Tour Diary 28 – Tues 17th May – T.V appearance – San Diego Sea World -
Steve was asked to appear on breakfast T.V here in San Diego, which he was a bit apprehensive about, although he feels totally able to deal with any kind of personal attack now , but it was a in fact a really good experience.
The woman who interviewed Steve had enormous respect for both the subject and Steve himself and as they had asked me to come with him into the ‘green room’ to watch the filming, she introduced herself to me also. As she did I thought… ‘Ah good, I can see kindness and spirituality in those eyes, he will be O.K. with her’
After the recorded clip she immediately said she wanted to ask me how it had been for me, living with the events of Steve’s life? I told her how it had been and then she went on to say that she was currently doing an M.A in Spiritual Psychology and had been working with all sorts of very interesting subjects of which, she found ET contact to be just another element of our life! Brilliant!
It was weird being in the ‘Green Room’ to see that all the backdrops, which were appearing on the TV were not actually there. The man who was on before Steve, had bought in a huge amount of recording equipment and was making the most amazing sounds with just waving his hands over some sort of board, as well as using a Moog synthesizer. In the background however on the TV it looked like he was in outer space. They asked if he could do some ‘Woo Woo’/Space music to cue Steve in but Steve declined, thank goodness. What was good was that the man that asked if they could do that took no umbrage at Steve’s refusal, only said that he was glad he asked and had not gone ahead without Steve’s permission.
We got there at 8 a.m. and the show was due to air at 9 and all was live. What was brilliant was all the other acts who shared the dressing room with us. This morning T.V show has an eclectic spectrum of what is going on in the area and it was a wonderfully varied cross section.
There was a Johnnie Depp look-alike – who had a fake – Keith Richards/Johnnie Depp/English/cockney accent.
(Must have been because the new Pirates film is about to come out)
2 Grey hounds and a mixed-breed dog looking for homes.
An artist who had Jackson Pollack trousers on and when I watched him making a picture I could see why. He leapt about all over the place throwing paint at a canvas which transformed into a picture of the Statue of Liberty’s head.. such talent!
The Moog synthesizer man.
Another wonderful artist, whose work was being used to drive a campaign to keep the beaches of San Diego clean. I luckily had a good chance to chat with him about what pollution was going on and what they were trying to do about it. As I suspected so much is the plastic problem. He said he had just come back from a holiday snorkeling in Indonesia and where he went out onto reefs the plastic pollution was metres thick and the sea life was really struggling to exist in the usual way…What are we doing to our sea life?
We spoke about my campaigning to have supermarkets give us the opportunity to take in our own containers for food and ‘fill-up’ at counters for whatever the food or cleaning substance is.. so that we can do away with all our plastic containers. He said that he thought it was a great idea, which some countries are trying to introduce… Not quick enough said I. I could have spoken with him for hours…
And then …. 12 tall and extremely skinny models – modelling bikini swimwear, which I have to say was almost non-existent. It was two tiny circles and one band aid strip…in pretty colours and sequined with crystal beads..
One had arrived in the swimwear so that must have woken up much of the male San Diego population on her journey in!!
I was so glad I was seated, as I would have disappeared standing. Steve was underwhelmed as he doesn’t find skinny women at all attractive and he could not believe what poor skin they had. An effect I feel of a diet very lacking in any sort of nutriment… They were like a flock of twittering birds but were all very sweet and caring of each other.
They were lovely girls , and it was great to watch them all preening and forcing their poor toes into the Christian Laboutin – 4 + 1/2” heels complete with 2” platform soles. Soooooooo glad I no longer have to wear shoes like that. It so reminded me of my days at Playboy and the dread we used to have of ‘O.K now I have to get my feet into those shoes…’ especially once they introduced these 4+1/2” To stand around all night on those was crippling. You can bet if the male dealers or Inspectors had been made to wear them that they would have had us in Hush Puppies in no time. However, Hush puppies and a Bunny costume does not somehow look at all appealing.
It was a lovely experience and we only had to wait for 10 minutes at the end of the show… (Steve was on last), and they gave Steve a copy of the show which we hope he can soon put onto his You Tube site as people are already sending him E mails asking for that to be done.
We then went straight from there to the home of a Mufon Researcher that we had met at Steve’s talk the day before, who wanted to do a recording with him to put out on her You Tube site. She also wants to have him do a Radio session with him, Internet Talk Radio is really big here in the States and Steve is getting lots of requests to take part with different people.
We then left late and guess what!!.. ended up in the rush hour traffic of L.A. However as there were two of us we didn’t have to kidnap anyone to sail through in the Car pool lane and Steve was once again in 7th heaven as he just passed all the stationery traffic trying to circumnavigate L.A. We arrived at our Hotel and felt that it had been a very productive day. With a talk arranged for tonight and tomorrow it is quite a lot to get in and also we have the added joy of having our friend Toni fly in from Dallas just to be with us and her daughter and spent the next few days with us. Sounds simple but for us in England it is like someone who lives in the South of Spain saying ‘ Oh I’ll pop in to see you in London if you are going to be there.’ We sooo appreciate the time and care she is taking to come see us again.
