I am a HUGE fan of Gerard Butler like every other women in the world and have always dreamed of meeting him one day.  I followed a twitter feed about movies being made in Michigan and Gerard Butler was filming a movie called Machine Gun Preacher. I highly recommend it, great movie. It was being shot in parts of Detroit and I had the day off, what the heck it was only a couple hours away I could jump in the car and go. I asked my husband to take me to Detroit in search of my hunky actor.  July 26th, 2010 we headed to Detroit with only a possible sight location from a tweet that I received  The filming wasn't in the best parts of town and we were a bit hesitant of getting out of the car to ask for directions. What am I suppose to ask? Excuse me, have you seen Gerard Butler? We drove around for a couple hours and were on the verge of giving up when we drove by what seemed to be an old abandoned trailer park. Out of the corner of  my eye I saw big lights, tents and a lot of people. I screamed stop stop stop, I found him. I was bouncing in my seat like a little kid and I just wanted to jump out of the car and make run for it. Forget parking I was ready to jump and roll. I could hardly contain myself as we looked for a parking spot. Surprisingly, not a lot of fans were around and we could see some filming going on in the distance. Security all around to make sure that we didn't get to close.

I could see him but we were quite a ways away from the filming. We waited for a couple hours for him to take a break or at least have lunch soon. We were right, it was lunch time we saw the set people starting to break up. Gerard was starting to walk towards us with other members of the film crew, I could feel my heart race. He started from left to right shaking hands and as he got closer to I felt like I was going to die.I could hear his Scottish accent as he walked and talked. I have been a loved the Scottish accent. I grew up watching Sean Connery and the 007 movies. Love that man! When Gerard was just a few people away from me I heard a crew member say it was time for him to go. My heart sank, no way could he go without shaking my hand or something. I must have looked like someone had just taken away my puppy.

As Gerard was turning away my husband jumped up out of the crowd and said pretty loudly "hey, I just drove two hours for my wife to meet him, can't we at least get a quick picture of the two of them?" Gerard had his back to us and turned around with a smile and said "OK". We came directly over to me and I jump up and put both my arms all the way around the man. I couldn't speak. I had my arms completely wrapped around him. I was in heaven and I did not want to let go I was so excited. All the way home I was smiling and I couldn't believe that I actually met Gerard Butler.

Its turns out at I was the only one out of all the fans that actually got a picture with Gerard. And, the story was picked up by his oversees fan club as the women who drove two hours to see Gerard Butler. WOW!

It was all so exciting that all my friends an family got pretty tired of me talking about it I'm sure. I Cherish this picture and now when I look at it this I wish I could have the chance to meet him again. I want an updated picture with the brand new me. Maybe next time I won't be afraid to speak.