My second and third encounters with The Saint occurred later on that evening. After the concert a couple of friends and I went back to their hotel. About ten other Duranies found out where they were staying, also, and they were waiting outside. We decided to sit and chat with everyone while we waited for the "Magic Bus". Well, they decided not to come back in the bus and they arrived in a van. We had no clue until a guy come out and said, "Guys, they just walked in." Everyone rushed in and as soon as we turned the corner Nick was walking down the hallway. A few people said his name and he looked over his shoulder and said, "Yes". Then pins and paper were handed to him left and right. He was nice enough to try to sign everything especially considering the circumstances. That's why I wasn't surprised when Dave came up and tried to push everyone out. At that point my goal was to get to Simon who I had missed that afternoon. I saw him sitting at the bar with Warren and I couldn't get over there. I almost did when my friend, who hurt her knee at the concert, asked me if I could get Nick to come over to talk to her. When I went back over to Nick he was so distracted that I don't think he even heard me and the next thing I know Dave's hand is on my shoulder pushing me out. I did find out later that Nick did talk to her and give her a big hug:-)

Well, I didn't get out of the doors at that exact moment. I waved to Joe once more and stood there waiting for my three friends. Then I noticed one of my friend's husband sitting in the bar with Simon and Warren!! We couldn't believe what we were seeing. He was just sitting there and he didn't get bothered at all. He tried to get us to come over there when Dave got us again and we were promptly escorted/booted out. My friend's husband was still inside and we were trying to get back in to get him. They didn't believe us and pretty soon we were sitting on the sidewalk. Sana had a bag full of gifts for them and she never thought she would get the chance to give them to them. Then her husband comes outside and tells us to come with him. It turns out while we were outside he was talking to Nick about how long Sana has been a fan and Nick said to bring her in!! So all four of us got in!!! We had a little row with security trying to get back in but we made it. I have to admit as soon as we walked in I headed straight for Simon. He was the only one I missed so I wanted to get a quick autograph before heading to Nick.

As soon as I stood next to him I didn't get a chance to say anything because as soon as he saw me he said, "I saw you baby. I saw you out there shakin' that booty. You were shakin' that booty!" My jaw dropped. I had to turn around to make sure he was talking to me and I kept saying, "Me? You saw me?" He just kept rubbing my shoulder and repeating the same thing. I couldn't believe I just got recognized by Simon LeBon. Warren remembered me from that afternoon. He almost said my name right and signed another autograph. He put a heart on this one. Warren also fancied me a bit. I'm not sure if he was serious but I don't touch married men. Then my friend cut in front of me before I could get Simon's autograph so I had to wait a few minutes. When my turn finally came he was still talking about my bum and he sign the postcard ,"I see ya baby...Simon LeBon." That is one moment I'll never forget.

While I was with Simon and Warren I was waiting for a seat to open up by Nick. As soon as one did I claimed it and I said. "Hi Nick". He turned his head and said, "Hi" and smiled. I got as far as telling him my name and then Dave came over saying I took his seat. I tried to get him to get another but I'm not as charming as Nick so I tried moving one seat over. A girl who was with them said that seat was taken. I stood there for a minute weighed my options then I decided to just sit in the floor. Nick saw my dilemma but when I sat down he just giggled. Then Dave said,"Oh no. I can't have you sit on the floor. Come on and take this seat." No aruguments here:-)

When I got up Nick kept saying, "You're good. You know how to get what you want." Why thank you:-) Then Nick asked me were I was from and we were off talking from there. He is soooooo easy to talk to that I forgot I was talking to Nick Rhodes. When he talks to you he focuses all of his attention on you and I felt like I was only person in the room. We mainly talked about the tour. He asked me so many questions that I forgot most of the one's I've always wanted to ask him. There was a point when my friend came over and asked Nick a question about something he said in an interview in 1984. He didn't remember and my friend turned to back up what she said. Since, I'm a youngin I had no clue and said,"How would I know?" She said "Oh Yeah. Were you even born?" I said, "Yeah I was born, I'm twenty, but then I was four." Nick broke out in this huge laugh. Everytime he would stop laughing he'd start back up again. I just looked at him like "What's so funny?" When he stopped he looked at me and smiled. I smiled back and I said, "Yeah, I'm a new one." He said, "That's good. That's veeery good." He was in a really good mood.

Earlier in the night a friend of mine gave Nick a pink feather boa. He loved it so much he played with it the entire night. There was one point where he tried to make a peephole out of it. When I get my pics developed I'll have to see if that one comes out. Earlier in the evening my friend gave Simon a wooden flute. He loved it and at one point was fighting with Joe over it. He was like, "That's mine she gave it to me!". Well, Simon starts to play a song on this flute and Nick leans forward and says, "No, that's to many notes." Simon goes, "It's "El Diablo" man". My jaw dropped and I believe my friends and I became the only one's to hear Arcadia live on this tour. Well after that charming performance and Simon demonstrating his ideas on the Kama Sutra with the flute:) Nick and I started chatting again when the lights came up in the bar area. Nick didn't like this at all and after trying to dim the light with sunglasses (much to my dismay) he got up to get them turned back off. It was so funny. He was being followed around by the video camera talking to whoever looked like they had authority in the hotel. Then he started looking for the light switch himself! When he leaned over the bar I took the liberty of getting a nice bum shot. He finally settled upon the security guard. Now, this was funny. Here's Nick at 5'8" about 160 pounds trying to charm this security guard who's about 6'3" and 300 pounds. He had him going though and the lights got turned back down! I guess Nick always get's his way.

I think Warren had already one to bed by this point so it was just Simon, Nick and Joe. Wes was never there. I didn't even notice what happened in the rest of the room. Apparently, my friend told Warren we saw him staring at us during the TN show. Warren was like how could you know I was wearing my sunglasses. Well, then they played a ittle game of him wearing his sunglasses and her guessing where he was looking. She won! I missed so much because I was talking to Nick but I didn't mind. It was always something I wanted to do and I finally got the chance. Dave came and started to get them all to go to bed. Simon did eventually and as he left he pointed to me and gave me a thumbs up and said, "You go girl." I didn't hug hum for some reason. My feet just stayed planted. He even waited a bit but all I could do was smile. I will next time if he's in a good mood. I did hug Joe, though. He's such a sweetiepie. So then there was just Nick and me and my friends. Dave was still trying to get him to go to bed but Nick kept saying, "Alright, I will in a minute." So then my friends husband starting asking him where he lives. Nick said "In London." He said "Where in London?" Nick said "In London, London." He said "On the rough side, where?" Nick said, "Oh, it's not rough it's nice. :-)" He eventually told us but the conversation was just too cute. Then they go into Katy and emails until they end up on Warren. He says,"Nick, Why is Warren such an ass hole?" All of us froze. Nick just smiles and says, "I don't know you'll have to ask him that." The man can definitely handle himself in certain situations. He eventually gets up and says good-bye to everyone after Dave finally got to him. I give him a hug and he's off.

So much happened that night I'm sure I left some of it out and I'm sorry about that but I've tried to include all of the highlights. During the evening my friend got them to sign her daughter's picture and asked if she could bring her up for her birthday the next day before they left. They said sure and they planned to meet around 9:30 a.m. Of course I went too and I'll tell you about that in the next and final encounter.