The Meeting

All my life I have watched Drew Barrymore, from the first time in ET, when I was young, till now. My best friend ( Holly)and I loved her and thought highly of her, even with her ups and downs in life, because I, myself have had those also.

While fishing with my family one Easter weekend at Lake Austin in 2011, we idled back into a cove to fish, while passing a jet ski, we made small talk, and then passed a paddle boat with 3 people in it, a girl sitting in the back. I never paid much attention to them, while I fished and carried on with my girls. On our way out of the cove, Lakyn spotted this woman and was waving to her and telling her " HI" as she was saying hi back and waving at her. As I looked over at this woman, I noticed that she had a resemblance to Drew Barrymore, and I thought nope, there is no possibly way. As we pulled out of the cove, I told Clint, what I thought and he said he noticed it too, but ever said anything! So as we pull out of the cove and into the main lake, the paddle boat came right out behind us, and again waved, we waved back, and right then I knew, it was her! I couldn't believe my eyes, MY IDOL, was right there! So Clint and I googled her tattoo on her leg to make sure, and sure enough, we were dead on. I knew that there was no way to get a picture with her or an autograph...as I wanted to let her have time without someone pestering her....so Clint and I moved on. Not but about 1 minute later, we noticed their paddle boat start sinking, we asked if they needed help, they replied with a polite "no, we are OK", so we kept fishing. As boats passed, the waves turned intense, and plowed them with a huge wave that sent more water into their boat, we then knew, if we didn't help them, they would sink. So off we went to try to help them and there was no hope for their boat, with 3 people on board, their only option, come into our boat and tow the boat back to their house....so on board OUR boat, the one and only DREW BARRYMORE...I know I know, no one will ever believe me, but Its the God honest truth, while Clint is helping the 2 guys onto the boat I am having a conversation with my idol, it was euphoric, we talked about tattoos, she showed me her butterfly on her stomach, that I also have on mine, she told me how beautiful our girls were, and she shook my hand and said nice to meet you and thank you so much for helping her.

So then I asked once we got the boat back if I could get a picture with her, she told me, " I am really shy"............................................................................................................

Talk about a HEART BREAKER........I was at loss for words, a woman, my idol, standing in OUR boat that we just helped, tow her boat back to her house and she tells me no........I knew at that point I would never ever get this chance again to meet her or even get a picture.....I was broken hearted.....

Soooo I knew that at that point after we dropped her off and we told them goodbye, that the meeting was by chance, a pure fate meeting someone you really liked, for whatever reason it was ( I thought it was by BFF from heaven that knew she was so close that she made all that happen for me to meet her, Thanks Holly! I miss you something fierce, even heard our song that night, that's when I knew ) I knew that it would never happen again, although I would love to meet her again, one day, I love having this memory and will never forget it! She will never forget our bright yellow boat and look to see maybe if we drive by, she will wave us down and allow me to get my picture with her.... hey a girl can dream cant she!