Tuesday -

We met up with Alison and Dave for breakfast at the Sear restaurant, we all ended up ordering the same thing :) Then we headed back to our rooms to pack. We had found out that we were on the same Delta flight from Atlanta to LAX, so we met up again just before 12pm, relaxed at the sail bar to make use of the wi-fi, before heading to the ( Read more... )

Monday -

It's always a bit sad, waking up on Monday at D*C, knowing it's the last day of the con. Despite the slower pace of the day, I still don't remember that much. Stuff in the morning, then our photo op with Stan Lee at 11am. A woman in the line recognised me as Leia from the line the day before, and said my pic looked great. We had looked and ( Read more... )

Sunday -

I think this was the night where Matt & I both woke up at 4am and stayed up checking stuff online before falling asleep again at 5.30am or so. Got up a little while later to visit the Harry Potter photoshoot at 9am. I threw on Bella for fun, as I didn't have a planned time to wear it. Got changed into regular wear, and since we had a bit of ( Read more... )

Saturday -

I finished handsewing my Captain America USO hat at about 5.30am, and since we were getting up at 6am each day, I just stayed awake. Didn't have breakfast, I was feeling too nervous - ironed my costume one last time, and put it all on for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised, it didn't look awful! I was so worried it would really ( Read more... )

Friday -

Woke up at 6am, which we did the whole weekend. Breakfast, then I got changed into my Gentle Giant Leia. I haven't worn it in over 2 years, I wasn't sure how long it would take us to get my hair buns on. Thankfully it didn't take too long - we met up with Alison & Dave to head to the Her Universe booth as soon as it opened. We got there ( Read more... )

So we're back in New Zealand. I've got con crud, so while I curl up under blankets and wait to feel better, I'll try to remember all the awesome stuff that happened at Dragon*Con 2011. This year was so much better than 2009, we met so many amazing people, it really was the best convention I've ever been to. It's really hard knowing we probably won' ( Read more... )

Monday -

The last day of DragonCon. We got up for our room service breakfast, just taking things at a relaxed pace. We wanted to enjoy as much of the last day as we could, despite the growing feeling that time was running out. We made our way downstairs to take photos, wander around. We gradually made our way to the SW swap meet panel at the Hilton ( Read more... )

Sunday -

I finally went to bed at 6am on Sunday morning - not exactly sure when we got up, probably around 8.30am I think. Room service breakfast, as always. Then back into my Snowbunny costume for the Rebel Legion costume. The Rebel Legion is and will always be the group I have the strongest attachment to, and have always attended the group photo ( Read more... )

 Saturday -

So, my last Twitter was 3.10am, I must have gone to bed pretty soon afterwards. Just over 4 hours sleep - Matt set our alarm to 7.30am. I got up and had a shower while Matt got in a quick gym session. Our room service breakfast arrived after he got back - same as before I think (love pancakes...). We got in our Spartan costumes again ( ( Read more... )

Friday -

Woke up rather disoriented. In my clothes, diagonal across the bed, in a different room than home. Yeah, the jet lag was still in effect. Took me a litte while to figure it out. Room service breakfast again, then dressed in nice clothes - our first scheduled event was our photo with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. But first, off to get ( Read more... )