SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Wisc. — Sara Immel is still starstruck after meeting actor Patrick Dempsey over the weekend at the restaurant she manages — in Plymouth. "Honestly it was like the best day of my life," she gushed.
"He was beautiful and his eyes were beautiful." Dempsey made his way to Sheboygan County to compete in the races. He's friends with the owner of Sweet Basil and gave the team a heads-up before stopping by.
"I got an hour of fangirling out of me before he came," Immel laughed. She's loved Dempsey since she was 16, an avid watcher of Grey's Anatomy — the show on which he earned his nickname "Dr. McDreamy.
" So when Immel went to wait on his table, she could barely keep her cool. "He smelled so good. I went to the table and greeted them.
He looked up and I was like 'Get it together.'" Katie Sadiq knows Dempsey's name well too, having watched a few seasons of Grey's Anatomy. But her personal favorite was Disney's "Enchanted.
" Sadiq's family owns in Elkhart Lake — another pit stop during Dempsey's Sheboygan County stay. It was his second time dining there, but Sadiq's first time meeting him. "He acted in person just as he does on T.
V. Super poised and very well-spoken, very polite," she explained. "We were all just a little starstruck, but everyone was really excited just for him to be in our area.
" Elkhart Lake is a village of less than 1,000 people. Both Sadiq and Immel share that everyone is close-knit — it's hard not to be. Road America creates a striking j.