First of 3 updates in succession - G2
OK, I know I've not updated and have been chastised for not doing so, didn't realise my life was so interesting *grin* but it's my Birthday today and I don't care what anyone says I love my life. Anyway quite a bit has happened since my last update so I'll try and get through it in some sort of order.
GALACTICA 2 - Aaron Douglas (Chief Gaylen Tyrol), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Paul Campbell (Billy), Nicki Clyne (Cally) and surprise guest Dan Bacon (Gate Tech. from SG-1)
This was at the beginning of August in Daventry and I took my cousin Darren (aka D); the sheer novelty of actually having a member of the family who was interested in coming to a convention is weird enough in itself but I got around it. Arrived at the hotel and quickly introduced D to Ian (JMC033 I think) whom he was sharing a room with for the weekend before dashing off into the back of beyond to pick up Ruthie and Kate from Long Buckby train station. I thought I did rather well considering I didn't actually have a clue where the station was aside from Long Buckby, who says women get lost all the time? I spit in their general direction
Shared a room with Nicki and Ruthie and the hotel was brilliant, the staff loved us until we got pizza from the local Domino's and left the box outside in the courtyard (they didn't know it was us but I overheard one of them bitching about it.....oops!), all I can say in our defence is they should have a waste bin there if then. Friday night at the meet and greet we celebrated my birthday early with cake (cake or death?) and glow sticks, not to mention the ever present Spermies that always end up at Ruthie's house, but I've got my very own Ronon one and he's still sat at the top of the bed *grin*. Much dancing went on that night well into the early hours and D was made a Jedi Chef Apprentice Yay!
Saturday started early as usual, breakfast not as good as the Thistle I thought but the rest of the hotel was better so it balanced. Didn't go to many talks but was Stewarding in the Photoshoot for a few hours which was fun 'cos the usual crowd was there and kept doing the Tesco run with Ruthie. F&C shop for lunch ..... yum! D beat all comers at chess out in the courtyard (one of those giant chess sets) including Aaron but I didn't get any photo's of that one as I was playing Pyramid with Starbuck erm........no sorry it was Jackie and Crashdown erm......no sorry that was Sean but they looked very much like them and it was great. Saturday night was the fancy dress and there were some absolute corkers! several of the JMC's went as Team America (hilarious!!!), another went as Eowyn from LOTR and looked beautiful, there was a Ghostbuster, 2 people had dressed up as Sixth that was Starbuck from the afternoon (Jackie) and Heather whom I met at P1. I do remember someone else went as Starbuck and there was a pirate and of course Crashdown! can't actually remember who won though........I think it might have been Jackie and Heather in those dresses. More partying on Saturday night and D got promoted to JMC *grrrr* I've been on the apprentice program since SG6 and he goes from JCA to JMC in 2 nights! I was not a happy bunny, same with Nicki and here I am always an apprentice never a master *sigh* looks like I'll have to actually make my costume then, have just bought some boots that may do for that. We had a new con dance announced as well, Dan and Kandyse demonstrated it but the only problem is it's the Electric Slide! I've been dancing and teaching that for the last 10 years or so and at 3 times the speed we did it there, Dan kept getting ahead of the music so it was a bit of a mess. I stayed up well into the wee small hours again *grin*
Sunday, same as Saturday but at some point and I can't remember which day it was, the Chef's caught Aaron out during his talk. Most people who've met Aaron know of his dislike for David Caruso (Ginger bloke from CSI, can't act his way out of a paper bag apparently), most of the Chef's dressed up (girlies included) in ginger wigs and smart black suits and walked into Aaron's talk. I wasn't there at the time but I've seen the pictures and the expression on his face is priceless! One truly amazing thing that did come out of G2 was Bert the Cylon, a short piece of animation that apparently took 7 months to create. The cylon walks into a corridoor and stops, a caption comes up saying 'Do cylons dream of electric sheep' then we go into a cylon dream sequence where he's doing the Macarena (no seriously, hand movements, jumps and everything), The Hustle and Saturday Night then we go out of the dream sequence back to Bert the cylon who shakes his head and walks away. We had to get the Tech crew to put it on twice because it was just so hilariously funny and no-one could help but laugh. Sunday night was kinda sad because it was the end but I'd made a couple more new friends and introduced D to the delights of Wolf cons. More dancing, drinking and staying up into the wee hours again.
