Me and a group of my friends went to Summersault in Edmonton. We were not expecting to run into George that day but I guess lady luck was on our side. As we were standing in line waiting for Foo Fighters autographs, my friend Cam came over to us and said that he had seen "that guy from loud" backstage while finger eleven was playing. I was like "that guy from loud? GEORGE? what the hell is he doing here??". From then on, I was on the lookout. Peeking through the fences to see if I could catch a glimpse of him or any other cool people to coax them over for an autograph. I was totally not expecting it when, during A Perfect Circles set, my friends came running up to me squeeling something to the effect of "George..run.go now..George". I couldn't really understand all 5 of them at the same time, so my friend Kim just said "Ivy....GEORGE!" They were also pointing excitedy in one direction. I looked to where they were pointing, and sure enough there was George. Trotting along at a mild pace towards the stage to watch A Perfect Circle. I was looking at the merch tents at the time, and I got so excited that I almost ran away with what I was holding [my apology goes out to the tent owner]. I ran after him, and stood next to him for about five minutes as APC was playing. Heres the thing, my friends and I have an unspoken agreement that whenever we meet people who are in bands or people like george ["our celebrities"], I always make the first move. Its been that way....FOR CENTURIES! I was pretty shocked at the fact that he was even there, never my the fact that I was standing right next to him, so I was unable to get any words out of my mouth for about five minutes. When I finally did say hello, he was more than friendly. First thing he did was ask me my name. He then shook my hand and asked me how I was doing. [note: there was very loud music playing and we were fairly close to the speakers, so whenever I talked to him and vice versa, we had to go extremly close:)]. He greeted al of my friends in the same way. There were about 6 of us. he also took time to take pics with three of us, and sign something for all 6. He adds an extra unique little note to all of his autographs. We ended up talking about various stuff. Like APC, Max Cavelara, and me and my friends drumming abilities. He told us that he was here to see APC and I felt really bad for interupting him while he was watching [sorry george]. We ended up watching the rest of APC together and were supposed to hook up with him for Foo Fighters, but we never found him. But we ran into him again by the backstage entrance while OLP was on and stood with him there for a while and chatted. We ended up being on "Gonna Meet A Rockstar". Ummmm yeah...it was a good day!