Hello Everybody!
Well… a such long waiting time from May 2002 (when I got my ticket)… until the March 25th 2003… and….
… Here I am again… Ready to share to you guys another great pretty experience on Céline Dion. The Whole Journée began on Sunday, March 23rd 2003, when I left Sao Paulo, All the way from Brazil. I have chosen such Insane Aircraft but in anyways, it has just been a great one. I have made such incredible new friends on the Toronto-Vegas way. Well, I gotta tell you that this was a cool flight, specially because Daniel Dion (Céline’s Brother) was there, but it was cool because half of the passengers was flying to get to watch Céline’s Opening Night.
When I first got in Las Vegas I needed to find the Caesars Palace. WOW! I needed to get to see the Colosseum Live, just like, I needed to check I wasn’t dreaming anymore, I was In Vegas Already and everything was about to come true! WOW!
When I entered the Colosseum… Besides all the awesome places, I almost… no… I got nuts when I saw the CÉLINE DION STORE! OMG!!! It’s just a thrilling place for those like me who love to shop Céline. J From Cds to Perfumes, from pillows to sleep wearing, from t-shirts to caps… OMG they had everything over there (only between us, they could’ve had the Divas Las Vegas CD and DVD available and also the One Heart Album… well… now they have... but I Got to get mine’s at Virgin because one hour after their doors were open… no One Heart Album…lol)
Went back to the hotel around 4pm (LV time) and what a shame… I Can’t believe I had lost the Oprah’s Show! AW!!!!!!
Well… on March 24th I didn’t do much at all coz I was really tired after 19 hours of Non Sleeping Flight… Some friends called me from Brazil and also from Netherlands and America, to learn If I was ok J … I retired a lot, to get ready for the so awaited day… well… the so awaited night.
March 25th . . . The first thing I had to do was to get strength to the Box Office, at the Caesars, to pick up my ticket! After a long life problems I got because of my Brazilian address wasn’t matching to the ones they got on their systems… IT WAS THERE!!!! IN MY OWN HANDS!!!!!!! I was like…well… I can’t find words for that feeling right now lol
After having gotten the tickets, I needed to find a CD Store… and I get my One Heart Album, on Virgin Mega stores, inside the Caesars Mall… went back to the Céline Dion Store and got some other cool stuff… lolol…
After that, I Went to meet some of my greatest friends, they came also from very far away, from Netherlands, they are Laura Dubbeldam and her Mother, Dennis (from Global Céline) and Stephanie and her parents… INCREDIBLE GUYS! We’ve had such great time. We had lunch together for about one hour and a half and then… went back to take a shower and then get ready at the Caesars… Believe me… I was like pounding! LOLOLOL
5pm – We were already ready for the party time… we entered… lots of reports from TV channels, Radio Stations and Newspapers in General were there… ready to go on with Céline.
- REGRETS . . .
Well…. I’ll get started with all the bad things and then will step through the best moments… to relief
The first thing I want to regret about is that they don’t allow us to get our picture machines inside the Colosseum. It’s really unfair, specially to those like me who are coming from very far away, because we can’t have any memories back to our houses L
No business, it’s all about money! We can’t take any pictures inside the theater coz it’s everything copyrighted. If for any reason you got to take a picture machine inside and you take one single picture, they ask for your machine, remove the film, develop it, and give your pictures back, without the one you’ve taken there inside.
And the ticket… OMG!!!! I still can’t forgive myself for having my ticket lost. I don’t know if the guys toke them on the entrance, or if I lost it… Gosh.. the only memory I could have was that ticket… and I had lost it??? L
Now… there’s no use crying over the spilt milk… it’s gone and … what can I do?
- TEAM CÉLINE GIFTS
Team Céline finally did
something to us. They gave us a pack with many cool free stuff inside, as it
follows: A promo ONE HEART ALBUM, a Céline Dion Perfume Bottle, a Chrysler
Keychain, the Tour Book, and two cards… all awesome!
Thank you so much Team Céline!
- CELEBRITIES:
Among all the celebrities whom were there over the colosseum, I got the following authographs:
Maman and Papa Dion
Michel Dion
Elise Duguay
David Foster
Tommy Motola
Garou
Luc Plamondon
Paul Anka
Maman and Papa Dion were pretty cool to me. I tried to speak to them in French and they did say my French is going good
J I was carrying out a Brazilian Flag, which I signed a message and gave to Céline’s Mother… she promised me to give it to Céline.
Elise also talked to me for around 5 minutes (because she has Brazilian connections and she got interested)… LOL… cool for me…
She told me Céline’s A New Day… should change their view around every 6 months. Goodness!
- THE SHOW
OMG THE SHOW… WOWOWOWOWOWOW! I still can’t find words to describe it… Figure out
everything Céline said all over the rehearsals and everything people all around
are telling about it! Multiply it 1,000,000 times, there you go!
It’s really a visual show, from the very beginning till its very end. Of course, for those like me, will have to take it again, I mean, at least twice, because I could only pay attention on Céline… lol… she flied, the piano flied, dancers flied… She sang songs from The Power of Love and Love can move mountains, till I drove all night, also classics like I’ve got the world on a String, At last and What a wonderful word.
