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Thanks for this, Pats! So glad you had a great time. And the banner, well, it goes without saying that you thrilled us with that. 😀

And y’all had a Cloudburst lunch too! Hip hip hoorah!

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Trip to Washington DC to see Rain at the Arirang Peace Concert on 5/8/13
By: Patsiiii @Cloud USA Forum (a.k.a. mustbenuts)
Fan cam credit: Patsi Koogle @YT (a.k.a. Patsiiii)
Images credit: Patsiiii @Cloud USA

I was one of the fortunate CloudUSA Clouds to attend the Arirang Peace Concert in Washington DC. Here is my short fan account.

5/6 – 5/7 Prior to having tickets and fully expecting that I wouldn’t get them, I replied to a CloudUSA forum post from Michele DeMarco informing her that I was going—tickets or not. Even if my only option to possibly see Rain was to stand outside the theater, I was ready to do it. Luckily, I received that coveted confirmation letter from Jiart for the 3 tickets I had requested for me and my sisters. Michele graciously offered to pick up my tickets on 5/7 as I wasn’t going to get to Washington until 5/8. Happy grin. 😀 Even though I was assured that someone else could pick up my tickets, the box office wouldn’t honor that. Luckily, Michele was able to request the maximum allowed per person (4), so it all worked out…whew!

Plan wheels in full motion now… Since it was confirmed that I was attending the festival, I knew I needed to equip myself with my Rain fangear. I made myself a CloudUSA Tshirt and ‘enlisted’ my nephew to make a CloudUSA poster which he did….nice job if I do say so.

5/8 Michele and I made arrangements to meet when I arrived in Washington, which was around 11:45. We met Michele a little later in front of the theater. There were some other Clouds outside the theater from North Carolina, who posed with us in the banner picture.

A little later, we met Maria and all of us had lunch together. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing our thoughts regarding our mutual admiration for Rain. After lunch, Michele and Maria needed to change clothes, charge phones, etc., so we parted. My sisters and I were curious as to whether there would be a rehearsal, so we went to the backstage area and waited around for about an hour. All we saw was the flower delivery truck come and go.

Later in the afternoon, we regrouped with the other clouds at the Starbucks across the street from the theater. It was funny because as we were walking to Starbucks, I noticed a Mercedes minibus outside the theater and for a moment thought someone (Rain) may be in it, but then decided he wouldn’t be in a mini-bus. How wrong was I? Shortly after we sat down outside Starbucks, we saw Rain (running), Sangchu, and Rain’s dancers going into the theater from that minibus. We could have died. Michele shouted “Rain”! His dancers turned around but I guess Rain didn’t hear as he was moving pretty fast and it was pouring. So close, and yet…dahum!!! ㅜ_ㅜ

The earliest we could get into the box office was 6:00 PM. Michele suggested that we try and upgrade our seats and I am so thankful for that suggestion…our seats were changed from Balcony to 3rd and 4th row from the stage. (There is hardly any space between the stage and where the seats start). We were all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thrilled with our seats.The show started a little late (7:15) which normally wouldn’t matter except that the last train going back to Philadelphia was at 10:10. With each new act, we were sweating whether we would have to leave before Rain came on, which ended up being around 9:35. Even though we were already so close, we saw some others storming the stage so my sister and I just had to do the same. At one point, when he come over to our side of the stage, we were so close we could have touched him. It was so exciting! I’m still “in the clouds” about it. 😀 

I planned on videoing the entire appearance but, idiot that I am, found out that I only taped the second song. Some of it had to be edited out because a couple of pushes and shoves caused the camera to go wacky. I will post what I have for what it’s worth.We ran our cloud butts off to get that last train and made it…. All of us had the most wonderful day… Well, what could be better than spending the day with such nice Clouds and then seeing Rain just a few feet away???? ♥

— Patsiiii

~ by Cloud USA on May 14, 2013.

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