Asylum 3 review ....
Asylum convention 29th - 31th May, Birmingham UK
Hey guys,
As I promised, here is my review of Asylum con that took place in Birmingham, UK. I'm sure you can find some videos and loads of pictures on the internet, so I will focus rather on my own personal experiences with guests and will try to describe whole trip since the moment I left home.
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The first thing that I needed to manage was meeting my dear friend Teri at the airport in Prague. I knew how she looks like, but I had no idea from which part of the airport our flight departs and I had no idea where I should find her. I arrvied at the airport on Thursday's afternoon about 2pm and looked for Teri. Fortunately, she's really tall, so I could see her over the whole hall.:p We hugged and told our parents to leave, that we're fine. Then we were walking around the airport and were all relaxing and having fun, joking about convention and stuff. We settled in the hall and were watching departing planes and making fun of people who were walking around. Teri made ma laugh like a million times and it was even embarassing as she was laughing out loud when some woman was walking to us with baby (the doll that looked like a baby - I mean I hope that was only the doll) in her shopping bag.
Then we could laugh our asses off, when there were running people around us. We were all smiling and like 'Look at those jerks, they're running to catch their plane'. About 3.20pm we decided to get on our plane,too. We were slowly walking through the hall, when the woman's voice informed us that Ms. Hošková - which is me,btw- has to immediately get (her ass) on the plane, if she wanna fly over to Birmingham. At that moment, I looked at Teri with fear in my eyes and started running over the hall as did 'jerks' before. We went through the control of luggages and ran to the gate G16. We didn't see any plane, just the bus full of people. We got it. With the time, I got really nervous, because our flight was supposed to depart the airport at that time, but nothing was happening. We were surrounded by english speaking guys, some of them in very good mood. - I believe those were Irish musicians smiley - I was like 'OMG Teri what if our plane is already gone, shouldn't we leave this bus and run around the airport to find out, what's up?" She was like '........' -dully staring at me. Fortunately as you all know we've managed it and appeared on the Birmingam airport, so only we were lucky that our flight was late.
The journey itself was pretty boring. We didn't want to pay for the food and drinks on the plane, because let's face it - you will rather starve and save some money for SPN stuff at the con or you will get some poor food or on the plane?!! Yeah! I know, so we didn't get anything to distract us and we just talked and took some pictures of the land bellow us.
Finally we arrived to the Birmingham airport. We walked out of 'arrival' hall and then SAW IT!! I didn't really expect anything like that at all. :D There they were. Smiley&Sammy&Elis with HUGE transparent saying Smiley's&Co's trip to Birmingham 28th-31th May blah blah.... I wish I would see our faces, because me and Teri slowed down, staring at them and then after the shock, we had little smiles on our faces. It was the moment, they probably realized it's US, the ones they were waiting for. Afterwards we picked up Cal and E. who came from Austria (see, I remember it now ;p).
Thursday was the day when we all tried to settle down at the hotel, we talked a little about our journeys to UK, Smiley showed us sweets, she brought with her. Oh my - there were two big cakes and a loads of little cookies. Two big cakes were -of course - covered by SPN. The one had the print with Jensen, Jared and Misha on it and the second one had the devil trap and both Winchesters - in 3D, I should add!! Smiley covered this one perfectly as she had the cookie with names of all of us, including cookies with names Dean, Jensen, Sam, Jared, Misha, Castiel etc. Thanks a lot hon :-*. After that we decided to get some dinner as we (rightly) supposed that it might be the last meal for next few days. Kiki with her freakin awesome! car took us to some restaurant. I had no idea what I was eating, but it was actually tasty!! After the dinner, we were waiting for an hour or longer for the taxi, because our bunch was too big (9ppl) to get into Kiki's car. Poor smiley was inside at the restaurant for five times at least, calling the taxi over and over. After about an hour, she got really mad called him if he's not there until 5 minutes, then he doesn't have to bother at all. So YAY, after an hour our taxi arrived and half of us was on our way to the hotel and the second bunch decided to do some shopping. We were sitting in the hotel room until 1am at very least, poor Sammy really tired and devastated, speaking with closed eyes and girls were out somewhere doing their shopping. I actually hate shopping, since my mom tends to stay inside of those Tescos for three hours. And apprently girls enjoyed their stay at the shop as well./sigh :p
