+ Remy Spies a Celebrity

There's something serendipitous about vacationing in tropical paradise. It's like everything you worry about - kids, work, the economy, what the heck you're going to make for dinner that night - just disappears and suddenly it's you frolicking in the sun like those lucky extras that scored an awesome gig making a commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines. So when we showed up to pick up our Luau tickets at the Polynesian Cultural Center last Saturday and they told us they were sold out, we were a little bummed...but no biggie. We're on vacation right! We're flexible, so we just bought tickets for Monday night instead and cruised into Haleiewa for some Mexican at Cholo's. No Luau, but Remy thought the shrimp tacos were super yummy!

Anyway, the hula gods must have been with us because tonight we showed up at the PCC for the Luau (pre-paid tickets in hand), were leied, seated & sipping strawberry smoothies from a pineapple when the MC announced that our very own David Archuleta was in our midst. Sure enough, there he was a few tables from ours and my heart went out to him as he was ambushed. Poor guy. There he was trying to be as inconspicuous as possible while he enjoyed some time with his family the MC outed him before he'd even finished his roast pig!


Remy was a little star struck, but there was absolutely no way was I going to allow him to scurry over and bug poor David. We watched from a distance as he shyly smiled and politely posed for pictures. I'm sure he's use to it by now and unfortunately it's the price he pays for being famous, but I seriously couldn't believe how rude people were. Some of them actually asked people in David's party to take pictures for them! I mean really - come on people! Be a little decent! Celebrities are people too. I wonder if David Archuleta, or any celebrity for that matter looks at regular people in boring commercials for Country Time Lemonade or Tide and wish they could take a vacation there because they want to take a break from their Carnival-Cruise Commercial lives. Normalcy and anonymity must seem like a pretty exotic vacation to them.




He did sing a song for us and we were lucky to record it, but the file is too big to upload from here, so if you want to see it you'll just have to check back. For now you'll just have to be satisfied with some pics.


XOXO
Lindsey