Maricela (Mari)(NoDoubtfulLamb on the forum)has written a great review of her meeting with Gwen

Where should I start?

Ok let me begin by thanking the 3 girls who were with me during this wonderful experience and joined me in the OC Hospital Charity Auction.... Dana, Jen & Christie Thanks so much I couldn't have done this without you guys <3 RUCAS

We all met at my house @ 1:00pm to take off on our road trip, by almost 2:00pm we were on the road to Bakersfield which is approx. 119 miles from Los Angeles. We arrived @ almost 5:00pm after some traffic we encounter on the 405 fwy. We drove directly to the venue "Robocop Arena" lol to scope things out, there was no one waiting around so we decided to get some grub. Our first stop was Jack In The Box we all needed to freshen up and use the ladies room after a long drive. We order some food but we didn't eat much because the nerves where pretty much high at this point and we didn't want the food to come back and hunt us when we met Gwen. After a few bites we got all ready and headed back to the venue.

We arrived at 6:00pm and bought some merch in the stands outside the venue, we didn't want to carry our mrch around so we took it back to the car. On our way to the car I met a My Space friend... Nice meeting you I love your necklace :)

Anyhow we went to the front of the line and heard a lady asking for the auction winners so we flagged her down and told her it was us (with big cheesy smiles on our faces) ha ha she told us to wait for a bit while she called Gwen's tour manager. So we got all ready and started writing some thoughts on a Thank You card we bought for Gwen along with a Gwen drawing (poster size) that I bought and had been wanting to give to her. After about 15 minutes she told us to come in and wait a little more for the tour manager and she handed us our tickets and a package that included our Premium Concert T-Shirts, 4 Autographed "The Sweet Escape" Cd's and our meet and greet passes. We got into the venue and we put on our passes and we stayed to the side waiting for the tour manager.

He finally came and introduced himself to us and was really nice. He explained to us what will be happening and took us on a tour of the whole behind the scenes where the Gwen Crew works really hard to make this shit happen. We were pretty amazed to see how many people it takes for one show. We got to see the control room, dressing rooms, dinner, security office (where Curtis was making sure everything was set and secure), wardrobe personnel and we even got to see little Kingston in the hallways being taken care of by his babysitter... he's adorable and smiled and giggled with us when he saw us hehe. After the backstage tour he took us to show us where we would be seated during the entire show, we got 4 front row seats right in the center. He told us that we had to wait about 10 more minutes because there was some drama going on, so he left us with the venue security on the side while he returned... at this point we were all pretty nervous and planning on what we would say to Gwen and who would take pictures lol. He returned as he said and took us backstage once more he said we would be meeting Gwen on a more private setting not with the other meet in greets that where waiting in another room... we loved that idea! it was more relaxing and personal that way.