Hey, I'm just getting a chance to write about how fabulous yesterday in Evansville was, except the weather which felt like the Amazon rain forest.

Heres the link first- theres about 150 pics and they aren't in order, I havent had a chance to organize yet.

http://www.martyk74.smugmug.com/gallery/59...370963388_spZyV

Cookie came out and signed for a real long time and took his time with everyone. I brought flags and handed them out to a bunch of people and we had a big 3x5 foot one hanging up. We he first came out from around the buses, I was the first to spot him and I screamed real loud and everybody joined in. The lady I went with drove in from Tennessee to come with me. She made three signs. We hung one up at the barricades that said God Bless the USA, Cook and Backbends. He said he didn't know if the backbend would make an appearance. More on that later...

It was Carly's and Chik"s bdays and some fans brought balloons and gifts and cake and all kinds of stuff for them. Carly was given a crown and royal robe to wear. Michael Johns and David Cook were given superman caps to wear and Micheal had on a Burger King Crown. David left a voice message on a fans cell phone that was real cute. We had a great time!!!!! It was amazing and I was spellbound by him.

So I snuck my professional camera into the stadium but not too long into David's set, security spotted me and put the kibosh on using it. So there are some of him and Michael Johns. Oh by the way, we had 4th row directly in front of the catwalk, excellent. We had two other signs and the flag. He held it up a couple of times like during Kristi Lee's God Bless the USA and she pointed at us. We also made an appearance with it on the screens. They had a moment for the trumpet player to play Taps in memory of Sept 11 which was very moving. And David dedicated My Hero to his brother and in memory of that day. We had 2 signs. One real silly that I had the idea after reading a comment he made in the tour book about thanking Grover Cleveland for the "stache" So we made a sign that said We love Grover's "stache" too and Grant's beard. He saw it from the stage and laughed while he was signing. Then during Billie Jean, we held up our Billie Jean Backbend for Evansville sign and he saw that and kinda looked at us like we were naughty, but WE GOT THE BACKBEND!!! He winked at my friend over this. Too bad I couldn't take a picture of that.

We had an awesome time and meet soooooo many nice fellow wordnerds. I loved the whole time, except the weather. I'm probably forgetting something but I was beside myself with excitement the whole time.

I'll put this in the tour section as well. Couldn't decide where would be best place.

You always have like.. the most amazing pictures.
Seriously lol

Thank you for posting!
I love hearing reviews, and of course, seeing all of the pictures haha

those are wonderful photos, you are a very talented photographer! thank you for sharing!

Wow, those pictures are amazing! You are an awesome photographer

I forget...where was the concert in Evansville? I have friends that live there and I am there every summer, so I probably have been there....I just don't know where 'there' is!

Thank you for sharing your story and those AMAZING photos! BEAUTIFUL job!!!

Marty, thank you so much for sharing those incredible pics with us! I do believe you caught nearly every expression on this man's beautiful face that could possibly be caught!!! Thank you!

marty!!! you have made my YEAR. literally girl... that was my my hero sign. it means the world to me that you got a pic of him with it. it has special meaning to me... obviously. and BTW....you are the photo queen!!!!!

I MEAN TOP NOTCH. TOP DANG NOTCH PICS........

AGAIN THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. you cant know how much this means to me..

Thanks Marlowe!!! LoL
So you are not the lady that was there with the sign? I'm sorry I don't remember her name and we talked the whole time and she told me the story of the sign which I thought was so cute.
I loved taking the pictures and Loved Loved Loved being there. It was the best day.
Thanks everyone for the comments

awesome pictures. great job and thanks for sharing

Those are AMAZING photos!!! Thank you for sharing!

I felt like I was there....thank you!!

my friend tonya took the sign to evansville for me - in hopes to get it signed by david - then it met up with me in tulsa for the show there!

Ok thanks, I couldnt remember her name but I had a great time talking to her and she told me all about the places the sign had been. Tell her I said hi!!! I think I sent her an email with the link too.

Hey Marty! It's Tonya! Girl, we had so much fun in line in Evansville. The pics are amazing!
It's a shame David and I weren't looking at the same camera. LOL! Oh well...at least we are in the
same frame together.
Marlowe had mailed 'the sign' to me and we were road trippin to Tulsa. We had some great adventures
along the way. Said 'sign' is still with me. We took a trip to Blue Springs to see the mural. I'll be posting
pics of that.
Thank you again for taking a pic of me with David, Chikezie and MJ. I seriously need to get a camera
like yours. All this pics are beautiful. I have to say Evansville was my luckiest stop on the tour. You made
it more exciting. Thank you.

look at my new siggy courtesy of my new bff marty, for taking it!!!

LOL I love it!!!!

I am going to steal your camera. Seriously. We cross each other in a dark alleyway, your camera is mine.

Don't mind these posts. Im just figuring out how to post pictures.

creation of word nerd

still didn't work