My Standing Stone Story :)
i woke up at my house, got ready to go. i was so excited. HOURS!! HOURS!! I called Betty's and Paula's and Marylin's hotel room in the morning to see if they could watch over me. They were great! My dad drove me in to Manhattan and dropped me of at Carnagie and i walked two blocks to the Park Central. I knocked at thier door and i heard from inside "FOEY!!!!!" i was like "OH MAN, THIS IS IT. NO TURNING BACK! ITS STARTING TO HAPPEN." I went inside and everyone was so nice. Definately the nicest group of Paul people I've ever met! Man, Macca-L. You should just all applaud yourselves for being such a great group of people. I saw betty's paul doll! Boy! that is the coolest doll i have ever seen! complete with beatle watch and a paul id bracelet! from one of the windows in their room we could see the corner of Carnagie Hall. We hung around there getting ready to go to Carnagie and stuff. Excitement was building for me. You have no clue how excited i was!! Ok, so we went to carnagie. There were baricades already set up and there were Macca-lers already there waiting. the left side of the barricades were just fans when we got there and most of the right side were Macca-l and Macca-chatters. i recognized Jorie right away by her hair!! she was right there in front. Lucky Lucky girl. I saw the 2 andreas and who else. annie and her mom. and
people kept coming. who else? i cant think now. names can be so hard to remember sometimes. Anyways, did i mention the banner!? Guess not!! Betty has this banner right and it says "SO GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE". It was signed by all of the band at the time of Betty's Visa commercial including paul and lin! YEEEEEEH! I put my hand on his signature. You can see the banner and the doll at her page. http://members.aol.com/Maccabetty/index.html
Anyways, so she had this great banner and John Hammel was hanging outside. Betty took a picture of him and time was getting closer to when he should come. The crowd was getting a little bigger. Mike and Mark Tovey were coming around with the video camara. I gave my countdown. Anyway, John Hammel must have told paul that they are really excited over there and they were taking pictures of him or something. HIS LIMO! OH MY GOD HIS LIMO! OH MY GOD! Some guy came out and then PAUL! AHHHHHHHHHH! "PAUL! PAUL! PAUL!" I made sure I got an eyeful! HE LOOKED AMAZING! HE WAS SLIGHTLY TANNED. HIS HAIR WAS A LITTLE LONGER THAN AT RAH. HE LOOKED SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD! "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I gotta tell you as i am typing this my hands are shaking. just thinking back makes me all fidgety. Anyways, HE GOT OUT OF HIS LIMO AND LOOKED TO HIS LEFT TO THE AUTOGRAPH MOB AND LOOKED TO HIS RIGHT! SAW BETTY WITH THE PAUL DOLL ON HER SHOULDERS AND THE BANNER POINTED AND CALLED OUT TO HER "BETTY!" TOOK PICTURES OF HER OR OUR AREA AND SINCE I WAS RIGHT NEXT TO BETTY ** PAUL HAS PICTURES OF ME!!!!!!!!!! ** *foey falls of her computer chair and gets up and struts around her room like she did all that day * Ok, im sitting again. SO AFTER HE TAKES THE PICTURES HE ... GET THIS ... BLOWS A KISS TO OUR AREA! I WAS DYYYYYYYYYYING! ASK ANYBODY THAT WAS THERE. I JUST KEPT REPEATING "OH MY GOD. I SAW PAUL. OH MY GOD. HE BLEW A KISS! OH MY GOD! I SAW PAUL!" The picture of me below is freaking out at that moment. He ran inside and thats all we saw of him for another 5 hours. The limo driver told us to come back in 2 hours. Annie was crying tears of pure joy. The people i met while there that werent on macca-l were great too! This guy named Rick Glover, the senior correspondant from Beatlefan magazine was there and we were talking to him. Nice guy! Ok, So Mike and Mark came around again and got our little stories in after he went in. Great!!! After that i went to the limo and just ran my fingers around the limo door. Wow. We decided to go back to the hotel and relax awhile