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Alright, im finally getting around to writing my update about the Star Wars convention, sadly I know all of you will not be interested, but some will. I guess ill put this whole thing under a cut for that reason.
First I will be using names of people that most people dont know anything about so...I went with the following people and we took 2 cars, so I drove.
Peter = my cousin
Dawn = my cousins gf
Anthony = Dawn's oldest son
Andrew = Dawn's middle son
Molly = Dawn's oldest daughter
Megan = Dawn's youngest daughter
Alex = Peter and Dawn's only child/youngest son
Thursday
This was the first day of the convention. We left from here at about 8 am, the convention didnt open till 12pm thier time in Indianapolis. We got there at about 3 thier time due to stops in cbus to see Peter's friends. We walked around the convention a bit, went in the dealers room, but there wasnt much to do and there was lines for everything.
We went over to the adjoined mall and Dawn and Peter did shopping with the kids and I went to gameworks to play DDR, duh. They had an extreme and a ddrusa. Honestly, I mostly played ddrusa, the extreme pads werent that great and I wanted to play songs I hadnt played. There was Let Them Move, Boys, Dub-I-Dub, original 20th November steps, Stomp To My Beat, So Many Men, Make A Jam, and others. I at least managed to AA all of them, considering that I dont play on 1x plus the frame rate is lousy that wasnt that bad. I also got an sdg on afronova on that machine, the PA window was really easy. Then we went to the hotel and slept.
Friday
Peter waited outside, and I went with Dawn and the kids to the mall to eat breakfast cause I was really hungry. We ended up getting in before Peter did who was in the line outside through the mall skywalk. We rushed to the store's line they had set up to get the exclusive Darth Vader action figure. By the time we got there the line was capped because the people in the end of the line wouldnt even get in the store they said.
We got autographs this day, and it generally pissed me off that I had to wait for Peter and Dawn to figure out how many tickets that they wanted while I watched thier kids and watched lines get longer. Anyways, I got Ray Park's (Darth Maul) autograph, he was cool and shook everyones hand. Then I got a bunch of hot chicks autographs, mostly from Episode 2. I also got an autograph from Amy Allen, who plays Aayla Secura the blue twilek jedi from Episode 2, apperantly she has a larger role in the next film. I think we ended up going between the dealers room and the autograph hall all day and then went back to the hotel.
Saturday
Peter, Anthony, and I decided to get up at 4 am to get in line to get into the store so that we could get the Darth Vader action figures. You could buy four with a four day pass, it was totally retarded since when I saw them online before the convention I didnt even want one at all. So we are in line by 445 am or something like that. I wouldnt have been able to stand outside in the cold for so long if the guys behind us in line werent so cool. Seriously, we talked to them the whole time and it made it awesome. They let us in the building early at like 7 am to get people out of the rain. The store didnt open till like 945, and we didnt get to buy the Vaders and get out of the store until almost 1030. Over 6 hours in line, it was gay.
We tried to get Billy Dee Williams (Lando) autograph a couple times this day, but we couldnt since he was never signing except for like an hour or something. We looked in the dealers room alot and I got some neat pictures of/with people in costumes. We left about 530 because we were going to one of Peter's friends for dinner. I bought an unhealthy amount of Princess Leia stuff this day. We ate dinner, I fell asleep on some guys kitchen table and we went back to the hotel.
Sunday
We didnt wake up early or anything this day, I think around 10. We packed up and left. Then we stopped at Burger King and just missed breakfast, it was like 1045 or something. Best Burger King ever. In Indiana the food was cheaper and they left the ketchup out so you could get however much you wanted. They do this at most McDonalds but thier ketchup sucks.
At the convention we left when most stuff closed at 4. Spent the last couple hours in the dealers room, it was cool cause some of the dealers were actually auctioning stuff off they didnt want to have to bring back with them.
The first thing we did when we got there though was get Billy Dee Williams autograph. He was very impersonable, and dumb. I asked him to sign my cousin and my pictures "To _NAME_ the smoothest cat in the galaxy" he did it too. But, luckly he did mine 2nd because Peter's is sorta messed up since when he was writing it he wrote g-a-x for galaxy, then he looked up at me and asked me how to spell it. Either way he is still the coolest brother in Star Wars, Sammuel Jackson seriously has nothing on him.
The drive home sucked and took about 8 hours with a stop for dinner and bathroom breaks. But I did see this....
