Baking, Mars & BTR

We've had a busy couple of days here at Chevy Court!  Wednesday we were over the halfway hump.  You can tell because everyone is getting very tired...and grouchy :)  For the most part everyone is still playing friendly.  Wednesday we had a HUGE crowd all day long.  Buddy Valastro "The Cake Boss" came in on private jet and did a cake demonstration along with a book signing and meet and greet.  He was such a nice guy!  He brought some of his family including nephew and cousin that sold merchandise for 8 hours straight.  The stage demonstration wasn't as huge as I thought would have been.  He brought up several groups of people to decorate cupcakes.  Alec Baldwin and Jerry Springer were also on site doing meet and greets.

Cake Boss and Alec Baldwin lines

Buddy started at the back of the house before his show started

Buddy, Little Sophia and I

Bruno Mars was up next.  What a production, on stage and behind the scenes.  The crew was pretty good to work with.  Some were needy and the dressing room girl couldn't figure out what she needed.  She ended up sending the runners to the same place three times...including making returns.  CRAZY 

We had a HUGE crowd.  They definitely set a record crowd with 35,000 people!  It was packed side to side.  Bruno is a teeny tiny guy!  His fans decided to stick around until about midnight.  He and the band in turn decided to tease them.  That was fun trying to keep all the little kiddies contained.  The show was so so and was really short.  However, I guess he doesn't have a ton of material to cover much more than an hour. 

Thursday morning led in to a great day with Steel Magnolia and Big Time Rush.  Given SM was staying at the same hotel as me I just brought them in with me.  The lead singers Josh and Meg were coming in for an early interview with Bridgestreet.  The show is shot from the Chevy Court stage every weekday morning.  They are a great bunch to work with.  Very organized, pleasant and talented.  They had a good crowd even though half of them were just there early to save seats for BTR.  Big Time Rush is a band of Nickoloden tv stars so it was a ton of screaming little girls.  They were very pleasant but again had a hired idiot on staff that made things amusing.  They also decided to tease the crowd.  Except this time we had about 200 little girls waiting around and screaming for them to come out and sign.  Instead they climbed on top of the bus and waved. 

Steel Magnolia