We got to Canton around 6:30 with relatively little problem. We went inside and met up with Jenn and some of the other girls. I didn’t see Alexis til I was already in my seat and I felt bad cuz I was on the phone with my dad when she came over. I quickly got off the phone and we hugged. It was so good to see her again. We talked a little and then she headed off to talk to more people. Laura and I were in the same seats we were in the first time, but this time Sean’s mom was sitting in front of me. This concerned me a little. I realized I couldn’t woo and whatnot for the guys, especially Kevin, with her in front of me. I felt like I’d be going yay for your son leaving the group. But soon after she was moved to another seat, and another woman sat in her seat. The woman turned out to be Alexis and Kayla’s grandmother. But more on that later. I don’t remember much of the show and I don’t think many unique things happened so hopefully this won’t be that long.

Sean was great as always and he and his mom singing together was so cute. I loved tha Scott came out and did the limbo during Zombie and then Jeff came out with a huge bouquet of flowers for Sean’s mom. Speaking of Jeff, Left was even better than the last time cuz Jeff was much louder so I could actually hear how pretty his voice is. Then Scott and Sean sung My home again and it was really pretty. Taller than Jesus was the last song and it went over really well like last time.

During Off my Mind George got a very warm response to his solo, so much so that Scott changed the next lyrics from “Freedom could never beat you lyin next to me” to “Freedom could never beat you lyin next to George”. Again I said, “He can’t do that!” During Dancin’ in the Streets Kevin danced with a bunch of people, including Kayla. She looked so scared but she was so cute. At the time I didn’t know Kayla was Kevin’s too so in my head I was yelling at Kevin for picking the wrong sister. Poor Alexis keeps getting passed over L. BUT then Kevin said she should be a model so I love him again. At some point Scott asked who had been to the last show in Canton and people cheered. Then he asked who hadn’t and a lot more people cheered that I expected. I thought, “Ok, so that means some of the people that were here last time didn’t return…what’s wrong with those people!” I love how I get all defensive and protective of them.

Kevin talked about how wonderful it was to be back there and how they all wished Casey the best and somewhere in there he said, “Casey is the reasoning we’re here” to which I replied reasoning? Poor Kevin. No wonder he comes across as stupid to people. I know he’s not, but he seems to not do well with spontaneous public speaking. Later on George got sentimental too. He was waiting for the applause to die down after People Change so he could do his little chocolate milk speech/Whitney Houston song before Papa and he was just glowing. When the applause ended he said, “Sorry, I just had a Jerry Maguire moment.” Another movie I haven’t seen, but I gathered from what he was saying he was all taken aback by all the applause and love he was getting. He’s SO cute. I love when you can tell the Pella love what they do and they love being on stage. Later he came into the audience to say hi to some people, but they didn’t turn up the lights and I started freaking out that he was gonna trip on the chorus risers going back up to the stage. Thankfully, he didn’t. Apparently it was the weekend for the Pella to visit the audience. I think all but Jeff came off the stage in Sellersville and the other 4 came down at least twice each. Kevin attacked both Amy and Madelin and straddled them both in Sellersville. Wait, wrong review. Oh well.

Before Boardwalk the typical gulls and other sea noises were made but Kevin then Kevin started mooing cuz once again cows invaded the beach. So of course Scott had to squeal like a pig, making one very happy Laura. We decided that Kevin enjoys hearing Scott squeal too, so when he decided he wants to hear it again he moos so then he can hear it. After the barnyard animals went away Kevin announced that he wanted someone to come lay next to him and imagine being on the beach. Then he jumped off the stage and walked right towards me. He was probably just heading my way to go up the isle (I was sitting on the isle 2nd row his side) but I still freaked out. I have always wanted Kevin to pick me to go onstage and when John started picking I was sad, but I still wanted to be picked cuz I want them to sing to me. But here was my opportunity to get both things and I froze. I panicked because I remembered the previous night Kevin literally had laid down on the stage, so I thought he was serious. I don’t think I could handle that, especially in front of all those people, so I did not raise my hand, but I really wanted to. He’s still walking towards me/the isle and I’m trying to raise my hand but it won’t go, when some girl from further back screams, “I love you SO much” Of course being Kevin he lit up and made a beeline for the girl, walking right past me. And of course, he did not have her lay down next to him. So now I’ll never know if he was really coming for me or not. Stupid girl screaming. So he held he hand while he sung Boardwalk, but didn’t actually sing facing her much. He had no idea what to do with her up there, it was funny. I still wish I had raised my hand though. Stupid me.