The following photo's are the Stewards photo and my group shot which I had like 1 minute to do hence the rather bizarre way I'm sitting and I think Dan was copying.
GALACTICA 2 - Aaron Douglas (Chief Gaylen Tyrol), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Paul Campbell (Billy), Nicki Clyne (Cally) and surprise guest Dan Bacon (Gate Tech. from SG-1)
This was at the beginning of August in Daventry and I took my cousin Darren (aka D); the sheer novelty of actually having a member of the family who was interested in coming to a convention is weird enough in itself but I got around it. Arrived at the hotel and quickly introduced D to Ian (JMC033 I think) whom he was sharing a room with for the weekend before dashing off into the back of beyond to pick up Ruthie and Kate from Long Buckby train station. I thought I did rather well considering I didn't actually have a clue where the station was aside from Long Buckby, who says women get lost all the time? I spit in their general direction
Shared a room with Nicki and Ruthie and the hotel was brilliant, the staff loved us until we got pizza from the local Domino's and left the box outside in the courtyard (they didn't know it was us but I overheard one of them bitching about it.....oops!), all I can say in our defence is they should have a waste bin there if then. Friday night at the meet and greet we celebrated my birthday early with cake (cake or death?) and glow sticks, not to mention the ever present Spermies that always end up at Ruthie's house, but I've got my very own Ronon one and he's still sat at the top of the bed *grin*. Much dancing went on that night well into the early hours and D was made a Jedi Chef Apprentice Yay!
Saturday started early as usual, breakfast not as good as the Thistle I thought but the rest of the hotel was better so it balanced. Didn't go to many talks but was Stewarding in the Photoshoot for a few hours which was fun 'cos the usual crowd was there and kept doing the Tesco run with Ruthie. F&C shop for lunch ..... yum! D beat all comers at chess out in the courtyard (one of those giant chess sets) including Aaron but I didn't get any photo's of that one as I was playing Pyramid with Starbuck erm........no sorry it was Jackie and Crashdown erm......no sorry that was Sean but they looked very much like them and it was great. Saturday night was the fancy dress and there were some absolute corkers! several of the JMC's went as Team America (hilarious!!!), another went as Eowyn from LOTR and looked beautiful, there was a Ghostbuster, 2 people had dressed up as Sixth that was Starbuck from the afternoon (Jackie) and Heather whom I met at P1. I do remember someone else went as Starbuck and there was a pirate and of course Crashdown! can't actually remember who won though........I think it might have been Jackie and Heather in those dresses. More partying on Saturday night and D got promoted to JMC *grrrr* I've been on the apprentice program since SG6 and he goes from JCA to JMC in 2 nights! I was not a happy bunny, same with Nicki and here I am always an apprentice never a master *sigh* looks like I'll have to actually make my costume then, have just bought some boots that may do for that. We had a new con dance announced as well, Dan and Kandyse demonstrated it but the only problem is it's the Electric Slide! I've been dancing and teaching that for the last 10 years or so and at 3 times the speed we did it there, Dan kept getting ahead of the music so it was a bit of a mess. I stayed up well into the wee small hours again *grin*
Sunday, same as Saturday but at some point and I can't remember which day it was, the Chef's caught Aaron out during his talk. Most people who've met Aaron know of his dislike for David Caruso (Ginger bloke from CSI, can't act his way out of a paper bag apparently), most of the Chef's dressed up (girlies included) in ginger wigs and smart black suits and walked into Aaron's talk. I wasn't there at the time but I've seen the pictures and the expression on his face is priceless! One truly amazing thing that did come out of G2 was Bert the Cylon, a short piece of animation that apparently took 7 months to create. The cylon walks into a corridoor and stops, a caption comes up saying 'Do cylons dream of electric sheep' then we go into a cylon dream sequence where he's doing the Macarena (no seriously, hand movements, jumps and everything), The Hustle and Saturday Night then we go out of the dream sequence back to Bert the cylon who shakes his head and walks away. We had to get the Tech crew to put it on twice because it was just so hilariously funny and no-one could help but laugh. Sunday night was kinda sad because it was the end but I'd made a couple more new friends and introduced D to the delights of Wolf cons. More dancing, drinking and staying up into the wee hours again.
The following photo's are the Stewards photo and my group shot which I had like 1 minute to do hence the rather bizarre way I'm sitting and I think Dan was copying.
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