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Home from Orlando. The weekend had a bit of multiple personality going on - And we stuffed a hell of a lot into three days. Friday afternoon was lunch at the Royal Pacific Universal property. Then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gwendolyngrace, jennclack, and I wandered the property to do a little preliminary space planning for Infinitus. There is a lovely outdoor area where the hotel does Luaus and it can be a great little party spot for the event.
Afterwords, we took the water taxi to CityWalk and wandered around and did a little shopping. I got a lovely sun hat in a pretty blue. Then we took the water taxi to the Portofino - the other hotel property we have a big block of rooms at. The Portofino is a lovely property - nicer, I think than the Royal Pacific. It was definitely Venice inspired, and has a lot of that old world charm, with courtyards, plazas, and terraces throughout the property. Really nice.
Then we took the water taxi back to the Royal Pacific (about twenty minutes - but we had to change taxis at CityWalk), where we leftjennclack and took a taxi to our hotel where we registered for the event that brought us to Orlando.
That evening Gwen went out and I stayed in. It was a long day of travel for me, and I wasn't feeling particularly well. So I watched the debate with one of my roommates and another con attendee. They didn't last through the whole thing, and we talked through a lot of it. But I guess I got a little angry at the TV. Hopefully I didn't freak out the friend-of-roommate too too much. Why I generally don't watch anything political with anyone else in the room. I stress out, and I hate feeling stressed out.
I got to bed around 11. My roommates (we had two adjoining rooms, so there were six of us all together) trickled in between midnight and two am. Saturday, we were up and out early.heidi8 drove Gwen and I back to the Royal Pacific so we could have breakfast with jennclack, keytothecage, and sap_78. Then we went back to the event in time for the first Q and A session.
We snuck out of the last Q and A session of the afternoon because we had VIP passes to the client party at Universal Studios and "RIP Tour" for their Halloween happenings opening weekend. The party was a lot of fun, our sales rep is fantastic, and our tour group was the most fun (two different Universal folks defected from their tour groups to play with us, because we're so damn awesome). We were fast tracked through the events of the evening, so we wandered through three haunted houses, and the Bill and Ted stage show (this year's show? Bill and Ted Meet Hellboy). The Bill and Ted show was a mixed bag of pop culture references. Some of it was funner than other bits of it. The haunted houses were a hell of a lot of fun.keytothecage only lasted through one, but I am so proud of her for doing that one! We knew way ahead of time that haunted houses freak her right out, and she made it through a couple of rooms before tucking herself between me and Gwen and focusing on my back and nothing else.
I *loved* the theatrics of the haunted houses, and I am sure the wide-eyed excitement and compliments were not quite what the monster actors were going for. I didn't scream or shy away from any of them. I think the Zombie house was my favorite, closely followed by the Hallows. I thought the pack of traveling Prison Zombies were hysterical. And then we veered away from the tour group because we were all a little on overload. They tried to get back-doored onto the Mummy ride, but it was down due to technical difficulties, so instead we wandered down some of the streets and saw the flying monkeys - right near the wicked witch of the west's tower.
Sunday was up for some photo ops (Gwen and I got one only becauseheidi8 couldn't use one of hers), and more Q and As. Last night was mostly relaxing with new friends. The travel home today was uneventful, and I napped most of the afternoon to make up for very little sleep the last three days.
The con was... well, for me, kinda disappointing. I am used to a lot of things going on all the time. I am used to having to pick and choose carefully what you go see and do. I am used to lots and lots of people doing lots of different things all at the same time. I am used to way more bustle and less standing around waiting for an event to begin. So while it was an interesting experience, and I loved my roommates (wow, so damn fun!), I don't think I'll go to an event following this model again.
But I met some really cool people. And had some fun at Universal Studios. And saw some really good friends. So I count the weekend a great big win.
gwendolyngrace, jennclack, and I wandered the property to do a little preliminary space planning for Infinitus. There is a lovely outdoor area where the hotel does Luaus and it can be a great little party spot for the event.Afterwords, we took the water taxi to CityWalk and wandered around and did a little shopping. I got a lovely sun hat in a pretty blue. Then we took the water taxi to the Portofino - the other hotel property we have a big block of rooms at. The Portofino is a lovely property - nicer, I think than the Royal Pacific. It was definitely Venice inspired, and has a lot of that old world charm, with courtyards, plazas, and terraces throughout the property. Really nice.
Then we took the water taxi back to the Royal Pacific (about twenty minutes - but we had to change taxis at CityWalk), where we left
jennclack and took a taxi to our hotel where we registered for the event that brought us to Orlando.That evening Gwen went out and I stayed in. It was a long day of travel for me, and I wasn't feeling particularly well. So I watched the debate with one of my roommates and another con attendee. They didn't last through the whole thing, and we talked through a lot of it. But I guess I got a little angry at the TV. Hopefully I didn't freak out the friend-of-roommate too too much. Why I generally don't watch anything political with anyone else in the room. I stress out, and I hate feeling stressed out.