During Wonderful World Kevin sang a good part of it to me. I’ve never had one of them sing to me during off mic and it felt so good. He sang almost all 2 verses before his solo to me. This art includes the line “but i do know that i love you” which he sang right at me and that’s not a good thing. Obviously it’s not true, but I still don’t want it. But anyway, it was really pretty and he looked so cute when he said it.

Scott again talked about John being a tap dancer before Surrounded but this time he made sure to enunciate hoofer and Kevin started cracking up. And that’s all I remember from the show.

M&G:
First was Scott and he stared at me for a good 2 minutes trying to remember my name. Finally he said Alana, to which I replied to no, Gina added he was close, and I said he had the first letter right. He thought another few seconds and gave up and told me to tell him. I told him and he practically yelled it in a “of course!” tone and apologized for forgetting and said he was getting old. I told him it was fine and he remembered it the other 20 times I’d seen him. He signed the group picture of me and the Pella from the first Canton show and stared it a while, pointed to John’s bandana in the picture and made some comment. I didn’t hear exactly what he said but it was something like it’s good that John’s not wearing the doo-rags anymore lol. Then I plopped the penguin on the table and asked him to sign that too. He kinda looked at it like WTF is a penguin doing on my M&G table, but took it and asked if there was something inside. I told him it was a cd holder and unzipped it and showed it to him. He signed it and I moved on to Kevin who already had my group picture in front of him. I swear he spent over a minute staring at it. Just staring, from where I stood it didn’t even look like his eyes were moving across it. Maybe he fell asleep with his eyes open. Hey, its Kevin, anything’s possible. Finally he signed his name and also made some kind of comment about John’s bandana. Then I put the picture of him and I from the first Canton show in front of him and he starts going on and on and on about how cute the picture is. I wish I could remember all the things he said. He just kept saying how good we looked and it came out really really good. I stupidly told him that he’s the only person I photograph well next to. He signed it “Aw, we are cute” I was half watching him sign it, and saw him write the “C” but couldn’t read the rest of the word cuz it went into a dark part of the picture and I started freaking out in my head that he wrote “couple”. The “I love you” was more than I could take for one show, I did not need that permanently written on the picture lol.

While Kevin was signing I realized there was no one in front of me and I still had the penguin to be signed by Kevin, but I decided to have John signed it in the mean time. Then I took out the Chicago flyers and showed them to John. At first he looked confused as to why I was showing this to him so I said Laura found these and it looks just like you. Kevin musta heard me and looked up at the flyer and he and John both said something like wow, it really does. Scott overheard them and craned his neck around Kevin trying to see what was going on. John said oh that’s Wayne Brady, I didn’t even know he was in Chicago. I told him I saw Wayne while he was in it and he was amazing. John handed the flyers back to me and I told him I wanted him to signed them since I couldn’t have Wayne sign them. Then I handed Kevin the penguin back and he signed it. I turned back to John and he had signed all 3 flyers. I told him he didn’t have to sign all 3 of them and he apologized for some reason. I told him I brought extra in case he wanted one. He said he’d take one and did. Then Kevin went to hand me back the penguin and informed me he had given the penguin a belly button by dotting the “I” in his name. He was SO proud of himself for thinking of that. So cute. I moved down to Jeff told him I love the new solo he’s doing, and I know he’s been doing it for a while but I hadn’t seen it before last night. He said that was alright and thanked me for the compliment. I handed him the penguin and he asked if there was something inside it. I started to open the zipper and George said it was a purse. I said no, it’s a cd holder and showed them. George saw the Wayne Brady flyers in my hand as I tried to put them back in the envelop and asked if it was Wayne and I said yes and also told him that I love Wayne and he was amazing in Chicago. And then I was done with the line.