The rest of the pictures I took are here
http://public.fotki.com/ANakedG/april_25th_2005/
And the rest of the autograph scans are here
http://public.fotki.com/ANakedG/celebration_3_autographs/
First I will be using names of people that most people dont know anything about so...I went with the following people and we took 2 cars, so I drove.
Peter = my cousin
Dawn = my cousins gf
Anthony = Dawn's oldest son
Andrew = Dawn's middle son
Molly = Dawn's oldest daughter
Megan = Dawn's youngest daughter
Alex = Peter and Dawn's only child/youngest son
Thursday
This was the first day of the convention. We left from here at about 8 am, the convention didnt open till 12pm thier time in Indianapolis. We got there at about 3 thier time due to stops in cbus to see Peter's friends. We walked around the convention a bit, went in the dealers room, but there wasnt much to do and there was lines for everything.
We went over to the adjoined mall and Dawn and Peter did shopping with the kids and I went to gameworks to play DDR, duh. They had an extreme and a ddrusa. Honestly, I mostly played ddrusa, the extreme pads werent that great and I wanted to play songs I hadnt played. There was Let Them Move, Boys, Dub-I-Dub, original 20th November steps, Stomp To My Beat, So Many Men, Make A Jam, and others. I at least managed to AA all of them, considering that I dont play on 1x plus the frame rate is lousy that wasnt that bad. I also got an sdg on afronova on that machine, the PA window was really easy. Then we went to the hotel and slept.
Friday
Peter waited outside, and I went with Dawn and the kids to the mall to eat breakfast cause I was really hungry. We ended up getting in before Peter did who was in the line outside through the mall skywalk. We rushed to the store's line they had set up to get the exclusive Darth Vader action figure. By the time we got there the line was capped because the people in the end of the line wouldnt even get in the store they said.
We got autographs this day, and it generally pissed me off that I had to wait for Peter and Dawn to figure out how many tickets that they wanted while I watched thier kids and watched lines get longer. Anyways, I got Ray Park's (Darth Maul) autograph, he was cool and shook everyones hand. Then I got a bunch of hot chicks autographs, mostly from Episode 2. I also got an autograph from Amy Allen, who plays Aayla Secura the blue twilek jedi from Episode 2, apperantly she has a larger role in the next film. I think we ended up going between the dealers room and the autograph hall all day and then went back to the hotel.
Saturday
Peter, Anthony, and I decided to get up at 4 am to get in line to get into the store so that we could get the Darth Vader action figures. You could buy four with a four day pass, it was totally retarded since when I saw them online before the convention I didnt even want one at all. So we are in line by 445 am or something like that. I wouldnt have been able to stand outside in the cold for so long if the guys behind us in line werent so cool. Seriously, we talked to them the whole time and it made it awesome. They let us in the building early at like 7 am to get people out of the rain. The store didnt open till like 945, and we didnt get to buy the Vaders and get out of the store until almost 1030. Over 6 hours in line, it was gay.
We tried to get Billy Dee Williams (Lando) autograph a couple times this day, but we couldnt since he was never signing except for like an hour or something. We looked in the dealers room alot and I got some neat pictures of/with people in costumes. We left about 530 because we were going to one of Peter's friends for dinner. I bought an unhealthy amount of Princess Leia stuff this day. We ate dinner, I fell asleep on some guys kitchen table and we went back to the hotel.
Sunday
We didnt wake up early or anything this day, I think around 10. We packed up and left. Then we stopped at Burger King and just missed breakfast, it was like 1045 or something. Best Burger King ever. In Indiana the food was cheaper and they left the ketchup out so you could get however much you wanted. They do this at most McDonalds but thier ketchup sucks.
At the convention we left when most stuff closed at 4. Spent the last couple hours in the dealers room, it was cool cause some of the dealers were actually auctioning stuff off they didnt want to have to bring back with them.
The first thing we did when we got there though was get Billy Dee Williams autograph. He was very impersonable, and dumb. I asked him to sign my cousin and my pictures "To _NAME_ the smoothest cat in the galaxy" he did it too. But, luckly he did mine 2nd because Peter's is sorta messed up since when he was writing it he wrote g-a-x for galaxy, then he looked up at me and asked me how to spell it. Either way he is still the coolest brother in Star Wars, Sammuel Jackson seriously has nothing on him.
The drive home sucked and took about 8 hours with a stop for dinner and bathroom breaks. But I did see this....
The rest of the pictures I took are here
http://public.fotki.com/ANakedG/april_25th_2005/
And the rest of the autograph scans are here
http://public.fotki.com/ANakedG/celebration_3_autographs/