what a fun nite... donald jackson was amazing. so fast... for 66 years of age... a lot of young skaters. a jr. dance team who were very very good and ken rose who has personality plus...
steven cousins who not only looks great but skates great as well.
brian orser has so much musicality... great to see... and lesley hawker did 2 very excellent nos.
elvis only did one no. to close the show. the green day one and he was right on the money.... wonderful evening.

Yes the 50th was really somthing to watch and Elvis was spot on as always.
My daughter was so over joyed to see her Idol at work.
I drove her 5 hours to see the show and have a chance to meet him at the VIP reception.
I had one broken hearted little girl ( and there were MANY others aswell ) when come quarter past midnight, we found that Elvis had to leave after the show, as did Brian .
She had waited so long for that night, and was so crushed to find he did not attened the party. She has saved the roses she brought and the stuffed puppy she called Elvis , that she wanted to give him.

I can understand that Elvis and Brian have a family and other priorities, but it took a few days for her to understand that aswell.

I truly adorded the show. it both heart felt and overwhelming. To see so many skaters from so many diffrent times, was wonderfull to watch.

congrats to SkateCanada for a job well done.

That's wonderful that you and your daughter enjoyed the show. I'm sure it was excellent. However, it would have been nice if fans had been notified ahead of time that Brian and Elvis were not going to be at the meet and greet. (especially for fans like you that drove 5 hours)

They wouldn't announce it.Especially about the meet and greet.Even when someone can't be in the show they don't.When I went to Coi and saw the afternoon show Elvis was there.But the evening show he was out.A poster was upset that they weren't informed.Elvis had broken a blade on his skate.

i wish they had told them before.... at the end when the kids finnaly found it.. it was past midnight. so not were the emotions running high..because they were waiting for them to arrive. but the tiredness was also a big element too.

truthfully. she likes him still. but not as hero happy as she was. She looked up to him ( she skates aswell ) and wanted to be like him. but now.. she just enjoys his skating. She likes the Martial arts element he adds.

i just wish that she didnt have to lose her hero like that

I feel so sad reading you write that your daughter "lost her hero" because of one night that he wasn't where she wanted him to be. If he had told her he would be there and he wasn't that's one thing but this was something that you have no idea why he wasn't there.

Take this from someone who has been disappointed when Elvis wasn't at a show he was scheduled to be in a few times and hasn't been able to even get near a show he is in almost five years (the closest would have been at least a 14 hour drive), it's not something to get upset with him over, it's just upsetting.

I think we forget when we make people our "heroes" we tend to think of them as not human anymore, that they are perfect and don't make mistakes or that they might ever do something to disappoint us which is an impossible goal for anyone to achieve. Can you imagine if every time you weren't where people wanted you to be they lost their faith in you? (First of all, for me, my mom would have had to disown me by age 14) I am assuming that your daughter is young and hopefully she will eventually see he is human, but still the same man she always looked up to and she will start seeing him as her "hero-human"instead (totally cheesy combination of words but it's late and it gets my point across), because the only heroes that never disappoint anyone and never make mistakes don't exist, except in TV and movies and in my opinion I would rather have my daughter look up to someone like Elvis who I believe is genuine then a made up character everyday.

I hope you don't take this as criticism because it is NOT that at all, I'm just someone who started to look up to Elvis as her hero because he is human, and what made him my hero was something most people might consider a mistake he made, but it will never be a mistake to me because it's what inspired me.



It's 3am, hopefully this make sense, I should never post late at night, I get long winded.

Laurie C.

P.S Shopper either call me or email me, haven't talked to you in ages!!!!!!!!

I can understand her disappointment. I mean it took me 20 years to meet Elvis which is kind of depressing. For this particular show he must have had something he had to do as he certainly is not one to avoid fans. I think it would have been good for the organizers to say who was or wasn't coming to the meet & greet. I would blame them more than Elvis. Unfortunately with such things, it is just the luck of the draw. It's disappointing though, but I hope your daughter will realize this was just one night and perhaps she'll get to see him another time.