Project Update #6.0 (7/11/00)...Tulips delivered

[Jenny]

OK, this should be the last update about our special project for Michelle! (until perhaps we find out what she thought of our messages, earrings, etc :) ).

For those who haven't been following the other update threads, I used the leftover money from the earrings to purchase a bouquet of mixed tulips for Michelle's birthday. You can view them here:
Flowerbud.com (http://www.flowerbud.com/browse/tulips.asp)

I'll also re-post the message I put with the flowers. They only allowed 75 characters for the gift message (including spaces!) so I just wrote:

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--> July 7, 2000 ~ Dear Michelle, Happy 20th birthday from everyone at MKF!!!<!--EZCODE BOLD END-->

The tulips were scheduled to be delivered today (it was possible Michelle wouldn't be there to get them Friday on her actual birthday, and they don't deliver on Mondays), and the bouquet arrived at the HealthSouth Center in El Segundo as scheduled.

I tracked the delivery this morning on the FedEx site, and it showed that the flowers were delivered at 11:30 AM. This afternoon, I call HealthSouth just to make sure they had gotten to the right place, and also to find out if Michelle was actually there to receive them. I spoke to the same person who I had met when I dropped off the earrings. She said they flowers had arrived, and when I asked if Michelle was there today she said yes... and then she said Michelle had a statue unveiling today so it worked out really well that the flowers came when they did! I thought that was really cool, and I asked her about the statue -- I was very surprised when she said she thought it was a wax statue for the Hollywood Wax musuem!! I'm not sure if I heard that right, so someone in L.A. has to go there and check it out! I went to their website, but I couldn't find any info about her statue. Apparantly there's a Sports Hall of Fame section of the gallery which features Michael Jordan, Fernando Valenzuela, Larry Bird, Mohammed Ali, Magic Johnson, Tiger Woods, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among others.

Anyway, I thought that was very interesting, but most importantly, I'm glad Michelle got our Birthday gift!!!

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Edit:<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--> UPDATE!! <!--EZCODE BOLD END--> I was wrong about the Hollywood Wax museum. See my other post below for the correct info about Michelle's wax statue!

[Rosa]

Thanks for the update Jen. Tulips happen to be my favorite flower. :)

[Rene]

Thanks Jenny. I'll have to go into LA and check it out. I hope she doesn't look creepy. I'm not a big fan of the Wax Museum.

[kwanluv]

Thanks for the update Jen!!!

Wow a wax statue, a bronze statue..what's next...a Golden statue for 2002! ;)

[NicoleM]

Thanks for the update, and all your hard work in helping us to honor Michelle on her birthday! Now I am dying to see the wax statue of MK!

[Mordecai71]

Thats great that Michelle was there today. I am on pins and needles wondering what she thought of everything! Can't wait to hear about the statue either. Did anyone every find a pic of the OTHER statue of her and Frank?

[maryada]

Thanks Jenny--for keeping on top of things, and letting us know that she got the flowers.------Thanks also for sharing the other info about the unveiling and the wax museum. Maybe someone will have more info on both, and will post about it. I would love to see a picture of the statue------Maybe there will be a news article or magazine article that will show a picture.----------I wish we would get word somehow that she got both the messages and the earrings and liked them. After all this,---surely she has to be a LITTLE curious about MKF.----------------Mary Ada

[skatingfan]

You received all 6.0s for your delivery and presentation of this project.

[IzzyS]

Thanks for the update, Jenny. That is so amazing how it all worked out!! I was just talking with a friend of mine about how the Hollywood Wax Museum gives me the creeps. Now I'm going to ask the same friend if he'd like to go with me to the Hollywood Wax Museum. He's going to think I'm nuts, but I really want to see that statue. That is so cool!! I'll see if we can take pictures there. Thanks so much!!

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Michelle could get a star on Hollywood Blvd.? That's a project we can work on, although I'm not sure how it works. Just a thought. She's a TV star, after all!

[Jenny]

You're welcome!!!!!


Now as for the statue.... looks like I only got it half right! There was a wax figure of Michelle unveiled yesterday in El Segundo, but it's not going to be at the Hollywod Wax museum.... it was made by Madame Tussaud's Studios in London and will be displayed in Madame Tussaud's New York (http://www.madame-tussauds.com/site/newyork/f_ny.htm) gallery which opens this fall. Here are two photos on excite:

AP Photo (http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/kwan/in/wax/20000712/la110)
Reuters photo (http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/sports/kwan/20000711/lab03d)

So now all you New Yorkers have to go check it out!! (BTW, this figure is very well travelled! London to Los Angeles to New York!!!)

[GMAN]

Thanks Jen!!!That`s great!!!I think Michelle will LOVE them!:D

[kwanette]

For all of your hard work. how nice that they arrived the day of the unveiling of her statue....I know I am stupid...What earrings did we get her? i sent a check for something...is this it? I think it was to jenny...Right? memory loss!!

[annabelle]

thats for all the work that you put into this project. i also think she will love them.

[smileyllama]

Thanks! I'm sure she'll LOVE them! Let us know if you get any feedback from Michelle!

[Jenny]

kwanette -- check my other recent thread for info about the earrings:

Project Update #5 (7/7/00)...& Michelle's Birthday (http://pub1.ezboard.com/fmichellekwanforumletscongratulatemichelle.showMes sage?topicID=45.topic)

I will definitely let you all know if I hear anything back from Michelle!