There were only a handful of people after me in line so the guys got up and came around the table soon after. I went over and started talking to Alexis and her sister and they asked if I would take a picture of them and Kevin since they didn’t have any. I agreed, and Alexis and I tried to figure out how to use her camera and I’m pretty sure Kevin was standing near us watching, cuz even though I was looking down at the camera I could sense someone there and later when I looked up he was the closest. Anyway, I think the guys overheard the girls talking about pictures and thought they meant to get a picture with all of them. So I took pictures of each of the sisters with all the Pella. A few other people got their pictures with the Pella and after the last one they asked if anyone else wanted and counted down from 5 and after 1 Jeff and I both went ehhhhhhh! (sound of timer running out) They parted ways and Kevin immediately turned towards Alexis, Kayla, and I. I remembered about his hair so I told him I hadn’t talked to him about it yet and touched it a little. Literally as I put my hand down he said, “You can touch it” Uhhh…isn’t that what I just did? Stupid Kevin. I reminded him about talking to him about him cutting his hair before and I thought I wouldn’t like it this short, but I honestly do like it like this. He said he loves it this short, its so much easier for the summer, and he gets out of the shower and does this *runs his hands through his hair* and he’s done. I told him that as long as he liked it, that’s all that mattered. He was so cute talking about it. Then I took a picture of Kayla and Kevin first, then Alexis and Kevin. When the one of Kevin and Alexis came on the camera after I took it was really cute, and I sensed someone behind me and I assumed it was Laura, so without really turning around I said, “Awww, look how cute they are!” and moved the camera towards the person standing behind me. I say Person, cuz it was NOT Laura. It was Scott. When I got no reply, I turned around and was next to a lot of blonde hair. Realizing it was him and not Laura, I said, “Oh hi, you’re Scott.” *insert foot in mouth* Scott either didn’t hear me, although I can’t see how cuz I was literally 4 inches from him, or just ignored me and walked away. We waved good-bye to Kevin and George who were the only ones still out at this point and they disappeared as well.

Laura, Gina, Mickie, and I were all staying with Alexis and her family so we hung around the lobby while they cleaned a little and set the Pella up with their food. We took pictures of Mickie and the penguin since its her buddy and she didn’t wanna leave it. We started goofing around and I started running around trying to steal MY penguin back from Mickie. Alexis’ family had bought a cake for Sean cuz of his birthday and her mom tried to get Phil to get the guys to come into the lobby to sing Happy Birthday to Sean and cut the cake, but Phil insisted on having it in the home ec room where the guys were eating. He kept telling her mom to go in there and she felt kinda weird about it, and she told us we could come in there too. We kept asking her if she was sure it would be ok and we didn’t want to intrude on the Pella. We weren’t that loud talking about it, but we were pretty close to the open door to the room, so I’m pretty sure they heard us talking about it. And if they didn’t, at least 3 of them saw us when we walked in looking all uncomfortable and with faces like, “should we be here?” As we walked in they started singing Happy Birthday to Sean and I turned around to the others and said, “I can’t sing with the Pella.” But I realized it was probably the only time I’d ever be able to sing WITH them and not on a CD, so I did, but very quietly. They started goofing off with it and Kevin and I think Scott got all operatic with it and it was SO funny. At the end of the song, we all kinda looked around like, um we should leave now right? Luckily Alexis’ mom came over then and whispered to us that she felt uncomfortable, to which we all replied we did too, so the 5 of us left. After a little while of debating how to find their house, we decided to take Alexis with us and she would direct us. Her house is GORGEOUS. My house is the size of her backyard alone. If she wasn’t moving I’d ask to live with her. And her family is SO sweet. We all stayed up til almost 3 talking, sharing stories about Pella, and non-Pella things. Her dad is a riot. I kept telling her mom that he’s a lot like my dad and I felt at home. Finally we all went to bed. After we woke up we ate some breakfast and shared more stories. Alexis, Kayla, and their dad returned from taking 3/5ths of the Pella to the airport and we watched some Pella stuff and then left. In about two hours Laura and Mickie dropped me off at the PATH station in NJ and I had an uneventful, easy ride back home. Got home and all I wanted to do was pass out due to my 6 ½ hours sleep for the whole weekend, but a ½ hour after I got home my family arrived so I had to spend time with them. I crashed at 10:30 and slept straight through til 7 the next morning. Insane.