Short Version: I had so much fun!! I totally want to do that again! (I can see how people can become addicted to going to cons. lol)

Long Version …

Friday

This wasn’t a con day, it was our travel day. We didn’t end up leaving the rez until much later than we’d anticipated which meant we didn’t arrive in Calgary until 3am. CRAZY! I’m surprised I made it. I must have been cruising on pure adrenaline and caffeine courtesy of Tim Hortons. :s

Saturday

Man, the kids were PUMPED! :D

And to be completely honest, so was I! :D :D :D

We got up early (I had a grand total of 5 hours of sleep urgh). My girl wore a cute little made up costume of just black and a cape (with the intention of getting her face painted like Darth Maul, and my boy wore his brand new canvas hightops with Marvel characters on the sides. I just stuck to my Serenity tee (courtesy of former LJer K) and my Where’s Waldo-esque knitted toque since it was pretty darned cold that morning.

Of course once we got there, my girl saw the work presented by the The Tattooed Lady and went with some beautiful red sorceress make up instead. :) And my boy went with Avatar. lol We bought the movie on the way up and it was INSTANT OBSESSION for him. :D

From there on in it was mayhem and geekery! And total technology fail for me AND my sister as we were so exhausted the previous night when we got in, we forgot to charge our phones and I forgot to bring my camera and my daughter forgot to charge her camera batteries! We barely got any pictures! The only pictures I got were these:

YES! That’s me, my daughter and Paul McGillion (left)! :D :D :D

He accused me of being my daughter’s sister. :D And yes, it totally made my day! He’s a GREAT actor and even looked “startled” when I said I was her mother and said my real age. lol Bless the man. ?

And this is a guy dressed as Ten (right)! His costume was pretty good, so I took a picture for my daughter since I saw him when I was standing in line for the ATM and she was with my sister at the time. (OMG there were NOT enough ATMs there. Only 3 for the THOUSANDS of people, AND I hear they were cracked. :( Not good.)

This is a picture of Chris Giarrusso (left) drawing my boy his favourite hero, Spider-man! Eeeeeeeeeeee! SO PRECIOUS!! My boy was so excited! And then he drew my girl Harley Quinn! :D

Hmmm … What else … I got a bunch of autographs …

OH YEAH! I totally met the guys from Kirby Krackle! They’re GREAT! We chatted about their songs and how awesome they are. lol It was cool, and they were totally nice about me being all fangirly. lol Which was cool of them. I tried not to weird them out, and when I started to embarrass my daughter, we left. :P But then I ran back and got an autograph. lol

OH! And then we went and met Alina Pete from Weregeek! She was kickass! She signed my daughter’s comics for her and drew her a little Sarah picture! Yay! THEN it was my daughter’s turn to be all fangirly. :D

OHHHHHH! And we totally met LANDO! Okay, it was Billy Dee Williams, but in my head it was Lando Calrissian. lol Except it was a bit disappointing since we stood in line for like AGES, and when he finally showed up (LATE), he was totally spacing out and the handler people were like spelling shit out for him. I think he was stoned or something. :/ I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was for medical reasons though. :P

My boy and my sister wandered off together at some point because they were all “ooooooooh!” and WE were all “oooooooooooh!” in different directions. After that, I’m not sure what they were up to. :/

We had this whole plan for the panels and ended up missing EVERY SINGLE panel because there were so many awesome things and people there. :D We didn’t even mind.

Well, except for we hadn’t realized that we should have lined up like (probably) HOURS in advance for the Leonard Nimoy panel and ended up getting the mad cuts on that one. :( It was the ONLY one we actually lined up for and we got barred out for too many people. LAME! My daughter cried. Like hard. :(

So to make it up to her, we bought her an anime costume to wear the next day. :)

*thinky face* I’m sure there was more, but I was (and still am) sooooo tired, I can’t remember right now. If I do recall anything, I’ll update.

But then we got back to my sister’s place.  *sigh*  And here’s where the story takes a tragic turn for the worse.  I’ll have to explain in another post which will follow tomorrow.  Suffice to say … it isn’t good news.  :(  Just send happy thoughts to my daughter who lost her beloved kitten on Saturday night.  We spent all of Sunday making her feel better.

