After hitting the redial buttom for what seemed like an eternity (in reality it took about 3 1/2 years). I got through and was lucky enough to get two tickets. Well the wait for Phili was as long as it usually is between the day the tickets go on sale and the actual date of the show, it seemed like forever. I had last seen a GB show in August '97, which was Central Park. So I was long overdue. As many of you are fimilar with what happens to us GARTHnutts when some time has gone by since our last GB show, I had developed a major case of the GBWs (Garth Brooks Withdrawls). To add to the withdrawls, I also was afflicted with another disease. It has come to be known as double postitis. Shel has nicely pointed this out to me and she is INDEED RIGHT! I'm glad to say that Phili came along and once again I would share in one of those magical night that we are await for(some of us not so patiently, may I add, myself being one of those).

After all the waiting, planning, anticipating, Garth came to Phili and is in the process, of completing 3 of the six night he's spending in Phili......as I type. Trisha was wonderful as I had expected. Then the announcement is made G minus 5 minutes. The anticipation I had been feeling just got so much more intense at the mere thought that in 5 minutes, Garth would be out on that stage and once again I would lay eyes on him. The opening began and out of no where, a voice was heard......not just any voice.........the voice I longed to hear, the voice that touches the deepest part of my soul and makes me feel sooooooooooooooo alive. Before I knew it, there HE stood, making his entrance out of the gand piano. As happy as I was that I was there, Garth was there, IT hit me like a ton of bricks.........soon he would be walking off the stage and no matter how much we made it known, we wanted him back, at some point, he would not return for another song. And as suddenly as those thoughts popped into my mind, the words HELLO PHILADELPHIA released me from my thoughts! From that point on, I was determined to not let myself think about what would come to an end in 2 or 3 hrs. from now, but what was taking place RIGHT now.

After The Old Stuff, he did Rodeo, followed be Beaches of Cheyenne. Something inside me told me that the end of that song was the right time for one of my signs to make their appearence. So as planned, I waited for the song to end and while he was coming to our side of the stage, I screamed his name as loud as I could. Well dontcha know it......he heard me! Came to stand at the tip of the stage and read my sign. First he gave me a thumbs up and before I could brace myself, Garth made a fist and brought it up to his heart and pounded on his chest. That was it.......my garthmoment had come and how sweet it was. I could help, but do it right back to him. So he just had to make it even sweetier for me and he gave me one of those G! arth smiles, ya know the ones, the kind that light up any room and sends shivers down my spine. Whatta man that Mr. Brooks is!!!!!

Garth then did songs like The Thunder Rolls, We Shall Be Free, Two of A Kind, Unanswered Prayers (audience was more than happy to run with it and sang the chorus). He also did You Move Me cause some many had signs requesting it.....I love that song, but they way he did it.....moved me like the song never has before. Just one stoplight on Garth and his guitar! And for you girlie out there like myself, who go garthNUTTS from Shameless. He did do the song and the swivel that has become such a part of the song. WHATTA SIGHT! Thought I was gonna loose it and then there would NO stopping this girlie from getting to da man and showing him just how shameless he makes even the shyest girlie!