When Nicholas was about 2 years old he became completely and totally obsessed with one video that we watched over and over and over and over....Bill Dance Bloopers. Bill Dance is a famous fisherman who has his own TV show and somehow Greg ended up with this DVD of his bloopers like 100 years ago. Nicholas wanted to watch it one day so we gave it a whirl and the rest is history. We watched it at least once a day and probably much more than that for longer than I care to remember. Seriously, we drove all the way home from Colorado to Oklahoma that summer and Nicholas watched nothing but that video. We couldn't believe it. The movie itself was silly and nothing short of mind-numbing, but he loved it with every bit of his heart and soul so therefore it has been cemented in our family memories as something very special. I can remember many nights I sang him to sleep with Bill Dance's theme song on perpetual repeat. As with many things involving children, once was never enough. He doesn't ever watch that video anymore and he can't remember the words to the song now, but he definitely remembered his old friend when he got the chance to meet him face to face last weekend at the Bassmaster Classic Expo in Tulsa. I wasn't there but Greg sent me this picture of our boy. And like the complete sap that I am, I got all choked up.
I've been told that seeing him at events is very rare, so this was just perfect timing. He even got an autograph on the bill of his beloved Bass Pro cap as well as one from Jimmy Houston, who's another fishing legend.
(P.S. Nicholas told me he was scared of Jimmy Houston at first because of his hair. I get it.)
Overall, I think they had a great afternoon and they returned with a very happy, very sleepy boy. He had a big bag of cotton candy and about a million booth freebies to play with, so all was good with the world.
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