Originally Posted by DekuQueen

I met Bear Grylls this past October on the 21st. He came to a church in central florida, the exact city where I live in. Really strange, but it's also strange considering the fact I watch the show very much and enjoy it very much and have now been pronounced by my family and friends as Bear 'obsessed' as a joke. Haha. So of course I could not miss this opportunity!

My boyfriend, Quint, here on the forums, also got me the best gift ever - a Bear Grylls book titled "Born Survivor".... a Dangerous book for men! Haha. This pretty much made the whole deal right here.

So, I drive from my school (4 hours away from where I live in florida) to go see this event where he is going to speak and all. My mom and my friend comes. We get really close seats and I bring my book with me just in case not thinking that I would actually get to havea chance to have it signed...

but I got it signed!

I was a very happy camper and my friend who was with me was dead set on trying to get me his autograph since I'm usually pretty timid when it comes to stuff like getting an autograph and I don't really care about celebs... everyone was really happy for me, haha! I didn't even ask, I just meekly held out my book and he signed it. lol.

My friend still has the photo of him signing my book with me in it, but these are the ones I took. But here are some pitures I took:

We were really close to the stage-