On the Friday, we woke up about 9am, I think. We all were pretty nervous, because we KNEW that we're gonna MEET J2 at the evening during J2 squeeze double pictures. We sorted out our gift for them - 66 reasons why we love Supernatual - signed it and put into the envelopes. I don't know what else we did on Friday until 12pm, but then we left to the Hilton as we wanted to be there on time. I don't really know why we bothered, because when we came there crowds of screaming fangirls were already there. LOL.. Ok, just kidding. It was quite busy there, but no one was screaming. About 1pm people started queue and as me, Sammy and Teri were pretty nervous we were about to join them. Other girls stayed on their seats, having a faith that there's still a lot of time. Ironically enough we gave it up as well and when we decided to come back to queue the line was already out of the Hilton *how crazy is that O_o* So we ended up relaxing and chatting on the cauch in the Hilton, eating one cake and not bothering about queueing at all. Only thing I was scared about was missing out Jensen's photoshoot, because we didn't manage to get tickets online, so we were hoping to be lucky enough to get tickets at con itself. While we were chatting, Sammy sneaked out and SOMEHOW managet to get through registration without queueing at all. Then she ran to get pics and afterwards we also told her to buy pics(tickets) for all of us. As time went on and on, poor Sammy found out she was standing in the line for nothing that those tickets are gonna be on sale on Saturday's morning. In the meantime we were goofy and playing and messing around the Hilton with EMF that E. made himself out of old walkman!! That was AWESOME!! Even working! At that time Calena was also the chosen one to help out organizate things. lol She was standing there and sending people at different places. When we came to her she was like "Awww, girls. .Guess who I've met here? He just walked around?" All shining... We obviously didn't know, so she just told us that MISHA walked around her. :-)) That was the moment, I think, that we started to realize that this is actually happening, that boys are at the same building and that we're gonna spend with them awesome weekend. While we were chatting with Cal, photoshoots with J2 already started, so me&Eli&Teri were walking around to check boys out. We stopped at the door and THEN IT CAME!... We saw them sitting there, smiling and being soooo pretty!!! Eli broke the silence screaming out loud "They shaved!!" That was so funny. Woman who stood in the line, still waiting for registration turned to us, looked at Eli and started laughing and repeated what Eli said "they shaved" to her friends. I think all ppl were looking at us at that moment, it was really funny, staff girl told them to go away, so we left. Eli started crying afterwards, because ... Who knows why. Probably because neither of us could stop laughing and she might felt little embarassed! :-)) The last thing I've manged during afternoon was meeting Janine. She's so lovely person and I gave her a cookie from smiley with her name on it. I hope you liked it hon. I don't even know how those taste like.
At the evening, we finally went to registrate and then straightly for J2 squeeze picture. Standing in the line, seeing that only few people were ahead of us and we were about to meet boys face to face, I was all shakin and nervous. When we finally got into the room, boys were goofing around, so we HAD TO/WERE FORCED TO wait and watch them for awhile!! Really terrible, have to say. lol Even Richard appeared and they were like go away, you shouldn't be here and I don't know what else. ^^ Then they sat down and we could go on!! I was like a total wuss, have to say. I was only able to tell them "Hi" and that was it. At least I put my hand on Jensen's shoulder, so picture itself isn't that weird. They were both looking really great. I've read that some people were complaining about Jensen, not looking that hot, but the truth is JENSEN WAS INCREDIBLY PRETTY!!! The man has such a charisma! I love him for wearing shirts and ripped jeans during the weekend. I'm kind of convinced, he could wear sackcloth and still would look amazing, because I think he's the type of the guy who is really charming and just with his look makes you drool, but still it was cool he dressed like that ^^^. I loved that both boys - actually three of them including MIsha <3 - had stubble! They all looked sooo pretty. *ok fangirlish moment is over for now*. After double shoot with them, we were supposed to go for Friday autograph session. The problem was that we were supposed to have an email which of course didn't cross my mind at all as I thought organizators would know which numbers were allowed to go there. Anyways we had to run and with help of some awesome lady working at the reception of the Hilton, we've managed to print it out from my mail. There was also little incident with Jensen's bodyguards, but I don't wanna go into details again, just have to say, it wasn't nice at all!! Going for autos itself wasn't that cool as I thought it would be. We came there, I said "Hi" to Jensen and gave him the present from us. He took the envelope, gave it a really weird -also kind of cute- curious look and said "THank you". With Jared it was pretty similar. I said "Hi", he replied, then I told him, I'm happy he came and he smiled and said "thank you". Nothing really exciting. I think it's pretty much everything from Friday, because we all were so sucked and had no energy for the Friday's party, so we left the Hilton to our hotel.
