QUEENS OF THE ROAD - part 1

[piksa]

So here's the first official part of my report. This part of the report will be mostly text at the beginning with a picspam following in the end. It seems I concentrated more on talking with the guests than taking photos but there are already so many great photos around that I guess it doesn't matter. The pics are clickable for larger.

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[predec2]

Hi, Pia! Thank you for your thoughts. Brings back some good memories - and some bad. Agree with you about both the close up and the dinner. Poorly executed IMO on both ends, especially the dinner. That was an absolutely horrid arrangement. Unbelievably noisy and cramped. Terrible venue. I sat two away from Gale and never heard a word he said

[frayach]

he turned around and raced away, almost running into a pole in the process.

Oh, god. That's my worst nightmare and the main reason I doubt I'll ever attend a con :( My condolences.

[piksa]

I always try to be honest in my reports, both in good and in bad. I know that's not always welcome but I do want to write the reports the way I see things

[blue_eyedstar]

Piiiaaaaa ... You NOT attending the next qaf-con?!? A H U H! 😉

[blue_eyedstar]

Lmao. Guess you pretty much summed it up perfectly. 😜 And yep, the dinner started out to be a disaster, but ended up pretty great in the end! ... Guess i didnt make "the list" at all! *grins*

[piksa]

Don't know if my story can be called a sum up since it's so veeery long *g*

I'm glad the dinner did turn out better for you in the end. It actually ended quite well for many of us :)
If you made the list, it was a short visit :)

[blue_eyedstar]

Guess he didnt mind me swatting him 2 or 3 times afterall, as he did the same to me at the dinner. 😜😜😜

[piksa]

It was probably payback! Or then you were being mean to him and deserved it :)

I just love it how relaxed he sounds to have been at the end of the dinner.

[queerasfray]

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and pictures - there are some really good ones.

I've been wavering back & forth about what to think about the whole con thing. Isn't it always going to disappoint to a certain degree (especially if one doesn't know any of the others fans and thus can't use the con as a reunion)? It's a catch-22, I guess: the people running it need to raise as much $$ as possible so they charge a lot and try to get tons of people to come - the problem with that, it seems to me, is that there are just too many people and very little time with the guys, which makes people grumpy because they shelled out some serious bucks :-/

Plus this: This person solved the issue by getting up and walking to business class to see if it was him. I could see her leaning down and talking with someone, so that pretty much told me that it was him and she confirmed it when she came back. She told me that it was Gale and Scott sitting there but she also said, I think, that Peter wasn't there. I do have to say that I don’t think

[piksa]

I'm glad you enjoyed the report and the pics.

You do have a point that it's probably impossible to arrange a big convention absolutely everyone would be happy with. I do have to give Zarata credit that most of the stuff in the convention was okay. There were just a few things that really bugged me (more on those later) and made me feel like I wasn't quite getting what I had paid for. Of course that's just my experience.

I couldn't believe my eyes when she marched there to talk with them. That is so overstepping limits. I do feel it was okay for me to say hi to them at the museum when I happened across them but that was just a passing hello and I left it at that. I don't know if they were mobbed at the museum since there were quite a few people from the convention there but I really do hope they weren't. At least at the Close Up they all said they had enjoyed the museum so I'd guess they were left quite well in peace.

[frayach]

Maybe someone should put together a post on fangirl etiquette. Seriously!

The museum is a totally different situation. They had to know they'd encounter con-goers and a simple hello is not weird and stalker-ish.

[piksa]

There should definitely be a fangirl etiquette you would have to promise to honor before allowed anywhere. Luckily there didn't seem to be too much of limit crossing. At least I didn't hear about any instances.

[aschicca]

So much more to love in this report! You really have a way with words hon, I really could see everything vividly. Loved all the tidbits about Peter and Scott... those two really seem to be the best of friends :)

I adore the close up pic of Gale you posted... that's the first pic I see of him where I actually am not frustrated by the beard! Lovely smile, too. Randy looks sooooo pretty :)

And I have to admit: your watermark gave me a chuckle *g* Oh how I like being in the know *g*

*loves you*

[piksa]

Thanks, hon! I told you that writing it all down for you helped me to organize things in my own mind and remembered many new things I didn't remember to write to you earlier. It's a good thing there were some new things for you as well :)

Randy seems to have avoided my camera quite well for most of the time since I didn't have as many pics of him as the others. Or maybe it was that I was talking with him so often that didn't have chances to take pics. But yes, looking pretty.

I actually would have liked the watermark to be a bit bigger but the program I used wouldn't allow the size to be changed. Now you can't really see it unless you click the pics bigger.

*squishes*

[fatiss]

Thanks so much for the pics and for the details

:)))))))))))))))))))))

[piksa]

Thank you! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed. There is more to come as soon as I get things written down :)