Mark Schultz Pensacola, Florida

April 25, 2008 I went to another Mark Schultz concert at an Extraordinary Women event in Pensacola, Florida. It was a very long 8 hour drive and filled with car problems and stressful high speed driving. My windshield is not so crystal clear now thanks to a semi and a rock. The time that Mark sings seems to be going by quicker and quicker. I was once again in the front row center!! Mark smiled/waved at me when I got out there as they were still doing sound checks when the people started rushing in. He’s pretty cool. He did some photos with the ladies in the front row, my new friends. : ) I took a couple pics of them and Mark. The autograph line was fabulous. I like sitting and watching fans interact with Mark, although he seemed very tired. The crowd was not to lively tonight either. Mark did spend a lot of time in the meet and greet line with the people who are his fans that will stick around. I waited to the end as my scrapbook is heavy. Mark once again was very cool and looked very closely at the pics from last Friday’s event even reading one thing out loud that I had written on the page. Then I showed him the Dove award page to which he wrote an entire paragraph. “During the Dove Awards I texted my wife on the phone and she said, “Well the TV adds 20 lbs. to your face…” I said “Honey, it’s 10 lbs.” she said, no believe me big fella, it’s 20 lbs!!!” :-) Me not winning anything (to which he drew lines/arrows to him on each of the pics) He talked about this story as soon upon getting on stage. Mark, U rock! You win the support and encouragement of your fans every day. Mark has been very kind and generous to me and I want to thank him for spending SOOO much time with me. One of the pics is Mark holding a USGS map of the United States and on it the elevation points of his bike trip spot are plotted out. He seemed to think it was cool so I gave him the copy of it that was in my book. Maybe I’ll attach that later, but I don’t have it handy right now. I am so spoiled, the guy taking photos tonight took 8 of Mark and myself. :-)