This one's for you Mona!

So here is my little tribute to the late Patrick Swayze. My Aunt Mona, affectionately known to me as my "Mona Mom" (my mom's sister-she had 4 boys and so I was her stand-in daughter!), is somewhat of a celebrity stalker. Not in the creepy "gotta dig through his garbage" sense but in the fun kind of "gotta meet him" kind of way.

Through the years it has cycled through many celebrities which she has actually met. One such meeting was in Vegas in the middle of the night. Her boys are awesome poker players and stayed up all night playing poker. She was already back in the hotel room sleeping. They found out that Ben Affleck (her current interest then) was in the high stakes room playing. She jumped up out of bed and ran (I'm pretty sure literally) to get there and met him as he left to go (or maybe came back from) the bathroom. Mona-if you read this you'll have to straighten out my facts if I messed them up! :)

Anyway, the first celebrity that I remember being "her boyfriend" was Patrick Swayze. And that, like many women in the 80's, lasted a long time! She even met him when she and my other Aunt Nina were extras on a movie they were filming in Chicago.

So here's a very LONG video clip of the final dance scene in Dirty Dancing. I couldn't find a shorter one that would let me embed it on my blog so you don't have to watch all 7 minutes of it. But anyway, this is the best scene in the movie and who wouldn't want to be Jennifer Grey?

Dirty dancing final Patrick Swayze
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I don't have any pictures with Mona and Patrick Swayze (not sure if those even exist). But here is one with her and "Ben Affleck". For her birthday a couple years ago, my other Aunt (Nina?Kathleen?not sure) made this cut out of his head on Dean Martin's (?not sure on this one either) body and lugged it around town with all 6 sisters for her birthday weekend. Hilarious! Anyway, they also took it to his movie premier and got interviewed by the news and I think she met him again and he signed it for her! I love my crazy Mom, Mona Mom and the rest of her crazy sisters! If you ever wonder why I am the way I am, I am blaming it all on those crazy Tice sisters! :) Love you all!

Anyway, Patrick Swayze will be missed by many and I'm sure by my Mona Mom. Love ya Mona!