before we went back. I got a disposable camara from the store across from the hotel cause after that I was gonna try not to miss a thing. We left and went back to the hotel. oh yeh. Wings1978 from Macca-chat was with us too. At the hotel I was in shock. I was so fidgety. I didnt really eat anything the entire day. Thanks marylin for the snack! We went back to Carnagie a little while after that and by then there was a bigger crowd and a different crowd. Some people still the same though. Annie and her mom were on the left. So was i think debbie and eileen. We waited and waited and waited and waited. This time we only had the banner. No doll. It was heavy. It was starting to get dark outside. While we were there we met this lady whos name i cant remember but she was from texas and worked across the street for the carnagie company. she made it inside to Carnagie but she had to leave. Oh well she tried. Nice Lady. Anyways, james was on the sidewalk on the left and just casually walked in. I think it was while we were waiting for paul to come out. Annie was right next to him! like inches away!!! Way to go Annie!! Anyways, so the crowd was getting bigger and more pushy. No barricades were blocking some people. I didnt like that. And some lady had a big head and was blocking whatever chance i had of a good view. So we decided to go further down in the street. We took the banner and went down
the street. It was a one way street so paul would have to come down that way. We were waiting there for a reeeeeeally long time in the cold. Then we heard the screams from the upper side of the block. Paul was coming!!! They all charged the car! if anyone saw anything, good for them but he got in that car fast! He was coming!!!!! We got the banner ready! HE WAS DRIVING UP!!!! WE WERE SHOWING THE BANNER AND WAVING!! PAUL SAW US!! THERE WERE JUST 3 OF US!!! HE STUCK HIS WHOLE ARM OUT THE WINDOW AND ... WAVED, PEACE SIGNED AND THUMBED UPED US!! I SCREAMED!! I WAS SO HAPPY!!! As we were walking back up the street We walked right into Geoff Baker and Betty said something to him and we walked up to the rest of the crowd. I found Mike and told him! i was sooooooo hyper! ok so the Hard Rock was soon. We ran to the hotel got the paul doll and went to the Hard Rock. Some of the gang were already there. i went around and gave a countdown to everybody i thought was macca-l and stuff in my enthusiastic little way and about everybody knew "hey that MUST be foey" Yep twas I! Everybody recognized Betty by the
paul doll. They played "I feel fine" on the radio i stood up and sang! and they played the World Tonight video! when i first saw the yellow umbrella i stood up from my chair and screamed!!!! i was having a blast!!! and when paul gave linda that kiss i applauded and screamed and everything. that was around the time i went over to macca-radio if you were listening that evening. Sandy Doyle made nice pins for us all that had the picture of paul on the cover of all the best and it said MCCARTNEY STANDING STONE - NOV 19 1997. I showed Melissa and her brother and Annie and her friend Cynthia all the Beatles and Paul stuff they had. That one picture of Paul Astrid took just blows my mind! Thank so much Sheryll for setting that up for us! So after that, we went back to the hotel and got ready for Standing Stone: MINUTES! MINUTES! 60 DAYS AND NOW IM DOWN TO MINUTES!!! I was wearing a brown dress with little flowers on it. So, while we were getting ready we heard screams. Paul made his grand entry. Ok, before we left for Carnagie we pinned betty's banner to the inside of her jacket. we left and went to Carnagie. We all decided to meet in the lobby after it was over. We all went to our seats. I was in tier 1 box 61. Paul was like close to the center. A little to the right of the center. but he wasnt at his seat yet. i was just waiting. i couldnt wait!! when you see Paul once YOU MUST SEE HIM AGAIN! anyway, then i heard cheers and I SAW HIM! OH MY GOD! HE WAS GORGEOUS! IN HIS SUIT! MY EYES HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A SIGHT. I SAW HIM EARLIER BUT TO HAVE SEEN HIM IN THAT SUIT WITH LIN AND
