The Trifecta is complete!!! Well since I knew nothing could pretty much surpass the experience of meeting and chatting with Clay in Worcester, I went really just to have a blast and make sure Clay saw the MOO sign!!! Well both of those were accomplished!

Well let me tell you...this MOO sign has taken on a like of itself....it had more fans than some of the idols....

WAITING FOR BUSES

Senorita and I arrived at the center at around 1:30pm...our intention was to scope out the location to wait for the buses and then head off to get a nice lunch. So we pull up to the back area where the buses are...and DAMN there are already buses there and Clay fans standing outside. I tell Senorita "I think the sit down lunch is scrapped, we gotta check this out!" So we park and head over to see what is up.

The buses there were the crew...the idols were due around 3:00pm. So what to do??? HMMMMMMMMMMMM, well we decide we better eat SOMETHING so Senorita heads off with another Claymate Mommy and she leaves her teenage kids in my custody..LOL are you sure you want to do that Miss???

They hit Dunkin Donuts (get it? Dunkin Donuts for the Dunkin Donuts Center?) and bring back Donuts for all the security guards too....nothing says preferential treatment from Security like FREE DONUTS!!! Well it was DAMN hot out there...and the updates kept coming in that they were running later and later....stuck in traffic in New Haven! Ironically MixNJude is driving up from Connecticut at the same time stuck in the same traffic..or as I started to wonder.."Maybe she's just jumped out of her car and BOLTED in front on the Buses on
I-95!!!!"

When we got there there were like 6 of us total, by 3:30 maybe 20. The wild part was that people kept coming up to us and saying "YOUR THE MOO GIRL" or "THATS THAT SIGN CLAY WAS TALKING ABOUT IN WORCESTER" and asking to take OUR pictures! LOL..Scott the security guard made some crack about us needing to hire him soon...thanks buddy but I think we can take 'em if we needed to!

We saw clay_8kens_rules and Tatiana from this board there. Lots of cool things about Tatiana coming up later, but she walkeed right up to us and said your lylekira and senorita aren't you??? Its just so great to meet all these friends in person...like a big Bolt reunion!!!

So now we've been there like 3 hours and we're damn sweaty and gross...definately already smelling like a mens lockeroom and the show hadn't even begun. Scott the security guy kept giving us updates on the buses locations and letting us steal a few minutes over by the AC at the security office....DONUTS ARE LIKE MAGIC....oh that and Scott seemed pretty fond of Senorita and her big basket of cleavage!!!! So he actually takes her into the arena and points our where are seats are for our clarification....YOU GO GIRL!!! WAY TO WORK IT!!! LOL!!

So FINALLY at about 5:15pm the buses pull up the street. The crowd has swelled to about 50 and 48 were Clay fans. There was one Ruben fan there that showed up in a red shirt and was SO PISSED that she was wearing "Clay Colors" that she was about to run to the mall and buy a new shirt.....Scott and I just shook our heads laughing.

So everyone kind of runs over to the street part to wave and catch glimpse but we don't move because we know they have to come into the lot and head right our way...so I've got the MOO sign and we know which bus Clay is on cause he'd been waving out the window already. As the bus pulls in close enough to where I'm standing I see an arm pop out of the window and point to my sign. Then the arm (not sure who's) taps Clay on the shoulder and he leans out the window and points to the MOO sign and waves!!!! HE NOW KNOWS WE KEPT OUR PROMISE TO SEE HIM IN PROVIDENCE...this was first CONTACT...but not even close to last contact!

The buses pull up to park and the crowd runs along this wall that is above the parking lot BUT RIGHT BELOW US!!!! They park the bus that Clay is on, we somehow ended up right next to that one. This wall was the only thing seperating 50 crazed fans and the guys on the bus..we could actually reach out and knock on the window if we wanted...but we did not (see we're not too rabid!!!)

I see Jerome clear as day standing in the front of the bus so I know Clay is still on it...but RUBEN comes out first. He steps off and peers between the two buses (cause they are parked back to back) and the poor guy LOOKED TERRIFIED!!!! I'm not sure if it was because he was afraid the security was too lax (cause it was) or that he was just confused that all these people holding Clay signs, all of a sudden started screaming for him and switching sides quicker than Anne Heche! He did a quick wave and was off.

Clay steps off next...he's fully made up for the show already cause they were running so late...he was wearing lots of Bronzer!!!! The crowd went BONKERS!!!! He glanced up very quickly not making any eye contact and waved...he was gone in a blink of an eye....

But he was once again within 10 feet of us...and still as adorable as he was last week!!!

Okay...not as exciting as some of our other experiences..but at least at this point I know he saw my sign and waved to me....it would not be the last time tonight!!!

CLAYMATE GATHERING

So now it is about 5:30 we are sweating like banshees ...our mouths are like we swallowed dirt they are so dry and we have people to meet at Trinity Brew Pub including my hubby LYLE! We walked over with a bunch of Claymates from Bolt including MixnJude, her neice Brooke and Jade from the board was there...it really was like seeing old friends.

