Adventures with Donny and Ian - continued

Did I forget to tell you that the train stank?! If not, there you are - LOL!

After a little while Donny disappeared (and it all ended very quickly, one minute he was there and then WHOOSH - he was gone!), glad he did it though, seems to be a relatively new thing for him - good to see! We then decided that we would go back to the Jurys Inn for a bite to eat - had a steak sandwich which was lovely, and chips, and salad and - a coke! Spent the next three hours or so gossing, errr, talking about various things.

I then decided to make tracks for the arena again and, because of the big hill, decided to get a taxi, and reception ordered it for me 'for a lady who wants to go to the Donny Osmond concert.' How did they know?! I never mentioned his name! LOL!

Anyway, he came, was really nice in the short journey, and very helpful, so I gave HIM a tip (just a quid, remember I'm from Yorkshire!).

Waited outside for what seemed like ages, they only had one door open when they did open them, then two. Went straight to my seat (well, sort of, went through wrong door first! HA!).
And - I was the only one there for quite a while, right in the middle of the wheelchair area in Block 110. Looked across to see where I am in May - the other side, nearer the stage - woohoo!

The arena crowd took quite a while to get in - for ages it was about 3/4 full - Donny fans are like buses, none for a while, and then they all come at once! LOL!

Eventually this countdown appeared on the screen ten minutes before the show started, and at about 2-3 minutes, the floor started shaking, and there was this low rumbling noise - very effective, loved it!

I liked the show a lot - he did a lot of the Love Songs CD, some stuff from the 70s, 80s and 90s - major bits were Let's Stay Together (keep the growl to a minimum, D, let the experts do it!), the walkabout was astonishing, how he did what he did was amazing, and how he suddenly appeared somewhere completely different was baffling! LOL! He ended up about four or five rows back from us, and some fans didn't ingratiate themselves well by entering the wheelchair area and pushing past us to get to him - BAD people! I also didn't like people yelling out 'I love you, Donny' in particularly quiet moments - ruined the moment! Specially during Sacred Emotion - dingbats! During LMFAR I had a Merrill moment - during this, pics of the brothers are flashed on the screen and there, right in front of me, was one of my very, VERY favourite pictures of Merrill with his brothers (well, I think they were there, it got a bit hot!) - it's a picture of when he was about eighteen, and he's sitting on the floor, leg out stretched, other leg bent, and he just looks sooooooo sexy - mamma mia!

ANYWAY, back to Donny! I loved all the different versions of Puppy Love (personally, my fave is the country version!), loved Twelfth of Never 2007, loved Soldier of Love.

Now, Hold Her Tight - been looking forward to this, was a bit intrigued. Well - loved the music, did NOT like the singing, the two seemed, to me, to be in different keys, and it sounded icky.
But I will ALWAYS love him doing Crazy Horses live - although we can do without the giddyups - not that kind of horse, Dman, you should know that!

All too soon the concert was over, and it was time to go home. I waited outside for a bit, as I thought I was walking home with people, but when the doors closed, I thought 'hmmm - probably not!' So, I made my own way home, with the help of one of the stewards who got me through the traffic queue at the end of the road, and two lovely ladies who helped me the final way to the hotel - thank you! Turns out we had crossed wires and I was supposed to get a cab, never mind - safely back at the hotel!