heidiv said:

I'm training for the Red Ribbon Ride, a 300 mile bicycle ride coming in July that benefits AIDs/HIV organization in the Twin Cities. I gotta ride a lot to get ready, right?

And I'm a Prince fan since about 1980, which is before I was even born (not).

So I decide to go on a training ride today for about 45 miles. Chanhassen and back sounds about right from Minneapolis.

I bike to Chanhassen and Paisley Park, go in the park to take a break in the shade. Text my husband jokingly, "no sign of Prince yet."

A woman enters the parking lot in a SUV and rolls down the window and asks me, "May I help you?"

I say, "I'm just on a ride taking a break for a couple minutes."

She pulls into the parking lot by the door on the south side.

Who opens the door to Paisley Park but none other than his Royal Badness. I can hardly believe what I'm seeing.

He greets the woman with a hug and another woman with a hug and props the door open so they can carry some stuff inside.

I'm on Facebook on my iPhone joking about being at the park while this all happens.

I watch him for a few minutes - turquoise shirt, white caftan type thing, looking so cool and perfect, like he always looks.

The woman points me out to him. I can tell he's contemplating whether to offer me a cool drink of water or kick me off his property.

I frantically type into Facebook, "OMG! He's looking right at me. I think they're gonna kick me out."

The woman walks toward me and waves goodbye, saying, "This is private property."

I say, "ok, thanks!" but on my biking shoes and ride out of there, wishing I had the guts to ride over to Prince and wish him an early happy birthday.

So now I can say Prince really looked right at me, and maybe he'll even find out my name for when he files a restraining order. Not necessary though!!!

Thought some of you might like to read this.

Have a great weekend of Prince in Minneapolis~

Thank you for being so nice to me at the Aloft Hotel!!! It was nice meeting you!!

nah....he said, "probably an org'r."

Polity tell her to leave so she doesn't post anymore on prince.org.

shonenjoe said:

you should have told her Kesha sent you

Nah, he probably would've attacked her with one of his pumps if she said that.

This is really coooooooooooooooooool, can't believe it, must have been a kind of a dream, right??

No picture needed, this was your day, the best caption is kept in your mind, what a souvenir!!

[Edited 6/8/10 14:38pm]

GLuv4U said:

Cool that you say him unexpectedly!The first time I visited Minneapolis I had to go find Paisley Park. As soon as I got to Chanhassen I stopped at a gas station to as where paisley was, the clerkk told me you can't miss it keep going straight out of the city limits its a white building on the left hand side with a purple triangluar roof.Pretty good description I found it.I was able to drive up in the parking lot because the gates where open, maybe 1 or 2 cars there.I jumped out and me and one of my friends took some pictures in front of Paisley.Got back in the car pretty fast.I had heard his house was a mile away from Paisley so that was my next quest.It wasn't hard to find.The big black fence gave it away and the sign on the fence posting Private Property camera surveillance.The house set way back, I was only able to see a purple roof.I drove as far down as the fence went and was like wow.Prince has a windmill on the back on his property also a radio tower.I got bold enough and drove up to the private driveway trying to act like I was lost.A fine Mexican guy walked out and said th,"this is private property and I have to ask you to leave.Then I was like Prince lives hear don't he?I'm not stupid.Then the guy started talking to me and my friends like asking us where we were from and all.We talked to him maybe 10 minutes,then he had a call that went off in the little security booth and then he was alillte more insistent that we had to leave because P would be arriving soon.We left and parked down alittle ways down on the other side of the street but never saw P.The security guard probrably warned the driver that a couple of fans were hanging around.Darn!!Oh to be so close.But then 2 yrs later I got to go to a Celebration 2002 at Paisley saw P plenty walking around with his bodyguards though.

how cool!!

sux that u didnt get to see Prince tho...

very bold of u to talk to that mexican guy after he told u that that was private property...

cool