We had some drinks and freshened up. I had my Moo sign sitting on the back of my chair and I must have had 10 people come up and say something about it because it also had clay's signature on it from Worcester so people kept asking about it...

And then MixnJude and some other Claymates from the Bus area sent other people over because they told them Senorita and I met Clay and we had pictures....I showed that one picture of Senorita and I and Clay to more strangers...it was very funny! Lyle kept laughing and shaking his head. BUT LADIES...he too was eating it up since y'all were telling him how cute he was...I thought his head might swell to this size of sputnik...he plays cool but I know inside he was diggin' it!!! wink wink!

CONCERT NEXT....

THIS IS THE NIGHT

So the first thing I notice about this PROVIDENCE show is that is gonna be the hottest!!! I don't mean in the PHAT or HIP way...but in temperature....THAT ARENA WAS SO HOT INSIDE..the AC was not doing what its paid to do....Clay even said so on stage!

So we go to our seats...ok try to imagine watching a concert from stage right, where all the crew stands...cause where our seats were. They were the very first row all the way over to the right side of the stage (to the right if you are ON the stage)..it might as well have been backstage since we could see everything going on back there, as well as a great view of the crowd as the performers on stage see it...REALLY COOL VIEW!

Well the seats were also elevated so it was right inline with their viewing when they came over to that side (and this was also CLAY'S DOMINANT SIDE!!!)

At first we worried this was gonna be a bust of a crowd....no one was standing!!! In Worcester the floor stood the whole night, but the crowd started off really low key until you know who...go ahead guess??? Take one wild guess who finally unleashed the inner 14 year olds of everyone there??? Have you figured it out yet?? Yeah..so it was Clay!!!

The crowd errupted when those first few bars of TITN came on...and there he is popping right up out of the floor right in front of us!!!

Can I just say..this was the best TITN performance I've seen to date!!! He was soooooooooooooooo into it...he was knee bending, jacket clutching, and doing that great alternative inflection of HEARRRTTT at the end...BUT here was the best part...

So he's singing out to the front of the crowd but where do his wondering eyes go right before the second chorus? Why, they glance over to his right...and he sees the MOO sign!!! He did the most obvious double take that you could imagine, and even Lyle said..UH OH I think he sees you now!!!

Clay starts to giggle a little bit and proceeds to sing "LIFT ME UUUUUUUUUUUUUPPP, IN YOUR EYES, IF YOU TOLD ME THAT THIS WAS HEAVEN WAS LIKE YOU'D BE RIGHT" directly to Senorita and I. FOLKS, we got a whole verse sang to us WITH a knee bend!!!! THUD!!!

(is it bad manners to THUD into your husbands lap?? I just want clarification here...)

Lyle was actually so great he kept telling us how Clay was smiling at us and that I should be blowing more kisses!!! LOL!!! Its really great because Lyle got a little action his way from Kim Caldwell later on.....

Okay..this is getting long again.....

CONCERT CONTINUED

I forgot to mention that MixNJude and us were waving back and forth before and during the show...I think people were confused why the folks in the 6th row (MIXnJude and Brooke) were waving to people on the side of the stage..but since we knew where they were we saw it perfectly when Clay blew Brooke a kiss...YOU GO GIRL!!!!

So back to the show. We had Clay fans all around us, but two very boring Ruben fans besides us. They were so boring that when Ruben came out to sing his first song he came right over to our section and SENORITA AND I stood up and waved to him and he waved back!!! Gosh, now were covering for other people as if we didn't have enough to do!!! LOL!

Also noticed that Tatiana was getting A LOT of attention down there in the first row...you go girl you rock!!! Clay was always singing to her too and I think blew her a few kisses or winks her way too...I love to see the Bolt claymates getting the love!!!

INTERMISSION

So not as exciting as the Worcester one cause there was no Jerome and no backstage passes, but we chatted with Tatiana and congratulated her representin' BOLT in the front row like a champ!!!

SECOND HALF

And it starts to get even better!!!

As you've heard, Ruben got this ENORMOUS t-shirt that some woman made...Clay was giggling so hard it was so cute and watching Ruben try to get into it was hysterical..he said "Finally someone gives me a gift that fits!"

There Girl is Mine was very cute. The finally gave the "mysterious Kelly" from that song a last name. I think they heard people thought they were talking about Kelly Clarkson, so tonight they said Kelly BROWN like 5 times...ahhh the fictitious Kelly Brown is one lucky broad...cause in case you didn't know, Clay ALWAYS gets the Girl at the end of the song!!!

When they were doing their banter at the end of the song Ruben comments on Clay's new white outfit...yes he's wearing a white suit now for this part. Ruben says (and this is pretty quietly but we could hear him because of where we were sitting) Ruben says ..."Clay you are looking mighty Miami Vice tonight (Clay laughs) Do you feel it coming in the air at night?" I thought it was pretty funny actually and Clay said very playfully "stop picking on me!"

Okay.....

The Best part of our nights is next!!!

More to Come!

