Miss Bianca to the Rescue!!!

---bianca told me that if the cellcasters don't call me back that she can help... and she has responded to our calls! She and Mr. Bianca will be our cellcasters tonight.

So the schedule is: leech off the Dreadheads for Jason Castro (I hope they are livecasting tongiht), then Mr. and Miss Bianca for the Davids.

---bianca told me that Tacoma looks like Carly Smithson country as a lot of fans have come in from Canada.

bianca FTW!

Here are the early Archey Reports from bianca from the other thread:

Tacoma Archey Reporter bianca reporting with the early scoop–

David can’t talk today (vocal rest).

That’s the big story (in my opinion) but here’s what has happened so far…

Gorgeous day today in the Seattle/Tacoma area, beautiful clear skies, low 80’s, light wind. My sweetie (call him Bernard) and I arrived early for the Fan-Blast shout-out and talked with Eric, Phil-E and Cody while waiting. By noon, the crowd was already more than double the size of the LA crowd and it only got bigger.

Carly had a large contingent which appeared to be from Canada. Other than that, it is going to be an Archie crowd for sure tonight if the bus-stalkers are any indication. It appeared that well over half of the crowd was there for our David. I met lots of nice people–most of whom weren’t affiliated with any on-line communities but all of whom had seen Rickey reporter videos (whether they knew that’s what they were or not).

We had a great and noisy shout-out for David at 12:30. Apparently this was the biggest crowd for him so far :D

Then the waiting began. We were lined up along a road leading to the bus area–it had a nice wide sidewalk, fair shade, and a good security lady to keep us out of the street. I kept looking around trying to figure out where the idols would be able to meet the crowd because there were no barricades or anything. There was a short chain-link fence across a driveway and perhaps 15 feet not across the driveway next to the building. One David fan had brought a tiny boom box with her iPod so we listened to David’s songs and I danced. Can’t help myself.

The Idols must have slept in today because it took forever for the buses to arrive at about 10 ’til 2. They stopped right in front of us while trying to figure out how to go in the parking lot. It was funny because everyone had really cheered for the first bus (which was the band bus) and was kind of quiet for the 3rd bus which was the guys bus. I jumped and waved though.
Finally they maneuvered the buses into position and people began to slowly trickle out. First out was David Cook and I swear I was the only one to recognize him. At this point I was standing up on the hill close to the small section of chain link fence. Most folks still lined the street and were being very very polite.

Carly went by with a handler and I shouted for her so her fans would know she was there–and she got a lot of cheers. Then Ramiele. All of the action appeared to be on our side of the buses from the building, until Archie popped out from behind all the buses and got a yell just as he was going into the building. He waved at me, I swear!

David Cook and some of the crew started throwing around a football and he got close to our little fence (by this time, I’ve staked out the corner by the building–but there are only 20 people anywhere near the fence). He says that he’ll be back out later and is very nice. He did get a (rude?) request to ask Archie to come out and said that David doesn’t listen to him. “Why not?” “Because he’s David Archuleta.”

Eventually Cook was playing football with Jeff Archuleta, someone else I swear nobody noticed but me. Michael Johns joined him and again, nobody recognized him. Now, granted, they’re a few feet away but who else is going to be wearing a hat with an Aussie flag on it? By this time all of the Idols have been seen with the exception of Jason. I never saw Jason in LA either–guess he was enjoying a nap.

So David Cook starts talking with fans over by our little fence and then–Carly and Archie come up!!! I holler to Carly that she has a ton of fans here today. David comes over and starts mouthing that he can’t talk. It’s so cute (isn’t he always?) because you can just tell he’s saying “Sorry, can’t talk, sorry.” He’s reacting to the crowd and stuff. I holler his name about 5 times and then say “Please” and he looks over and comes over to me, still explaining that he can’t talk. I said that’s okay, we understand, we want to hear him tonight and I point at my tee shirt and explain that I’m the artist. I’m not sure he understood what I was saying because he was so concerned about us understanding that he couldn’t talk. I got a small, light finger shake through the chain link fence and then he moved on. It was enough :)

Then Brooke and Kristy Lee came up–Kristy was right in front of me. She started signing things poked through the fence. I couldn’t see Archie any more, so I relinquished my spot at the fence to those behind me. By this time the crowd was 4 deep behind me (which was still just a small fraction of the total crowd). It would have been easier to stay smushed up against the fence, but I wiggled out and Bernard and I went home to rest up for the main event tonight.

As we walked back to the car, past all those people, I just wish someone had planned ahead for the Idols to be able to see more of their fans there. The fence area was SO tiny and the crowd was so well-behaved. They deserved a chance! I hope things go well for them this afternoon.

So that’s the early report. More later!