The challenge was to tell us about an unusual meeting with a famous person—giving as many details as possible!
Ooh — I didn’t think of Sir Edmund Hillary. My dad took our family to LA when I was about high school age to hear him talk about his ascent of Mt. Everest. After the talk, my dad took us on stage to meet Hillary. My dad, a pediatrician, asked him if they needed a pediatrician on their next ascent!
Several years later I was on a tour of the island of Hawaii. Our tour stopped at a the Rockefeller hotel for a buffet lunch. We arrived at the buffet line just as Happy Rockefeller was taking her plate to her table. She was very gracious and greeted everybody who was oohing and ahhing at her!
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VJ
Well, I once encountered Will Smith in an airport – much shorter than I had thought. But the most exciting encounter happened a year or more ago. It was a Saturday, and hubby and I were relaxing when the phone rang. “I’m in the neighbourhood, can I drop by?” the caller asked. I yelled at my husband to quick get dressed. Loreena McKennet was dropping by. A huge fan, I almost fainted. She’d heard about our work with Ukrainians fleeing war and wondered how she could help. Our relationship continues. 
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ghostmmnc
Natalie Maines, singer with the Dixie Chicks (now just Chicks).Her extended family, grandparents, father, uncles, etc. are old family friends of ours. My husband’s dad worked with her grandfather in his mechanic’s business. His mom was good friends with the grandmother. Their children and my husband and his siblings all knew each other. Natalie’s father and his brothers and father were/are in a band, the Maines Brothers Band locally. Natalie was just a little kid when my girls were little kids, so they played together. We’d visit and even spent the night at their house once. Later the grandmother moved closer to where we live now, instead of just out of the city limits, and she’d come over to visit here at our house, too. Sadly she’s passed a couple of years ago. Anyway, I’m sure Natalie doesn’t remember us, as she was just little when we knew her. But still, it was very good to know this wonderful extended family all these years.
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