Mec in Sacramento, CA #waterfight

mec sent me her review of her Sacramento experience. ;D

See water balloon fight pictures here.
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Hey Paul,
I cant seem to sign into MVI so here is my blog, if you could post it, that would be great.

August 18th arco arena, Sacramento, Ca

Where to start. Myself and VI56 met up with Billy VI4 at Arco, the parking situation was less than desirable so we parked a few blocks away at a shopping center and VI40, Gwen drove us back with an ice chest full of water balloons. We saw busses thinking that they were the idols busses but they were not. Then we saw about 10 people waiting near a baricade so we inquired and yes, this is where they would later arrive.

About 1:45 pm the real busses showed up, we saw the gurls get off their bus first. Didi seemed uninterested, Kati waved and smiled, then Crystal came out and the rest of the bus thing is a blur. We shouted " Your idiots love you" she smiled and waved. Gwen asked if she was coming back and she said "Oh ya" we waited for what seemed like an eternity in the hot sun. Zynjan_Mike VI6 finally showed and it wasn't too long later that we received a tweet from Crystal, telling us to warn nonVIs who don't want to get wet to get out of the way. Again we waited and in the meantime Lee,Tim, Andrew, Mike and Aaron came out and signed autographs. Aaron and Andrew were sooooooo sweet. Tim was a hansome guy. Mike was nice too.

Soon we received another warning from Crystal that she would be out when they got done signing. Again we waited when we saw Crystal pop her head out from behind the tunnel and a balloon was thrown about 5 feet. We all broke out into laughter, then Crystal went running after talking with security for awhile. We started cackling like chickens, taunting her and then began chanting Bowersox! Bowersox! Again we waited and then came Crystal on the back of a golf cart drove by Big Mike. She was in a bathingsuit as advertised on twitter.
She began throwing balloons and then we started throwing them back. I hit her right in the face, I felt kind of bad but she laughed. I got Mike good a couple of times too. I then announced to her that I was the one who challenged her to this fight and to take a free shot at me. Her aim is nowhere as good as her singing. She could not hit me. She laughed, we laughed and Mike laughed.

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Crystal builds up the suspense for the #waterfight on twitter:

@bz2010_VI4 alert others outside that if they don't want to get wet they should step aside when they see me coming.

I have an advantage here. A faucet... and 9 other idols who might help....

NEthing U dont want to get wet please keep from firing range. This is your last warning. VIs please alert those around you who are not aware

Secret weaponry in the works.... mwhahahaha

As soon aaaron and tim are done signing its on



Here is another view of the MamaSox Water War! Video taken by Gwen


One more video


And a view from the crowd's perspective


Official tradition from now on in my solo anti-idol career: waterbaloon fight whenever Im playing Sacramento, no matter the venue.
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I almost forgot prior to that we called Arlene the bus driver over. What a wonderful lady, she remembered Syd and asked us each our name and shook our hands. Back to Crystal, after driving off in the cart at almost five, I thought maybe we were not going to actually talk to her but a few minutes later she came out. Signed autographs, I put my arm around her (sigh) 4 times because of camera difficulties, we had to keep trying again. I thanked her several times for indulging us and for being so kind. She truly is a sweet, humble, playful and loving human being.

Now for the show.

Didi- Terrified was good, didn't care much for the first song
Andrew- Pretty good actually and very good stage presence
Katie- Not really my type of music but great stage presence and the song fighter started to get me moving in my chair
Tim- I wasn't expecting much but he was fairly decent
Siobahn-very theatrical, not my thing at all but she does what she does well.
Aaron-this was when the show took off. I will buy his cd. He was outstanding and he really opened up on stage. He was very shy when I got his autograph but he left that behind on stage. Very impressed
Mike- another surprise, he was good. The second song was beautiful. Ready for love. Didn't care for the Justin Timberlake song much, but Mike was much better than expected.
Casey- Damn he can play that guitar. His singing sounded better than it did on AI too
Crystal- Amazing! Up to the Mountain had me near tears until the nazi usher came and disrupted it, telling us to put our cameras away. I loved every second of Crystal. She is a star, of course we already knew that. Great stage presence and the voice from heaven. She looked beautiful too. She mentioned the balloon fight, she had us sing a chorus of "we will rock you" and then busted out with about 5 seconds of Bohemian rhapsody. The crowd laughed. It was cute. She also had us wave our hands from side to side during "what's up" while singing I said hey hey hey hey, I said hey, what's going on.
Lee- He sounded as good as any rocker but never really was able to win me over with his stage presence. He did seem less nervous but I couldn't get passed some odd facial expressions.
We waited by the busses again after and saw the other idols. They were all very personable and they signed every autograph, there must have been 200 people out there. It was an amazing day and night. It could not have went better. I love me some mamasox even more than before! Before I forget there were a couple of Crystal fans waiting for her before the show who did not know about the VIs. They do now and said they plan to request numers. She won over everyone that witnessed the balloon fight! What a great day for the VIs.