I got to bed around 11. My roommates (we had two adjoining rooms, so there were six of us all together) trickled in between midnight and two am. Saturday, we were up and out early.
heidi8 drove Gwen and I back to the Royal Pacific so we could have breakfast with jennclack, keytothecage, and sap_78. Then we went back to the event in time for the first Q and A session.We snuck out of the last Q and A session of the afternoon because we had VIP passes to the client party at Universal Studios and "RIP Tour" for their Halloween happenings opening weekend. The party was a lot of fun, our sales rep is fantastic, and our tour group was the most fun (two different Universal folks defected from their tour groups to play with us, because we're so damn awesome). We were fast tracked through the events of the evening, so we wandered through three haunted houses, and the Bill and Ted stage show (this year's show? Bill and Ted Meet Hellboy). The Bill and Ted show was a mixed bag of pop culture references. Some of it was funner than other bits of it. The haunted houses were a hell of a lot of fun.
keytothecage only lasted through one, but I am so proud of her for doing that one! We knew way ahead of time that haunted houses freak her right out, and she made it through a couple of rooms before tucking herself between me and Gwen and focusing on my back and nothing else. I *loved* the theatrics of the haunted houses, and I am sure the wide-eyed excitement and compliments were not quite what the monster actors were going for. I didn't scream or shy away from any of them. I think the Zombie house was my favorite, closely followed by the Hallows. I thought the pack of traveling Prison Zombies were hysterical. And then we veered away from the tour group because we were all a little on overload. They tried to get back-doored onto the Mummy ride, but it was down due to technical difficulties, so instead we wandered down some of the streets and saw the flying monkeys - right near the wicked witch of the west's tower.
Sunday was up for some photo ops (Gwen and I got one only because
heidi8 couldn't use one of hers), and more Q and As. Last night was mostly relaxing with new friends. The travel home today was uneventful, and I napped most of the afternoon to make up for very little sleep the last three days.The con was... well, for me, kinda disappointing. I am used to a lot of things going on all the time. I am used to having to pick and choose carefully what you go see and do. I am used to lots and lots of people doing lots of different things all at the same time. I am used to way more bustle and less standing around waiting for an event to begin. So while it was an interesting experience, and I loved my roommates (wow, so damn fun!), I don't think I'll go to an event following this model again.
But I met some really cool people. And had some fun at Universal Studios. And saw some really good friends. So I count the weekend a great big win.
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Talk at you later! Right now I can't brain ... :-p
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Glad you got home safe! I am (mostly) recovered. I slept really hard Monday, and Tuesday only wished for a nap late in the day. Getting back to work kinda sucked, though. Wish I was still on vacation :D
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My ass aims to serve. :D
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Hi again!
Having partially rebooted the brain disk, I just wanted to say, Wow! So *that's* what all else you guys did! ;-) Sounds like you packed a whole lot into your weekend - good on ya!
I agree totally about the need for more Goings On at the con. I had a great time, met lots of fans, hung out with lots of cool people, and generally did all I came to do. (Plus Jim Beaver is of teh awesome, and I could just fold Jared up and take him home with me, and feed him barbeque and beer for evah. *g*)
But the lack of fan panels left a HUGE gaping hole, and made this con seem a lot more commercial than the first. I did miss the "by fans, for fans" aspect of things, and should Kenny ever gear up to do another land-based con ... I fully intend to bend his ear about having more tracks and more Stuff. Particularly now that all SPN cons include guest stars who are no longer on the show, there is a derth of New Stuff for the guests to talk about at their Q&A.s, which means not all fans want to sit in on all Q&A's. Thus it would be good to have alternatives - like fan discussion panels, fan video contests/viewing, art shows, and other alternate track doings.
But ... whatever. ;-) It was the *people* that made this con for me, some famous and some not so much. I *am* pondering whether I'd brave a Creation event sometime in 2009, just because I'd like to round out my SPN fan experience by seeing Jensen, before it's all over. But ... who knows. That's a long ways away.
Did I have a point? *searches brain, looks under desk* Huh. Guess not. ANYhow, guess I'm just here to say HI! *waves* :-D
Cheers ~
Erin
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Yes, I am used to having to pick very carefully what you want to see and do, because there is so MUCH going on. I agree Jim Beaver is teh awesome - he is my favorite!
And I had lots of fun, but I am really glad I had other stuff going on during the weekend because otherwise I think I would have had stretches of time where I was quite bored.
But you guys totally made the weekend! ♥