Her daughter whom we met tonight (another amazingly beautiful young girl who has such vibrant personality)… has arranged a very special evening for us in L.A. at the Magic Castle. It is very hard to get into, members only costing hundreds of dollars and you have to wear evening clothes, which Steve does not have with him.
So Toni has bought them with her, borrowed from her lovely husband Jon, and Steve has said that he has ‘sensed’ that these clothes want to live with him, Steve. The fact that the jacket borrowed is the most exquisite soft leather I have ever felt might have had something to do with it… There is also a borrowed tie and a gift of a lovely shirt for Steve. I still cannot get used to the incredible kindness and generosity of heart of the American people. It is not one-offs. In every walk of life, especially in the hospitality section of their society these people just exude kindness and care and so I get very defensive at home in England when I get told that Americans are… ….whatever labels get thrown at them… I always respond.. ‘don’t link these people with their governments or the policies of their governments… there is no connection. The ordinary man in the street is loving caring and kind.. especially so’ We usually follow on from American trends, but we British lag far behind in this element of care and ‘interest in all Beings’ which the Americans exhibit…. I only wish that the world could experience the true Americans and not the Media Americans…. Everyone we have ever spoken to in America is totally against the policies of their government and I had such an interesting talk last night with the Mufon director talking about how this is the theme of Steve’s book, that it is now time for us to start saying.. ‘No, this is totally unacceptable and we are not going to go along with what you tell us you are going to do.’ He said he had never heard such inspirational words as Steve’s on this theme.
So many people, again, came up to the organisers and said that Steve was the best talk they had ever heard at a Mufon meeting.
These were two talks he did in a row here at L.A. By the time Sunday is over he would have done 4 in one week. Quite a feat….
Again so many Experiencers are coming up to both of us and saying how much it means to have people like us here, talking and being available to help them come to terms with what it means to be out of synch with the rest of the world because of this strange life with contact with exotic Beings is happening for them or their families. I was able also to catch up with a dear friend of mine Barbara Lamb, who is a brilliant researcher and the foremost expert on Crop Circles. She will be presenting at the Yearly Mufon Symposium in LA when we are due to be in Rhode Island for the yearly gathering. So we wouldn’t have seen her there. She said that she has been talking about Steve’s experiences in her own presentations because of how firstly how unusual they are but also because there are third party witnesses.
Sea World
What can I say about all the wonderful creatures in this place.? It is again that love/hate thing. I just love to be so close to them especially the Killer Whales and the dolphins… but I am sad they are captive.
But the fun was had by me, ….or no wait.. it was Steve having the fun being able to say… ‘I Told You So’ over and over.
Why was this… well….
I wanted to go on the rapids ride.
There was a sign saying you would get wet. But I watched people coming off and it appeared that they got wet right at the end when they went under two spouting water jets. So I worked out that if we put my poncho over our heads at this point it would take the water and we would keep dry. Steve disagreed and so refused to come on it with me.
I sat with 4 adults and a delightful little girl who kept gleefully smiling at me. As I was about to sit down I was a bit peeved to see a little tiny patch of water on the seat as I thought.. “I will end up with a little wet patch on my trousers”.. so I wiped it off with a tissue.
You have to keep this image in your mind, me trying to ensure I did not get a tiny patch of water on my shorts.
So we started off.. went over the first rapid, which I was facing and a wall of water came over the side, all over me and into the bottom of the boat and our feet were under a foot of water. Arrghh!! I put my dripping feet up on the middle bar thinking they might drain off but as we continued the water kept coming in over each rapid. But at least, I was thinking, my hair was dry even if I was drenched from head to toe, that is until we went under the waterfall…..
What can I say… I’m sure you can get the picture…
I wish I had the camera for Steve’s face as I got out of the boat, literally with water coming out of the bottom turn-ups of my shorts and my hair dripping.
Ever mindful of taking loads of money off you… ($12.00 to park .. $140.00 for tickets!) Sea World puts a drying cubicle just at the exit of this ride. For $5.00 you can blow hot air up your jumper to try to dry out. Steve came in to try to help me, but I was so wet it would have taken about 10 goes to get dry.
So as well as getting a water bashing.. I got an ear bashing and no amount of trying to explain the unfairness of hitting us with a waterfall was going to change his mind that it had been a silly notion… I spent a miserable rest of the day, trying to dry out in the hot sun, which made me not careful enough with sun exposure and consequently I burnt my shoulders.
One day I will grow up and not want to do the rides…. One day……
Much love
Annie
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