enter the arena.
After seeing him, Dawn and I left the store, just freaking out that we ACTUALLY saw him. We honestly didn’t think we would see him at all, we’d figure we’d miss him somehow, so actually seeing him from afar was shocking!
We tweeted our friend who was coming over from work, and was a Mr. Kennedy fan too. She made her way over to the Mirage, while Dawn and I were trying to find some cheap food to munch on. We tried not to get too excited because we knew, odds are we would chicken out and not be able to even talk to him.
So the show lets out, and we’re hanging around out front of the theater. We’re watching the people file out calmly, when suddenly we see him coming out by himself. I whisper to my sister “He’s coming, back up” telling her to get out of the door way with me. Our friend who is just way more brave then us, waited until Mr. Kennedy got out of the theater and the crowd of people. He lost the other people he was with, cause he walked around the theater kind of lost, so our friend approached him and got her picture taken with him. He stayed in the same spot for what seemed like eternity, while Dawn and I quietly argued over if we were gonna go up to him or not. We argued and tried our best, but in the end, Mr. Kennedy walked away without us getting a picture. We were so angry at ourselves! We couldn’t believe we lost our shot!
Or so we thought….
All three of us walked around the casino a few times, looking around seeing if by chance he was still around. We didn’t see him at all, so we sat down at 3 slot machines talking about him, and how stupid we were for giving up our chance! Our friend was talking about how she just tweeted him thanking him for the picture, and she jokingly said, “You should tweet him asking if you can get a picture!”
Dawn and I cracked up laughing at first, but then Dawn said “I’m gonna do it” since Dawn and I share a twitter. So Dawn and I quickly came up with a message that simply read : @secondpower If we find you again (we chickened out last time), may we get a photo?
Now no one thought anything would come of it. We didn’t expect a respond, we really were just goofing around.
A few seconds passed as we continued goofing around, when I saw our friend pull out her phone and look at her message. Her eyes grew wide when she simply spoke “Oh My God!”
I turned to face Dawn as I spoke “What?”, I watched Dawn open her phone when she said “Oh Shit!”. I got even more freaked out as I yelled “What?” I turned to my friend when she said “He Re-Tweeted your message!” Getting more excited by the minute I was like “What?” then I hear Dawn say “He Re-Tweeted and responded to us!” My eyes grew wide when I said “What did he say?” grabbing the phone out of my sister’s hands to read the message myself.
Secondpower: RT (which means Re-Tweet for all you non twitters…it means repeat the last tweet they sent) @dafatsistas (me and Dawn): “@secondpower If we find you again (we chickened out last time), may we get a photo?” THEN HE WROTE: Sure! We’re at Samba!
All 3 of us practically started screaming, hugging each other and screaming in the area of the casino we were at. Dawn turns to me “What’s Samba?” I shrugged my shoulders, when our friend goes “Let’s ask an employee” we all nodded as we practically ran down the hallway, rushing into Starbucks. I asked the employee what Samba is, and after asking a bunch of other employees, the one employee told us that it is a restaurant in the casino.
All three of us getting excited we bolted out of the Starbucks, walking briskly through the casino. All three of us looking a different direction trying to find this restaurant, after getting to the other side of the casino, we spotted the restaurant.
It was a steakhouse in the middle of the casino, once we got closer, we saw Mr. Kennedy eating with some friends at a table.
Now Dawn and I didn’t want to interrupt his meal at all, so we took seats at some slot machines outside of the restaurant. We decided that we would wait, even though now he was expecting us…
I called my friend Laura, cause I could not believe this was happening. I couldn’t believe everything with the twitter, and the messages, it was just surreal.
After about 15 minutes of chilling there, Mr. Kennedy gets up from his table and comes walking out the front walkway of the restaurant.
So he walks out and Dawn basically swallows her nerves and goes for him, me following directly behind her.
As soon as he walked out of the restaurant, he looked right over to us. I think he recognized us from earlier when our friend got her picture taken.
Dawn basically walks up to him with a smile and says “Um…Hi…We’re DaFatSistas!”…To say it wasn’t cute would be lying, Mr. Kennedy just smiled wide at Dawn and I, before saying “There you are! I’ve been wondering where you were!” while throwing his hands up in the air. He immediately shook Dawn’s hand, before reaching out for mine. I shook his hand (he has a good, firm handshake), he had a wide smile on his face, and the first thing I could say “I am so sorry about this, we totally chickened out earlier” He just smiled wider and laughed a little before saying “Don’t worry about it…” Dawn handed our friend her camera, and was showing her to use it. I was standing next to him, when suddenly I spoke to Dawn “Are we doing solo photos, or one together?” when suddenly Mr. Kennedy wraps his arm around my shoulders pulling me tight next to him (BTW he smells delicious! And I think my ovaries were about to explode at this moment) he was just smiling when he tells me “We’ll do solo photos.” All I could do was stand there with a dumb ol grin on my face, as I was waiting for the camera to get ready. Dawn fixes the camera, she turns to face us, and with a wide eyed look Dawn goes “Noooo…” giving me a knowing look. I knew that look, that look meant we were getting a photo together.
Dawn moves closer when Mr. Kennedy goes “You gonna get in here?” opening his other arm for Dawn. Dawn moves closer as he wraps his arm around her shoulder and we got our photo. After the photo Mr. Kennedy was like “So did you guys see the show?”, I responded and said “No, we didn’t have the money, we actually live around here…we got your tweet earlier and we figured give it a shot” He just smiled wide and cracked up laughing before saying “That’s Hillarious!” Dawn and I immediately thanked him again for the photo, and with a smug grin on his face he said “It’s not a problem” as he reached out shaking all three of our hands as he spoke “It was a pleasure meeting all of you.” He gave us a quick smile as he made his way back into the restaurant.
All I gotta say, is he blew me away! He was such a nice guy! To actually tell us where we could find him to get a photo, to come out immediately approaching us. He was extremely laid back, and just in a really delightful mood. He was looking as good as ever! Very yummy….Did my ovaries good!
So that’s the story of me and my sister (nccorefan) met Ken Kennedy. It was such a surreal event, every part of it. Definitely a night we won’t forget anytime soon…Yes, I'm the dorky chick in the green...the blonde chick is my little sister Dawn (nccorefan)
BTW My sister nccorefan is probably gonna join this community soon, so please add her!!!