Celebrities Everywhere!

This past week was super crazy. We hosted the Democratic National Convention at the Pepsi Center here in Denver. We worked very long days and dealt with some really nice people and some not so nice people. The first day was a total cluster! Because the DNC "rented" our building for 10 weeks, we pretty much were treated like tenants. Even though all of us are in the event industry and have worked and planned several events, they really didn't want to hear our suggestions and did their own thing anyway. So, the first day they did everything their way...hence the cluster! Late that evening we met with the DNC people and gave them our suggestions - needless to say, the next two days were great!  

Even though we worked very hard, I had a great time. I wasn't so much into listening to all the speeches (even though I saw quite a few of them) I was more into the celebrity sightings!
One of the highlights of my week was shaking hands with President Jimmy Carter and his wife and then later shaking hands with President Bill Clinton. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. How often do you get to shake a President of the United States hand?

 
There were so many famous people in the building, but I only saw a few:
1) Muhammad Ali - we actually were asked to get him a wheelchair (even though he refused to use one) and then have a security team escort him to his suite. As soon as people realized who he was...they pretty much attacked him. It took him forever to get to his seat.
2) Blair Underwood
3) Taye Diggs - I saw him several times

4) Angela Bassett - hello Stella!
5) Biff - David Letterman's side kick - they tried to get us to be on TV, but we thought it wouldn't be very professional while we were working and all....and then the next thing we know, our Director of Security is being interviewed and filmed.
6) Charles Barkley
7) Rudy Giuliani

8)  Omarosa

9)  Deidre Hall - otherwise known as  Dr. Marlena Evans from DOOL!

10)  Stephen Spielberg

11)  Jamie Foxx

12)  President Jimmy Carter

13)  President Bill Clinton

14)  Senator John Kerry

15)  Ummm....several other Senators, but I'm not quite sure who they were! :)

16)  Martin Luther King's son

17)  Alicia Witt

18)  Ashley Judd - she is the cutest thing - we actually ate dinner next to her one night! 

19)  KJ - former Suns player

20)  Bill O'Reilley

21)  Kerry Washington

22)  Megyn Kelly - America's Newsroom 

23)  Oprah - we saw her on the last night - through my binoculars - she was sitting in a suite a couple sections over from us..supposedly Mary J. Blige was in her suite, but we never saw her.

24)  Al Gore

25) Tim Daly - from Wings

26)  Shawn Johnson

27)  John Legend

28)  Sheryl Crow

29)  Jennifer Hudson

30)  Stevie Wonder

I'm sure there are others, but this is all I can remember right now...I'll have to update this as the others come to me.