My heart beatings were like pounding all the time… when she entered, singing Nature Boy, I started crying… over the show, there were two moments to remember, first when she dedicated a song (If I could) to René Charles and all the children and parents around the world, and when she performed What a Wonderful Word. On Both, Céline got to express her sadness for the War Moments, for the Incognito times we are about to keep living… and begged the Heavens to let her awesome René Charles and all the children to grow, and let them make a better world.
There was also a funny time, as we always get a funny time in all of her concerts… after she had flied, she went back on stage to perform with no shoes… everybody smiled when she was trying to explain it was not a Budget problem, but a backstage one… lolol….
She performed My Heart Will go on too! And an Italian Song which I can’t remember by now.
- LET’S TRY AN AUTOGRAPH?
After the concert was gone and I was with all my stuff in my hands, like camera and so on…. Ellie, Rob, another friend (sorry I forgot his name) and I went following a Lady who had backstage passes… Believe me, she entered the “Allowed People Only” front door and we either… nobody asked us anything…. Easy enough? Yes… No luck this time… Céline was already gone… because she had interviews to be given.
Anyways, I have no words to describe how wonderful the experience was. If I haven’t met Céline Last year at the CBS Special, it could be the best one, because believe me guys, there are no words to tell you how the concert is… you have to go there yourself… And I am sure you will know what I mean!
- THE SECOND NIGHT
Well… when my friend Tatiana told me she had extra tickets for the following week of the Opening Night, I couldn’t believe, and when she invited me to get one of them, I almost had a heart attack! FOR SURE, I was in Canada studying, how could I deny such incredible invitation… there I was again, getting an another flying ticket to get to see Céline once again! What a Thrill!
On April 3rd, I got the chance to meet Maman Dion Again…OOOooops, we both…lol… and I gave the Family Book and some other gifts to her. Believe me if you want… she felt incredibly touched after learning we had collected all those wonderful messages only to be given to Céline. She kept holding it into her arms as if as she had a baby in it…lol….
The concert was also thrilling… how couldn’t it be??? When Céline sings Love can move mountains, the dancers go to the audience and chose girls and boys to dance with them…. Guess what?? One of them have called Tati… AHAHHA… she was sooooo shy but she danced… and?? You want to know?? Céline looked at her and said “You’re going pretty Good” …. WOW… Guys, believe me… I don’t know about you but for me, to have these experiences makes me feel so good. It’s a kind of weird but… I LOVE TO DREAM OF CÉLINE… she’s soooo special inside me….
The concert was over….
15 minutes later, we got our cameras back… and???? OMG… we found Maman Dion once again, now gambling outside… and she just let us take a picture with hers… she’s so cute, so sweet…. Thank you Maman!
Well… you know what??? We wait for such long time and what we get?? We get sad because it only lasts for no longer than 1 hour and a half
- THE THIRD NIGHT!
If I tell you we had the concert again…. Would you believe me? I hope you do because we did it.
Tatiana, Shalimar and I saw Céline arriving around 4pm and we couldn’t let she go away…. We run into the place she was entering by and…. Wow… asked for an autograph… she was a little bit late and then she couldn’t talk to us, but she has sent a man, friend of hers (Thank you JJ), who got to us, with our names written in, an autograph from Céline…. And the night was only beginning… LOL… I can call the April 4th my luckiest day, because I would never imagine I could get to see her ooonce again!
Tatiana needed to get to buy a tennis shoes, and we stopped somewhere to ask for information… there was a lot of free magazines with Céline on cover and then when the man saw we were fans… he yelled… “I HAVE ONE LAST TICKET FOR TONIGHT”… “it’s just 150 bucks (face value)…” Tati looked at us, we looked back to her… we smiled… WOW… Tati got the Ticket… I was feeling like jealous but… she deserved it… J … walking back to the Hotel, Shalimar and I were asked by an scalper if we wanted tickets… PEOPLE… I got another one for 133 bucks (ALL THE MONEY I HAD IN MY HANDS) and the ticket costed 150!!!! Isn’t it cool?????
After having that third concert night…I realize one thing… if you want to see A NEW DAY… you MUST buy at least for two nights… but why??? Because if you want to see Céline… you get to seat in the very front…. But if you want to look at the wonderful theather and the whole visual the show can bring you, seat as far as you can… I was like in the middle, not so far but not that close… and I saw so many details I couldn’t pay any attention to by seating at the very first chairs…
On this night there was a
real funny moment, different of the regular ones, there was a baby in the very
first seat… and Céline acted like a child … AHHA… so cute… you should have seen
it! There’s a moment over the show that Céline doesn’t sing and they play a very
soft music… ahha.. the baby slept… when she appeared back, she saw the baby was
sleeping and she said “It’s over, I will not sing anymore until the baby wakes
up” …. She’s soooooo sweet ….
Of course the show went on but… you see??? Céline goes like a child just to see
another one that makes her to remember of her son…
J
Believe me guys…
Céline, Dragone and the whole crew
THEY REALLY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! You are unbelievable!
Estevam Peric
April 6th 2003.