On Saturday we wanted to be there on time, so we would be able to get photoshoot tickets with Jensen and some of us even with Misha (I've already had mine). We woke up about 5am and were on our way to the Hilton at 6am, I think. We were goofing around in taxi, pretty pleased with ourselves that we managed to wake up so soon and that we're gonna get our pictures. lol How wrong we were. When we got inside of the Hilton, we saw people standing in two long lines. One was for pictures and another one was for stage talks. Hahaha. We had to look pretty silly, standing there, not believing what we saw. At that time Eli was wawing already standing in the line for pictures. Unfortunately she was quite in the back of the line. It was 6AM!! O_O I've heard some people were queueing since 3AM!! Now that's insane!! Anyways we splited up, I stayed with Eli&Teri, waiting for pictures and Calena&Sammy were in the line for the stage talks. This all lasted about two hours. I left Eli&Teri and went to stand there wth Calena and Sammy, so we wouldn't have to save so many seats. That was all so crazy. We fortunately got in quite early and were somewhere in the middle with quite good view. The first thing on the schedule was Jensen and Jared's stage talks. To be honest, I don't remember a damn thing or question from it. I was too excited only watching them, I suppose. During the noon, there were stage talks of Richard, Frederic, Gabe&Malik. All of those were soo awesome. Richard said he would love to play in a Bond movie and when he was leaving the stage, he was turning back and making 'moves' so typical for agent 007. <3 He also took a video of us - fans- screaming and waving. I think he said he needs it as a proof for his friends, so they would see how much fun those cons are and they would see how popular he is(not sure about this one,tho). Frederic was so cool, all the time. I haven't seen whole his stage talks,tho but still what I've seen was awesome. Again, I SUCK&I'm sorry, but I don't remember the damn thing. I just know that he said a great line that He didn't kill John Winchester - "It was Eric Kripke". That was so funny. Gabe and Malik were so cool. They were even dancing on the stage, they were messing up with Kripke's name,lol. It was like all the time "I can't say that name, it's cursed" (actually Misha said that,too they're so scared of their boss,lol. which is BTW understandable, he could kill them off anytime) or they were like "Krip, Krip, Krip... Krip.. Krip.. Kripke".. THe way they said it was really hilarious. I also remember someone asking them something like What they think/or what's their excuse for that/ about both being killed off by little girls. They were so goofy about it. They went all like since then they're scared off little girls, now they know that those cute girlies are very dangerous and so on. lol I loved them. Then it came!!! Right before the launch we went for the first part of our AUTOS!! I was so excited about finally meeting Misha! Since the first moment, I was really excited about him. I wasn't nervous like with J2, but I was really relaxed and just couldn't wait to meet him. Kudos to MISHA, because he really made my day/weekend/month/year LOL!! The first I came to Samantha! She looked really pretty and smiled nicely. I said 'Hi' to her, she smiled and asked where I'm from. I so didn't expect her to ask. I said from Czech Republic, she seemed to think about it for awhile, then she smiled and said Nice to meet you. I've never met anyone from Czech Republic. :-) The next one was Amy. She looked really awesome as well. She seemed really nice to me. She took my book for autos, carefully looked at it, made a comment like "Oh, all those books are so cool. I love it". Then she signed it and with smile gave it back to me. Thanks girls. It was pleasure to meet you,too. AWWWW!! And HERE IT COMES!!! I slowly headed to Misha's table. Some people were still at his desk, so I was just standing there and staring at him. Gosh he looked gorgeous!! So perfect!! Amazing hair, beautiful blue eyes and that smile of his!! <3 Suddenly he threw some sweets to Jared who was sitting on the opposite site of the room. They both were laughing, Jared asked for more, lol. Then I came there and He gave me the most beautiful look I ever seen. He looked straightly to my eyes and smiled. He said Hi (still looking straightly at me) and I was like "oh hey". He asked how I am? and then signed the book. I told him I'm okey, just tired and hungry *Gosh, why I was saying that*. He gave me smile again and