Sunday

Not quite so bright and early, we were at the con pretty late the next day. We had decided the day before we were tossing the plans to see the panels out the window in favour of just visiting with booths and shopping and wandering and taking in as much as possible. This time, I remembered my camera, I bought new batteries for my daughter’s camera … but our phones were even even worse shape than the day before. My plans for tweeting the whole thing? Bleh. Ah well.

So, off we went! We split up again (which was a TERRIBLE idea since we didn’t have our phones!) and we off to see what we could see. Again, since my boy was with my sister, I’m still not sure what they all saw. lol

I left my camera at home, so I’ll have to update my post with pictures later. :P

I did most of my shopping on this day as well, so bear with me … I’m totally broke now. lol

Day 2 had me meeting Aaron Douglas though! He is very handsome up close, you guys! Liek whoah! And he’s super nice. :)

And … I went back to harass the Kirby Krackle guys a bit more because I realized that I totally didn’t get my friend  an autograph! I told them that she’d kill me if I didn’t. lol

OH OH OH! And I got a way deadly d20 purse (left)! It’s a little rough around the edges, but the guy lowered his price and I figured I can fix it up to make sure it doesn’t disintegrate on me. :D

OH OH OH! AND I bought a pair of knee high brown leather boots (right) for $35!! SO IN LOVE! I’m wearing them right now with a purple caftan/tunic type shirt. *twirls*

OH AND GET THIS GUYS … WE MET LEONARD NIMOY!! That’s right! My girl and I met SPOCK 1.0! William Bell himself! XD And we didn’t have to pay a dime! lol

We were looking for my sister and my boy when my girl goes, “Hey, Mom, look. The line up is really short. We should just go.” And she was so heartbroken from yesterday, I said, “Okay.”

We went up, and we get the front and the guy says “$60 for autographs.” And I said, “How about if we just want a quick picture?” and I held up my camera. And he says “The picture line-up is over there. And I look over and OMG you guys. It’s like a kilometer long. So I said, “How about if we just want to say hi?” And the guys laughed and said, “I’m not going to stop you.”

SO WE RAN UP AND MET LEONARD NIMOY! :D :D :D :D :D

And he gave us a fist bump and said my daughter was cute! XD

And then we ran away giggling like the mad idiots we are! I have no autograph or photographic evidence to prove it, but we totally met him!

You may now proceed to be jealous.

ETA: I totally forgot!  My daughter got to meet one of her favourite personalities from the SPACE Channel’s show InnerSPACE (left): Teddy!  She was so excited!  He even gave her an autograph!  Yaaaaaaaaay!  He was really nice to her.  lol

And after that? Uhm … OOOOOOOOOOOOOH! I totally met Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics! He was ADORABLE! Apparently he sold out of tshirts the first day so he bought tshirts and underpants and fabric paint at Walmart and made his own to sell on Sunday! I totally bought one that said “THERE / now I’m not naked anymore” He kept trying to talk me out of it saying there would be a much nicer one available on the website soon, but I told him “But YOU made this one. That makes it, like, 500 times way more awesome!” So I took a picture of him holding it up to prove he made it and therefore that much more geekier. lol

Of course, on the way home I realized I should have had him SIGN IT! DUR! Ah well.

Uhm … hmmm … what else?

OH! There were like a MASS of awesome costumes! I loved them all so much! I only got a few pictures. Of course … will have to post them later when I get home to my camera.

Uhm … what else? Hmmm … I think that’s it. For now at least. I should probably do more work. :P Seeing as I totally slept in this morning.

Freakin’ took 7 hours to drive home and I didn’t get in until after midnight, but I would totally do it again in a heartbeat! Spent way too much on autographs, cute pictures, doodles, costumes, facepainting, etc.

ETA: OH YES! There were a LOT of really cute guys there. Doods! LIKE A LOT! Whiplash! lol Yaaaaay!

Hmm … I hear there’s an anime-con in Edmonton later this summer …