I got a phone call from my neighbour who works with Off Track Betting with the Woodbine Race Track. She tells me that David Cassidy is appearing at the Woodbine Race Track today, she THINKS at 1p.m. to meet fans and sign autographs..... I think she's winding me up!!!! She's not! She swears up and down she's not!  But there's nothing in his website about this... nothing in the Toronto newspapers OR the local papers... so how can this be????? So I grab a Polaroid camera..... and Dave drives me down and I'm there before 10a.m. and the place is deserted.... In I go, walk upto a Security Guard and ask him...is it true.. is David gonna be there... he says YES..... between 1-2p.m. My knees buckle.... I flash this guy a big smile and tell him he just made my day....  Now, there's nothing going on... but I head to the area where the Security Guard has pointed me... and there's a little booth set up with 4 chairs... and there is a sign advertising DAVID.... it IS true... he's gonna BE THERE!!!!! So I find a chair close by and park myself... and I wait and I wait and I wait...  Eventually the place comes to life... I get chatting to employees who seem to find me a source of amusement..... ha! Even the security guard wanders past me and nods....they can't believe I'll be content to sit for three hours waiting for David Cassidy.......ha! Now... around noon, I'm joined by a young girl of 21... a David Fan due to re-runs of the Partridge Family! .. then 2 women and a kid show up... and from there on in... the line gets longer and longer but YOURS TRULY is at the FRONT of the line up....... David is on TV around 12.15p.m. but I don't know WHAT station coz I can't make out the TV screen clearly from where I'm standing and I can't make out what he's saying so I dunno if this is just the TV for the Woodbine Racing.. OR if David is on a TV station... anyhow, he's HERE, I can SEE him on TV. And I was NOT moving from my place in the line up. At 12.55p.m. up comes the PR girl who's been chatting to me... she tells me she was speaking to David and told him about me waiting that long.. so now I'm thinking that David thinks I'm a headcase!!! sheesh!  She says he's 'on his way' and omigod the words are barely out of her mouth when the girl next to me says THERE HE IS !!! But I can't SEE him coz I'm too short to see over where he is!!!! But.... all of a sudden... he's there.. in front of me....walking over..... and he's taking his seat and sitting down.... and the PR girl is fiddling with the rope to unhook it so I can go speak to him, and all of a sudden my knees are weak and I find I'm trembling...and I'm taking 4 steps towards him, he's THAT close to me behind a table.. and I'm not sure if I can say HI to him..... and then.. HE'S speaking to ME... he's shaking my head with his LEFT hand which surprised me as I had my right hand ready to shake with....he asks me my name.. I say SENGA and he starts to write my name on a black and white photo..says is it spelt the way it sounds? I spell it out, I'm totally dazed .. then I panic as I wanted his autograph for ROSIE.. for her birthday. But he's  writing it out for ME and I find my voice and I say.. 'David, can I ask a favour?" and he smiles and says 'It depends...." So I explain that my friend Rosie can't be there today coz she lives in England and could he PLEASE sign one for her?? He smiles and says 'Sure' and how do I spell her name... I E  or with a Y .... I'm thrilled beyond belief. He mentions my Scottish acccent.. I tell him I married a Canadian, that's why I'm living in Canada. He says he loves Scotland. He mimics a bit of an accent....Then I ask could I take his photo with my Polaroid.... and the PR girl offers to take BOTH of us sitting together, I jump at this !!! And he says something about come around... I can't remember his exact words, I was in such a state of shock.. so I go around beside him and... wait for this... I push MY chair CLOSER to his!!! ha ha I do remember doing that, ha ha She snaps the photo, he shakes my hand again, this time with his right hand... and too soon... it's time for me to move on.... I get up.. collect my camera and take my photo and I said Thank You David and he says Welcome Sweetie.... and I move off to the side.... where I stand for the whole hour just watching him. I can't hear him properly but I get little bits of things here and there. The security guard and the employees all come and speak to me, man, they must have thought I was some kind of a nutcase....................one employee even game me a keychain, said this was a little 'momento' for me for sitting THAT long in the Woodbine Race Track to see David Cassidy..................... Then it was time for David to leave. God, the hour FLEW past.....away to join Sue and Beau 'upstairs'.... I watch him walk away.... and then whip over to the table where he'd sat and pick up the 'cap' from the water bottle he drank out of..... the PR girl looks at me as if I'm totally insane... she says "you really want that?" ... I said 'oh yea" .... and pocket it. ha ha  And then I hightail it outa there.... coz I know I'm a source of amusement for the employees..... I'm a bit embarrassed at the way folk are walking past and staring at me........ ha! However, upon saying that, they were all quite lovely and one lady said to me 'oh you are just HYSTERICAL, I just luv ya!"  ha ha  Hey ...interestingly...one of the women in the line up had photos of David, claimed she's a close friend of Sue's... was boasting right left and centre that she knew David personally...and made a HUGE point of telling me and everyone else around us that she was just 'gonna nip up and say HI to Sue and David once this session was over'... told me her daughter was great friends with Beau....she gave me this funny look when she was walking away... I guess she was half expecting me to ask (or BEG HER)  if I could go with her. But you know what? I didn't ... I got what I'd wanted. It was 'enough'. I met David. He signed for ME. He signed for ROSIE. He let me have my photo taken with him. I got the bottle cap. My dream had come true.... what more could I ask? It truly was... 'enough'..... I truly was floating. I was happy... content. I went outside and sat in the sunshine and waited for Dave to arrive. I pulled out my photos and sat gazing at them.... I found myself nearly in tears. I gulped them back.... and tried to go over all the things he'd said... what I'd said.... tried to come to terms with what had just happened.. I'd met David Cassidy.... of all the impossible things to happen..... but it DID. It happened. I met David.... ME!!!! 

For the record, he was THIN. My God, he's thin. I was quite shocked at just HOW thin he is. Dressed totally in black. Black sunglasses ... prescription I was told. That's why he didn't take them off.  Lovely white teeth.. and his teeth have been 'corrected'.. that crooked tooth isn't so prominent. He had on a watch and his wedding band, a simple band, nothing elaborate. Nice. 

Anyhow.... I'm gonna forward the photo to you. And hey.... sorry this took so long... but this was MY DAY. Sitting on that park bench, waiting for Dave to arrive. I thought to myself 'dreams really DO come true'. Tina and Charmaine and a few other wonderful people on the List once said that to me, it's true. They DO come true. I also sat there thinking that if this was a dream, I didn't wanna wake up as this dream would have shattered me if it wasn't 'for real'. And don't laugh... but I pinched myself!!! ha ha ha TWICE !!! ha! 

Omigod... what a day..... I couldn't sit and type this last night, guys, as I couldn't settle myself. Dave took me out to a show... and even today, it's like I can't believe it..... anyhow.... if this could happen to ME... then it truly can happen to anyone on the List....  but I am SO grateful that it DID happen to me.. all those years of wanting to meet him.. and yesterday, July 27th, my dream did come true..... and the ironic part??? Not because of info from his website or the chatlist or Wendy and Kathy..... but because of my neighbour..... I just can't get over that. I asked down at the Race Track why David wasn't better advertised... they said they don't make a point of 'advertising' ... it's more for the guests enjoyment. The only place it was advertised was on the Website for the Race Track. So.. I'm gonna send a bouquet of flowers to Linda as that woman has NO idea of the favour she has done for me... if it hadn't been for Linda, I'd never have known....  I need to show her my apprecation for making this happen. I'm so happy ... oh crickey, I'm getting tears in my eyes again... 

Senga
XO