K...Oprah....Part 4...Meeting Her
AFTER the Show
So...as you know...the Favorite Things experience was absolutely NUTso.
And...I was there with friends...this is important...
K...once the taping was over and Oprah said her good bye to the audience, the Harpo folks were having us leave one section at a time.
So we could pick our Burberry coat size (couldn't pick color) and Eileen Fischer lounge set size (couldn't pick color). Not complaining, just sharing.
And then go to security to get our phones, cameras, etc back. (This was 2004 so many folks had both phones & cameras...)
I think there were 4 sections to the audience...
All my friends and were in different sections...
My section got let out first...and we slowly made our way out into the mid-November weather...
There were news stations and lots of people milling about outside, carrying their stuff...
My guest and I hung out for about an hour and a half...right about that spot.
I REALLY wanted to hug and de-brief with my friends about the whole experience...
Two cutie pie friends had to leave.
And I REALLY wanted a group pic of us by the Harpo Studio signs...
It's important to note that I had to...well...nudge the leftover friends...semi-forcefully to do this...
chilly temps
high heels
Awkward (but AWESOME) bags and boxes to carry
starving
BUT...I nudged...cuz I (was) a scrapbook girl...
and it was HARPO Studios
and we hadn't taken the pic before the show cuz we rushed to get our place in line.
So...I nudged...we trudged to the corner...
And there was no one around to take the pic...cuz EVERYone had left by then,
plus it was on the other side of the block (Harpo takes up an entire city block) so it was away from the hubbub.
So...we waited...til a random couple was walking along and we I accosted approached them to take our pic.
Smile...click...yay!!!
Trudge back to the car...giggling about how our feet hurt and how we were so hungry we could eat our arm.
We heard something behind us...but kept walking...
Heard it again...turned around...saw a black SUV...kept walking...
We'd been asked NOT to leak anything to the press until AFTER the show aired on Monday...
Heard it again...kept walking...
If nothing else...we are rule following teachers...
we didn't want to offend Oprah!!!
She'd just given us the most insanely awesome experience of our lives!!!
So then we heard, in a man's voice, loud and authoritative...
LADIES, you will WANT to stop right now.
We turn back and there's a security guard there...
and...
the SUV door is opening...
and...
it's...
Oprah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saying, "Girls - I was just asking you where you got all that cool stuff!!!"
We basically behaved like Justin Bieber fans...
at first...
then we chatted with her for a few minutes...
And asked her to take a pic with us...
She obliged...
I wanted her security guard to take the pic (he was not verklemmt)...
But a random stranger was walking by and offered...
The fact that she also did the Bieber thing a second beforehand should have had me sticking with my gut...
But, I didn't want to offend her OR Oprah by being rude to the kind stranger and I didn't want to take up any more of Oprah's time...
Result...blurry picture...no shocker...adrenaline-hands and all...
but I like it...
It speaks to the experience...
Still can't believe that happened. Any of it, really.
My last Oprah installment will be about the spa trip to Miraval.
Not sure when I'll get to it, but that was an AMAZINGLY cool experience, too.