92. Introduce Liam to Gloria.

So, I wasn't sure at first whether to cross this one off, since I had envisioned a face to face introduction when I created the list, but I won't get that chance again before this 101 list expires, and I think that Skype technically counts just fine. When I start my next 101 list, I'll add "introduce Liam to Gloria in person!" :)

You may know I'm a big fan of Gloria Estefan, have been since high school. I'm part of this amazing group of fans called Conga Online, and Bill, Liam and I recently traveled to Miami for Conga Bash 2011. This was our 6th Conga Bash (my 5th, I missed the last one when Liam was an infant). Gloria had attended every previous bash, and I had really hoped she would continue the tradition so that I could introduce her to Liam. I was just a college student when I first met her, and she was around when Bill and I got engaged (she actually knew about our engagement before our own parents!), and after we were married, so it would really mean a lot to me to introduce Liam to her.

Well, she was not able to attend this year...however, she did join us via Skype during our EEI tour from her family ski vacation out in Colorado. We were in a conference room with her on the projection screen at the front. Bill, Liam and I were at the front of the room, so I put him up on the end of the conference table so that he could see. He was very excited to see Gloria, and had even brought along his favorite Noelle book for her to sign if he got the chance. As soon as she saw him on the table, she was like "Oh hi!" and started talking to him. He Skypes with my mom at home, so he understood what was going on, and was very excited to chat with Gloria for a minute. Susan got this photo of Liam chatting with Gloria:

Later on, as Gloria was still talking, Liam started getting bored and said very loudly "I want to go back to the hotel now!", interrupting Gloria (and embarrassing me!). She was like "what?" so I put him back on the table where she could see him, and she spoke to him again and offered him candy (not cool Gloria, since no one actually had any LOL!).

While I was not able to get myself on screen to tell her whose little boy she was talking to at the time (I was too far off to the side), I did get a chance to pass along the message later on, and received a message back from her, so I think that counts as introducing Liam to Gloria! :)