I'VE HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE

Okay...so we get a few looks and smiles throughout the entire show...he knows we are there and whenever he plays that side he looks over to us and sings us a line or two...its very very nice.

Lyle is now enjoying himself as he has perfect Butt View of Carmen, Julia, and Kimberly Caldwell whenever their backs are turned to us...SEE THERE IS SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS TOO!!!

Kimberly Caldwell kept peering over to Lyle too, and even gave him a wave!!! I started to get this icky feeling like I'd somehow entered into a wierd 4-way relationship and I had to shake it off!!!

So TIME OF YOUR LIFE COMES on!!! This is the false ending song!!! But Clay is on our side of the stage like the whole time!!! So he walks over to wave "goodbye" to this section and now Senorita has her CLAY! WEAPON OF MASS SEDUCTION sign out as well as my MOO sign.

This is when we start to have a full blown conversation with the man while he's on stage. He points to Senorita and reads the sign and starts cracking up and then right as he is singing "I've had the time of my life, and I OWE IT ALL TO YOU...he points right to me when he sings YOU and then with a major emphasis he leans over his railing on the stairs and says right to me; MOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I about died!!! I was cracking up and I MOO'D back to him and he laughed and waved!

THEN he comes back like 2 minutes later and now LYLE is holding up a sign that says CLAY! CAN I HAVE MY WIFE BACK? with an arrow pointing to me!!! LOL...it was a last minute sign so it is hard to read...but he's saying "what does it say?" and squinting and you can see him speaking the words out as he tries to make out what it says...and then LIGHTBULB!!! HE GETS IT!!!

HE about died!! He brings his hand up to his mouth in an "oh my gosh" gesture and starts laughing......it was sooooooooooooooo funny!!! LYLE even got into the act now!!!! What a guy!!!

Well that was just about the highlight again because I got my MOO and we had like a 5 minute exchange with him while he was on stage....but we knew we had INVISIBLE coming up....

Get the Spritz!!!

The first thing to know is that dldube here from Bolt had picked up a stuffed cow what MOO's when you squeeze it, for me to toss on stage. Well we also attached 2 pairs of painties to it and a note. Lyle, yes Lyle, offered to be the thrower of the cow...I said "you do realize there are panties attached?" He said "As long as he doesn't see me actually throw them who cares." Well right before the song started Lyle wound up and hucked that Cow as far as he could ...

or as he now claims he barely even tried, and it had a bad trajectory!) It made the stage ...but barely..and Clay didn't see it land! DANG IT!!! The sound guy reached up and took it off.......grrr now this skeevie sound guy is probably sitting at home wearing one pair and sniffing the other while squeezing the cow for good measure!

Sorry Clay...I didn't marry the quarterback!

Okay the performace...it's one to remember, and pray for bootleg video people!....

He comes up from the floor in that crouch and then like the Tazmanian Devil he starts flying around that stage! He's no longer doing the TUG ladies..as we saw in Worcester and was perfected in Providence...he's now YANKING the shirt and yes unbuttoning it!!! He's THRUSTING with abandon..he's added a full blown TWIRL and he even hopped up and down like he was tripping at a rave!!! The man was on fire ....an unstoppable force of SEXY weaponry!!!

We got a few personal thrusts and a tug over our way that had LYLE cracking up...and Lyle actually said that INVISBLE was the best song of the entire night!!!!

Well we got another wave at the end when God Bless The USA was on...but then it was all over! So sad....but happy at the same time that we had so much fun and Clay definately remembered us and gave us some nice attention!!!

We tried to wait for the buses to leave and we even saw Julia and Kimberly C. signing autographs way up close (got a close pic of Julia) but then they tricked us and didn't send the buses out the way they came in and about 150 Clay Fans were left chanting We Want Clay into the empty night...foiled in Providence at the end...but no worries...the Trifecta is complete and I have memories for a lifetime....

....and Clay ...that MOO sign WILL be making another appearance on your solo tour.....so be prepared!!! Spritz and moist towelettes please!

Thanks ALL!

THIS IS THE EDITORS ADDENDUM TO THE UNBUTTONING THE SHIRT THING..JUST TO EXPOUND....

There seems to be a bit of a titter about this....yes, the man is unbuttoning his shirt now....he's either picking up suggestions off Bolt or he's practicing his audition tape for Chippendales!!!

He starts YANKIN and THRUSTING himself all over ..and twirling and right at that slow bridge in the song he starts to unbutton the top 2 or 3 buttons VERY slowly..just in time for the chorus and another deep knee bend accompanied by a major YANK!!!

lylekira sings...
"ITS GETTING HOT IN HERE SO LETS TAKE OFF ALL OUR CLOTHES..."

BTW..new photos are in my album. They start on page three. You'll see from the angle we were practically behind him looking out to crowd the whole night, but got a few nice profile shots. Senorita got a few on her regular camera of Clay when he was singing/talking to us...I was too "vaclempt" to even attempt a photo at that point!!! Anyway...enjoy!

last updated 8/03/03