JAMES AND MARY AND STELLA BEHIND HIM I JUST COULDNT HELP IT! I WAVED AND SCREAMED "PAUL!" AND I NOTICED HE WAS POINTING AT BETTY! JAMES SAW BETTY AND THEY WERE ALL POINTING AND CALLING BETTY!!! I WAS SO HAPPY FOR HER I WAS CRYING! HE IS THE MOST AMAZING MAN I HAVE EVER BEEN IN THE PRESENCE OF! the lights went down and stately horn started. it was amazing. at this time
i was all just in tears of joy that i finally made it. im here with paul! breathing his air! my heart was mush. i was so truly in love with the man! then after stately horn was inebriation. this was done by a string quartet. veeeery beautiful. i tried as hard as i could to concetrate on the music. it was very emotional. but i kept looking at paul! how could i resist! i turn my head to the right there he is! after that there was a leaf and spiral. both great pieces. i loved spiral. those two pieces were done with all the orchestra. fantastic. after that came the intermission. i knew i had to find betty. i had to! i ran up the stairs and she was coming down and we met and i was so happy for her!! i was crying when i saw her! i was just soooo happy! then betty came to my box. she sat in my chair i sat on the floor. i was fine. i was way to fidgety to sit in that chair! after the intermisson paul came back in everybody cheered and stuff again. it was great! then ... standing stone began. the "s" logo went up on the back and the choir was in. it started. this was it! during it james was wearing sandals and playing with ?clay?, stella was wearing a low cut shirt and paul was wearing a dark suit. like a charcoal color. he looked amazing like i said before. lin was beautiful. :) i was so happy to see her. i heard james gave someone the finger and the orchestra made a couple mistakes or something. i couldnt tell cause last night was the first time i heard it. so as i heard "celebration" or track 19 i go to betty "this is the last one right?" and she goes yeh so we had to find a way to give paul flowers. we got up got our stuff and went to the people guarding the doors. we asked if we could go in when its over to give the flowers to him. they said no. "i'll stay with youuuuuuuu" clapping! this was our cue! the lady guarding the door let me in and i ran to betty and i worked my way to the front with the flowers. betty was holding on the my jacket and I WAS WEAVING MY WAY CLOSER AND CLOSER TO PAUL STANDING UP THERE! JUST ON A LITTLE STAGE! HE WAS ONLY FEET AWAY NOW! AT THE 4TH OVATION I WAS BELOW HIM! we had tall flowers! HE LOOKED IN MY EYES!!! *screams and awakens the old ogre sleeping in the next room* AND TOOK THE FLOWERS! I FELT WEAK! BETTY WAS LIKE "WE DID IT! YOU GAVE IT TO HIM! I WAS LIKE IN SHOCK! I FELT SO WEAK AND FIDGETY. A WAVE OF JUST "I DUNNO" I CANT DESCRIBE IT BUT IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE! HE WAS THERE! IN FRONT OF ME!! IT WAS A DREAM!! I WAS SOOOOO HAPPY! I STILL CANT REALLY DESCRIBE HOW I FELT. IT WAS JUST TOO AMAZING. I WAS SHAKING ONCE AGAIN. OH YEH! AS I WAS RUNNING DOWN STANDING STONE CONFETTI CAME DOWN ON US! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AS I WAS RUNNING CLOSER TO PAUL IT SUDDENLY SNOWED! IT WAS SO TOUCHING! AFTER HIS LAST OVATION WHERE HE TOOK OUR FLOWERS WE WENT TO THE LOBBY! EVERY MACCA-LER I SAW THERE I SCREAMED TO "I GAVE PAUL FLOWERS!" AND PEOPLE WERE LIKE "NO WAY! GOOD FOR YOU!" THE HUGS WERE GREAT! I AM SO SUBLIMELY HAPPY! YOU HAVE NO IDEA! BUT THEN AGAIN, ALOT OF YOU DO. ISNT IT THE BEST!!?!!??! I MUST SEE HIM AGAIN! after that i had to leave and fast. my dad was expecting me at 11pm. i met him at 11:30. i had to run back to the hotel and get my stuff and got some last pictures of the gang. then i left. it was all too much of a wonderful day just like a dream.
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