Today was another awesome day in South Korea! It was the USO Spring Troop Visit! We just found out that this was happening last weekend, but Drew was able to get half of the day off so we could go! BECAUSE... some of our very favorite people were going to be there!
The performers/guests were:
Wee Man
David DeCastro from the Steelers
Dianna Degarmo and Ace Young from American Idol
Dennis Haysbert (Allstate dude)
Miss America!
Phillip Phillips
and
Dwayne Allen
Andrew Luck
and Chuck Pagano!!!!!!
Can you guess who our favorites were??? :)
Wee Man
David DeCastro from the Steelers
Dianna Degarmo and Ace Young from American Idol
Dennis Haysbert (Allstate dude)
Miss America!
Phillip Phillips
and
Dwayne Allen
Andrew Luck
and Chuck Pagano!!!!!!
Can you guess who our favorites were??? :)
Drew and I were so excited to get to see some of the Colts all the way over here in Korea! They were really the only reason we went! BUT we were pleasantly surprised by some of the other guests!!
The show was introduced by the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Winnefeld, who coined 500 service members after the show! (Drew was one of them!) Dude is super important and I am so jealous of his wife, who got to travel around with him and the rest of the people on the tour!!
The show was introduced by the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Winnefeld, who coined 500 service members after the show! (Drew was one of them!) Dude is super important and I am so jealous of his wife, who got to travel around with him and the rest of the people on the tour!!
The first to come out was Dennis Haysbert, the dude from the Allstate commercials. His voice is so awesome. He had lots of kind words to say and asked, "Are you in good hands?" haha!!
The second performers were Dianna Degarmo and Ace Young. They were both American Idol winners and actually met on a USO Tour and got married! I had no idea any of that happened, so I thought it was a sweet story! They performed a couple of songs for us.
After these two, Wee Man came out!! For you oldies that don't know, Wee Man was in all the Jackass movies with Johnny Knoxville... no? Still don't know what that is? Oh well.. He's a tiny little dude with a GIANT personality.
After Wee Man talked, he introduced the next guest with a little "song"....
Miss America!
She was sweet.. Apparently her boyfriend or fiance or whatever is a Marine stationed in Afghanistan. They actually were able to surprise her at the show that they put on at Bagram Airfield. Her boyfriend (we'll go with that) actually came to the show to surprise her! She hadn't seen him since September! Ahhhh can you imagine how adorable that would have been? I would have loved to see that! I would have cried like a baby.
After Miss America sang a little bit of Happy, it was time for the moment we'd all been waiting for!
After Miss America sang a little bit of Happy, it was time for the moment we'd all been waiting for!
It was seriously so cool to see those guys over here in Korea. We would have never thought to see such a big piece of "home" all the way over here.
After the Colts (and David DeCastro from the Steelers) threw some passes, gave away some shirts, hats, and balls, it was time for Phillip Phillips. Okay. So first of all, I truly did not even know that American Idol was still a thing. Phillip Phillips won American Idol in 2012. I've heard a couple of his songs and I recognized his name; who couldn't? But I had absolutely no idea he was such a good performer! OR THAT HE WAS SO INCREDIBLY ATTRACTIVE! The dude can sing and the dude is even better at playing guitar. He was so good!
He sang a few songs, one of them being his version of Thriller by Michael Jackson. I found out after getting home and creeping him all over the internet that that's one of the songs he sang during his American Idol audition. Anyway. Without further adeu, here is the incredibly attractive Phillip Phillips.
After the Colts (and David DeCastro from the Steelers) threw some passes, gave away some shirts, hats, and balls, it was time for Phillip Phillips. Okay. So first of all, I truly did not even know that American Idol was still a thing. Phillip Phillips won American Idol in 2012. I've heard a couple of his songs and I recognized his name; who couldn't? But I had absolutely no idea he was such a good performer! OR THAT HE WAS SO INCREDIBLY ATTRACTIVE! The dude can sing and the dude is even better at playing guitar. He was so good!
He sang a few songs, one of them being his version of Thriller by Michael Jackson. I found out after getting home and creeping him all over the internet that that's one of the songs he sang during his American Idol audition. Anyway. Without further adeu, here is the incredibly attractive Phillip Phillips.
The show ended with everyone singing "God Bless America". I was hoping they would do a super cool version of the National Anthem, butttttt... no such luck.
After the show was over, we were able to sort of "meet and greet" everyone. They all sat in chairs in a single row and 10 people at a time were able to stand behind them and have a picture taken. Our picture will be on the 51FSS Facebook page tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to seeing that!
I had a love connection when I looked into Phillip Phillips' eyes haha.. I almost tripped on my own feet because he was so attractive. (Sorry Drew!) I was standing behind Wee Man and in between Dwayne Allen and Pagano. I shook hands with Dwayne Allen and then said, "Coach!" and Pagano turned around and shook my hand. After that, Wee Man said he was jealous of all the love the Colts were getting, so I shook his hand too! haha. I tried to take a picture of Pagano, but Wee Man bumped by hand and it turned out like this...
I tried to at least look at Andrew Luck, but the security force guys were not about that. They pushed us right out of there. Like actually, physically pushed us haha. These people on this Spring Troops Visit have literally been around the world in seven days! They went all over and tonight they were flying out to Hawaii! They had a busy week, but we are so lucky they gave up part of their normal lives to come visit everyone overseas!
Today made me even more excited to come home so I don't have to miss anymore football games! Something like 60 days until we are back in the great ole U S A! And a LOT more than that until football season haha!
Today made me even more excited to come home so I don't have to miss anymore football games! Something like 60 days until we are back in the great ole U S A! And a LOT more than that until football season haha!