Monday, February 17, 2014
Adam Sandler Visits Georgia Water Park While Filming New Romantic Comedy, “Blended”
Adam
Sandler was seen at the water park Lanier World with his two daughters while
they were in the area filming his upcoming movie co-starring Drew Barrymore.
by
Rebeka Garcia
We
were near the front of the line for the lazy river ride at Lanier World,
the water park on Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Ga., when it happened. At least
that’s
what I’m
told. Since I’m
not very observant, I had to rely on my friends’
many
retelling to get the details. The family getting ready to be sent down the
slide took longer than usual, and this flustered the lifeguard. She kept
glancing over her shoulder at us. When the two little girls finally went down,
their father turned to make his way back down the stairs. He wore sunglasses
and a baseball cap pulled low over his eyes, and he walked with his face down
to avoid being noticed. It didn’t work. My friend standing in front of
me whipped around, her mouth hung open. She kept nodding frantically toward the
man in the baseball cap.
“Ohmygod
ohmygod ohmygod,” she mouthed over and over, eyes wide.
I
looked again. I didn’t recognize him until the very second
he walked past me and out of sight. There, in the T-shirt, cargo shorts and
flip-flops he so often wears in films, was Adam Sandler.
My
friends swear he said “hey” to
us as he walked by, but I didn’t hear it myself. We watched him walk
away, seeing our own incredulous expressions mirrored in the faces of the few
people down the line who also recognized him. When we finally got to the front
of the line, the lifeguard was still rattled. She assured us that we hadn’t
imagined it, that really had been Adam Sandler. When we reached the bottom of
the slide, the other lifeguards were similarly star-stricken.
We
got our towels and walked out to the parking lot, still babbling about our
celebrity spotting. We climbed into the car, our chlorine-sticky legs clinging
to the leather seats, hair dripping down our backs, and all immediately reached
for our phones. Facebook, Twitter, phone calls to parents. We couldn’t
stop talking about it all day.
Why
was Sandler at Lanier World?
After
a little research we discovered that Sandler and co-star Drew Barrymore were in Gainesville to film “Blended,”
a movie to be released in 2014. While most of the filming for the movie took
place in South Africa, many scenes were shot in northeast Georgia. A lifeguard
told us that Sandler had brought his daughters to the park on his day off.
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