Day 3 in NYC! Finally huh?

Wednesday was day three and my good friend Susie was taking the bus from Allentown, PA into the city to meet up with me for the day. Last time I saw her was 2 yrs ago when she came to Florida for a visit. I've been friends with Susie for 24 yrs and she is just a sweetie! She was also very excited to meet Ace for the first time.

So in the morning, Kimberly, Linda & I made our usual train ride into the city then on the subway over to Grand Central to pick up Susie. She is in a wheel chair so I wanted to make sure I was there as soon as the bus pulled in.

After lots of hugs we started our trek over to the theatre. Ace had told us the night before to meet him at 12:15 at the theatre so he could take us backstage before the show. He was going to do an interview with Shawna from Teen Talk also at the same time.

On the walk, Linda spotted a Costume store and she made a beeline over to it saying something about getting a crown for the king of NY. We walked over and looked around for a little bit waiting on Linda. I looked at my watch and it was 11:50. I knew if we didn't get going we wouldn't be there in time to meet up with Ace. So I looked around the store and couldn't find Linda anywhere. We walked outside and she wasn't anywhere around. I asked someone which direction the theatre was and Susie and I headed that way. I got a little scared but I put on my big girl panties and thought we would eventually find our way there! We arrived at the theatre at 12:15 and Linda was already there waiting on us! Couldn't believe she left us!

Shawna was also there waiting on Ace to show up. Of course he was very late.. by the time he arrived he only had time to do the interview with Shawna so we didn't get to go back stage. When he came back out, he went right over to Susie and gave her a BIG hug! She was so excited! I told her he gives the best hugs! He apologized and said he would put us on the list for after the show. So after chatting for a few minutes and lots of hugs he had to go in and transform into Kenickie. So we went over to the pizza shop for a "slice of pie" before the show started.

The show again was just fabulous! Susie was doing the squealing this time! She kept saying, Oh Baby! lol We had great seats in the 4th row and Ace saw us while he was singing and smiled. It was so cute. He is playing a "bad ass" put still was able to get a cute smile out to us.

Me and Susie

Go Greased Lightning!

After the show we went back to the stage door and the barricades were up. As soon as we walked up, Ace's bodyguard Paul walked up to us and said, come in side the barricade, Ace has you on the backstage list. We were very excited!! So we waited for someone to take us in, Paul was in and out of the door several times. Then Ace came out and said he was so sorry, but the theatre wouldn't allow Susie to come in with the wheelchair. So I said, We can leave it here, she has crutches too. But he said he already told them that and they said no. He felt really bad. So he said for us to wait until he signed everything for the fans waiting and he would just hang with us outside for awhile. There wasn't a big crowd like the night before so it really didn't take that long. As soon as we was done he went right over to Susie again and gave her another big hug and asked her how she liked the show. She told him she loved it and he was so HOTT in the show... she again said, Oh baby my boyfriend is going to get it tonight! LOL Ace loved that and he said, Well I'm glad I could help you out! Then he said, but make sure you don't yell out my name, but if you do, just say, Oh I meant you have a nice face, you have to keep up the pace, I like the way you taste! We were all laughing so hard that he just came out with that! LOL

So we all just chatted for a while, took some pics and said our goodbyes and got our last hugs. When he was leaving, he went back over to Susie, hugged her again and said, Don't forget Ace, pace, face, taste! lol

Susie is now in love with Ace too! She couldn't believe how sweet and nice he was to all of us. She said everything I ever told her was absolutely true.

Here are few pics while we were at the stage door.

Love my Ace hugs :)

Kimberly bought Ace this shirt and she was so excited to see him wearing it the next day! I haven't seen a pic of him with my shirt on yet, but hopefully he is wearing it. I also gave him a hat from John. Ace had been wearing a John Deere hat for a few weeks. So when John saw the picture he gave me a Cummins Power South hat to give him. Said to tell him that John Deere is his competition and he needs to wear the Cummins hat instead. Ace laughed and said he would totally wear the cummins hat for John! I never saw it while I was there however there were pics of him at the stage door this week with it on. John was very happy :)

Kimberly, Linda, Me, Shawna, Ace & Susie

After the we left the theatre we decided to go to Greenich Village to a restaurant called Jekyl & Hyde. It was a lot of fun but very over priced. We had 2 salads, 4 onion soups and 1 coke, 3 waters and it was $80!

When we left there we needed to get a cab back to Manhattan and no one would stop for us! Did I happen to mention it was freakin' cold & windy out? I was so cold that I really hated NY! But I couldn't find a shirt that said that, They all said I love NY.

Finally a cabbie stopped. He saw it was 4 women with one in a wheel chair but he didn't bother to get out and help with the wheelchair. he just sat in the car and popped the truck. I was so mad at him, that was so rude. Our fee was $9.75 and I handed him a $10 bill. He held it up and looked at like...is that it? WTF buddy, be glad you got the 25 cents! I wasn't tipping him anything since he wasn't man enough to help us out.

We arrived back at Grand Central, got Susie on her bus to go home and we made our trip on the Long Island Railroad back home for the night.

Here are some pics of a CTMH acrylic scrapbook I made as a gift for Ace. It's has some of his professional Grease pics in it. He really liked it! I twas a lot of fun to make, it was the first acrylic book I ever made. Sorry the pics aren't the great but I took them on the train!