Best CarmelFest Ever.

God Bless America.
4th of July in the MacNulty household means one thing and one thing only....FOOD. Seriously, this weekend gets its own grocery trip. So, my mother and I planned meals accordingly, and the weekend was chock full of ribs, burgers, delicious salads, cake balls, cheesecakes, fruit pizza, brownies, and that only scratches the surface. Needless to say, I was in a fab mood.

So it's Sunday, July 3rd. And in my town, there's this festival on the 3rd and 4th of July called Carmelfest (the creativity is shocking, I know). Now this Carmelfest is home to carnival games, little tents full of rando things you can buy (I got a feather in my hair for $5...fancy that?!), 2 main stages with cool local bands, and square foot upon square foot of fair-style food. I'm talking lemon shake-ups, elephant ears, corn dogs, funnel cakes...you name it, we got it. So, Sunday my friends and I decide to hit up the fest for a bit. We waited until the sun started to go down because we had ungodly hot weather all weekend. We were all sitting on a curb enjoying our elephant ear the size of a small third-world country when my friend Caroline and I heard the voice of an angel come from the main stage behind us. That angel-voice belonged to none other than Jon McLaughlin.
Please, PLEASE tell me you know who Jon McLaughlin is. If not, I'll enlighten you. He recently became very famous because he was in the movie, Enchanted. You know, the cute Disney movie with Amy Adams and hunky hunks Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden? Well, in the ballroom scene Jon is singing on stage. They do a few closeups of him, and boom. He's famous. Now, I knew about Jon wayy before his Enchanted cameo because he went to college like 20 minutes away from here and, until he became supermegafoxyawesomehot and famous, lived in my city.
I have never seen Jon in concert. I have never met Jon. Because I never had a chance to make it to any of his local concerts before he went to L.A. But I was determined to meet him one way or another...I just never expected it to be while I was hot and sweaty at Carmelfest and I wouldn't have to pay a dime. So my friend Caroline and I, recognizing his sexy voice immediately, quickly made our way to a grassy spot by the stage and popped a squat in front of some old people who seemed to not really understand who this man on stage was. We were literally 10 feet from him. It was magical. We soon found out that he was in town and wanted to come surprise his hometown with a few songs. He played one of my favorites, Beautiful Disaster, and he ended up coming out afterwards to watch the rest of the performances for the night. My friends and I introduced ourselves to him and chatted for a bit, got autographs and pictures, and left. I actually did pretty well...no stupid comments or anything. Just chill conversation. My friends and I went back to Caroline's house to swim for a bit, then I went home.
Just when I thought my Jon adventure was over, I woke up the next morning to see that he had tweeted me, wishing me a happy 4th of July.
God Bless America, indeed.