well i hardly deserve thanks for writing just that...

2008-05-14T17:01:00.000-04:00

well i hardly deserve thanks for writing just that :), and i even got the hammer thing wrong. it was really her smashing a bottle at the tip of the boat, but from a distance it was hard to see. anyway, let me write a little more then.

so the dinner and party seemed to be mostly before the christening. guests started arriving about 6 pm and gradually onward. salma didn't get there until like 8:15 pm, arriving in the front. i saw her and called for her, and she looked towards me, but then they quickly rushed her in through a private entrance. i guess they were running a little late. and her baby Valentina was not with her, and that can be understood of course. i know she flew across the country with her baby, as some LA paparazzi caught them at the airport supposedly heading to Boston (see http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/05/10/valentina-pinault-mothers-day/ for photos and more details).

so this was a private event, i mean the dinner and party, but anyone could easily have watched the christening from anywhere that had a view of the water out in back of the museum. so she walked down the dock passing a line of many standing men, i think probably sailors. then she made her official christening lines into a microphone and attempted to break the bottle, while the whole thing was filmed by cameras on huge cranes. afterwards she came back inside, did a quick press conference, got a private viewing of some Puma items in the front area of the museum, then left back out the front, although the main corner door this time. she was then shuttled away, having stayed at the event for about an hour.

but just before she left, i was able to get close enough (this time) to ask her to sign a photo of her, and she was more than happy. i'm an autograph collector, and i've had this photo waiting for her for like 10 years now, in the hopes i could someday get the chance to meet her. at first she complained that the photo was "too old", that she didn't like it, and that she wasn't going to sign it. she then asked me to pull out another one instead, but i didn't have any more (oh no!), so simply told her, "but this is the only one i have". she then graciously signed it anyway :), saying "this one is like 10 years old, y'know, you need to get some updated ones" in a funny kind of way. i then responded in the positive, "well that's how long i've liked you for!".

ok, that's better. and i wanted to say that i think beantownbloggery is the best blog so far i've seen in boston, and i just voted for you in blogtoplist. so kudos to GS for making it happen. very clearly written entries, organized well, and about relevant topics. so yep, please keep the celebrity news coming! :).

oops, forgot to say that the event was catered by ...

2008-05-13T20:11:00.000-04:00

oops, forgot to say that the event was catered by Wolfgang Puck Catering, as i could see the trucks there.

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