then he asked "where are you from?" I told him I'm from Czech Republic and to my surprise he was all like "Ooh, are you from Prague?" His look, OMG. He really looked like he's interested in and I loved that. I told him that No, that actually I don't live there, but that I live quite close to Prague. He smiled again, said Nice to meet you, I told him something like Nice to meet you,too and walked away, breathing hardly. I know guys. It's so pathetic from me to squee over this, but COME ON!! He couldn't give me those looks and smiles and think I'm gonna get over it without becoming his minion,lol. The last one was Matthew. Have to say -once again lol- he looked also really handsome. I liked him much more than on the show itself. He has also stubble (which always makes me drool lol) and was also really nice to everyone. I came there and he smiled said Hi and asked how I am. I told him that i'm hungry and he said something that I should get some food then. Anyways I left room and during whole break for launch I think I was repeating Misha's name couple of times, lol. I was like "Misha.... *quiet*.... Misha.....*quiet*... Misha* LOL!! Crazy, but I was so blew away by that 2 mins (or about) that I actually talked to him. It was where Misha's got me and how I became his fan/minion. :-))) At the afternoon, we were quite busy. We wanted to go to Misha and Jared's stage talks and also had to take a pictures with Misha and Jared. We were watching Misha's stage talk which was BTW hilarious!!! The best one ever!! I don't remember all the stuff, and you guys surely have seen some videos. My friend has some audio tapes so I'm gonna post transcriptions of stage talks,too, but now I don't remember much. I remember Misha joking about Christians. He was like 'they're crazy', then looked at publicum and went like 'no, just kidding' then turned back to us "that's true!!" LOL... Too good. Or when people were supposed to go for Jared's pictures (which was showed on the big screen like no. 1-300 go queue for Jare'd photoshoot), they got up and were about to leave the room. Misha was like ""was it something I said" When he was told it was because of numbers 1-300 had to queue for Jared he said "I gotta go too, I'm number 250" rofl!! He was so much fun to be around. My heart was bleeding when I had to go for my Jared picture!! We missed the end of his talk. My pic with Jared is nothing too special. It was rather lame. There was that thing 'No touching' that boys asked for, so it looked boring. The more I was surprised when we came to the room to take our pic with MISHA! He was standing - not like boys sitting - and was actually giving hugs and smiling as all the time I saw him. When was my time to go I came said Hi and asked if he doesn't mind if I gave him a hug or something like that. He was great, and have me such a beautiful hug. <3 Anyways, another + points for him :-))) After that it was time for Jared's stage talk. He was so AWESOME!! He seems really enjoy the time on the stage and is all the time goofy. I again don't remember the exact stuff. I know that he got a question Who killed more demons Sam or Dean. He said it was Sam, because Dean was in the Hell, I think. He said he thinks that Jensen would also said Sam. The same question got also Jensen. He firstly said he thinks Dean, because Sam left to the college. After awhile he added that Sam is too busy sucking on demons, instead of killin them. :D That's my boy!! Yay Jensen, I agree :-))). Dean rocks. About other stuff Jared said. Again I'm gonna send transcripts of some questions that my friend has tapes of. I suck in memorizing stuff. On Saturday we also stayed there for the party and concerts. Frederic even came to the concert and was sitting like two metres on the carpet from us. Jason Manns was awesome and so was Coby Brown. The party was a lot of fun. Me and my friends were enjoying purple nurples and later at night all of us were dancing!! I really had a great time. They suck that they didn't play Eye of the tiger,tho. That night we could also go and get autos from Genevieve and Daneel. I didn't go for them. My excuse is that I was incredibly tired and actually didn't know who's there for awhile. Then there was so long line that I wasn't really willing to go there. But I trully hope everyone was nice to girls! They seem nice. When they left the party could start. I think we were enjoying it until 1am or so.
On Sunday there were main two event for me. Ok three. J2 talks, MISHA's talk and JENSEN's picture. Oh and autographs with other guests.
J2 were on the stage with Jasson. They were really amazing. Both of them were so relaxed and goofy. I wish I would sit closer to stage for their stage talks. I only was in 5th row, which isn't that bad, but it isn't the same like in the first row. I hopefully get a lot of transcriptions of their talks and will share them with u guys!! After this at the afternoon we went for Jensen's picture. We came there, he was sooo beautiful and seemed more relaxed then on previous days. I came to him and wanted something original. In the row I got the idea that Dean approves pose would be nice. I came to him, said Hi and asked him if he could make a Dean approves pose. He smiled and was like Oh okey. If I knew how awesome look he made, I would jump on him adn hug him right there, LOL. The more I look at the pic the more I love him in it and am happy he really made "true Dean look". Then was time for autographs(Oh talking about autographs, I forgot to mention that we went to Misha twice for autos. On Sunday's morning too. We talked to one staff girl she told us to get out, that we can't go through, but we already had tickests, sooo. Paul was amazing!! He really helped us out. He was like 'Sorry guys, there are no exception. But if you go there when no one is there, you can go for it. In other case we will give you money back. I was there before couple of minutes and no one was there.. " so thank you Paul!! We were patient and at one moment there really was only couple of ppl. I went there with my pic with Misha and with poster of him to get signed. When I came there he was again so sweet and adorable, smiling. He asked how I was I said I was okey, then asked him how is he, he said he's fine. Then he took my picture, gave it a look and said 'I really like this picture' Awwwwwww!! :-)))) anyways I told him he's my no. 1 guest, he smiled over it and thanked, then again said it's nice to meet you. I left then). Ok back to autographs. It was time for the second baunch of them. Richard was the first one. He was joking around, he even gave me a personalisation, althought he was supposed to don't give any. The second one was Frederic. I really loved the way he treated fans. I came there he shoke my hand and said 'Hi I'm Frederic" I said 'Hi, I'm Helen" and he said Nice to meet you and smiled really nicely. Then I left to Malik. Oooh man, I love him. I came to him, he smiled and asked how I am. I told him I'm ok, but tired (I know, but I really was, sooo). He smiled took my hand and was shaking it for about 20 seconds and during it told me that he's giving me an energy!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!! I so loved him for doing that. The last one was Gabe. He was way too cool as well. He was so sweet and smiling, asking again how I am. He also asked what's my name. I told him Helen, he asked with E and L? lol and gave me personalisation,too. Thank you guys!! This bunch of boys was so cool really. I've learnt on this con that every guest deserves a lot of attention, because they're ALL way cool!!
The last and the most awesome thing that kind of closed the con for us was Misha's stage talk. He was incredibly funny, using sarcasm, so pretty again, goofy etc. I loved Jared for jumping on the stage during Misha's talk as I could fully enjoy them both. I mean I was sitting in THE FIRST ROW during Misha's stage talk. *hugs to smiley for letting me go there* I was smiling from ear to ear, enjoying every single second of Misha's stage talk. Especially when I was so close to him. I was really sorry to find out Jensen's stage talk is not gonna happen, but poor both of them -Jensen at autographs and Misha on the stage - could work their asses off. Jensens was apparently stucked at autograph room, trying to give autos to all the people and Misha was doing very overtime on the stage. *HUGS TO BOTH OF YOU BOYS* I know accordance to Misha that they were tired. I mean MIsha looked tired when it got longer. He was on the stage I think about two hours, so I imagine that poor Jensen was in the similar situation with autos. Anyways that was that. Misha was still doing pretty awesome, turning everything into jokes. claiming he loves slash fans, he ate pony and so. <3
Overall I was so tired after this all. I ended up sitting on the couch in the Hilton, half closed eyes, drinking coke. Only thing that made me wake up was Teri with her serial-killer waiter ;P. It was funny. After this nothing happened. We all were too tired to do anything. I couldn't believe it's all over. Now I'm only looking forward to next year! I hope I can go! I don't say everything was perfect, but next year there are not gonna be so manny people, so I think we should be all much more relaxed and so.
I hope guests were all ok with fans, none of them left the con disappointed. I LOVE YOU ALL FOR COMING!! KUDOS TO YOU ALL COMING TO EUROPE, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE THE SAME LOYAL AND SUPPORTIVE AS FANS IN USA!!! DOUBLE KUDOS TO JENSEN FOR COMING FOR THE SECOND TIME!! :-)) I HOPE YOU COULD MAKE A HATTRICK!!
You all were awesome, I loved to meet you in person and I hope you can come back. Every little word or smile can make us happy, we're all thankful that you decided to made our month/year much better and rich in awesome experiences and memories.
Hope to see you all next year
Helps
xxx
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