Salt Lake ComicCon Day 3 Recap

For Day 3 (Saturday) of Salt Lake ComicCon 2014 Jan had managed to get a free day pass for Kristina and we went in a side door so Jan could use the rest room and managed to avoid lines and crowds all together.  That was nice.  The first thing we did was head toward Eliza Dushku's booth, but she had stepped away and changed it so you couldn't take photos and her autograph price went up.  So we decided to do a photo op with her instead as it would save us some money.  We tried to make it into John Barrowman's panel but there were a thousand or more people waiting in line so we weren't getting in.  We decided to grab a bite to eat and hide from the madness in the Game Room for a bit.

We then spent a half hour waiting in line for the photo op with Eliza Dushku.  It was irritating and there was a really annoying guy behind us, but it was all worth it when she put her arm around me and said "Hello groovy people!"  She's so pretty, and so so tiny.

As soon as we were done with Eliza's photo op we rushed to the line for John Barrowman's photo op. This one was incredibly long and people were already sitting because they'd been waiting a bit.  We waited about an hour in that line before the fire alarm went off.  Everyone kind of stood there looking at each other, but none of the volunteers or celebs were evacuating so we all stayed put.  The girl in front of us said that her friends who were out to the front were being evacuated, so I walked up front to ask the staff.  I said "Is this all okay? Are we fine staying put?" and he said "That's up to you" with a sneer.  So I said "Well you're not going anywhere..." and he just shrugged and turned away.  What a douche-but then we found out that they had faked the Fire Alarm in order to get some people out because they were over capacity.  Shady shady.   We did finally make it into get our photo-and I look awful, but John Barrowman is hot.

While waiting in John Barrowman's line our old pal Doug tapped me on the shoulder.  He was over a ways in the line and we hadn't seen him in years.  This pretty Jasmine also came over to ask about what we were getting our photos done for, and I asked to take her photo.

As soon as we got out of our photo op Kristina and Jan ran for some air (Kristina was beyond stressed by the crowds) and Ken and I waited for the prints.  We then decided to head towards the Game Room because we needed a break and our legs were aching.  He took off his wig and I had to get this hilarious photo of him enjoying it being gone, and the mark it had left.

We finally found Kristina and Jan again and we decided to get a couple of group shots before we called it quits.

Check out day 1 HERE and day 2 HERE.

Salt Lake ComicCon Day 2 Recap

The second day of Salt Lake ComicCon (Friday) was significantly easier to get in.  It didn't look like it was going to be, but since they had posted a huge apology on their Facebook page vowing to make it right to anyone who felt they weren't treated fairly.  Apparently there were a bunch of people who bought tickets and then stood in the registration line for 4 hours before being told to go home because they were at capacity, and they were angry.    

We didn't feel like we needed a refund, but they had forgotten to give us our photo cash the day before.  We hopped in the tremendously huge Gold pass line while Jan (who is the celebrity whisperer-no lie) went to talk to Bryan Brandonberg.  Long story short she managed to get a second Gold Pass free for her son (it was his birthday) and she called to tell us she was already in... She recommended we go to the VIP desk to get our cash vouchers, and once we did they just let us in instead of forcing us to wait in the big line again.  That was nice.  We immediately headed for Cary Elwes' booth because Ken wanted to make sure to meet him before the lines got out of control.

Cary Elwes was awesome-he put curtains up all around his booth so he could have private moments with his guests instead of rushing them through-probably also to prevent people just snapping pictures while waiting.  We got in, he signed a photo for Ken, and then he took a photo with us.  He hugged us all as we went to leave, and while I'm not a huge fangirl-I got out of that booth and actually squealed... He just smelled so nice, and was so damn suave.  I also promised him as I was leaving I'd tell you all about his book on the blog.

His book is up for Pre-Order on Amazon-it's called As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes, but he said the other cast members helped contribute as well.  If you Pre-Order it now, it's only $16.95 but will be $25 after it's released in October-so snag it now if you're a fan.

After waiting in his line we decided we really wanted to do a little wandering as we hadn't done enough the day before.  We found the Evermore Park booth.  Evermore Park is a new steampunk theme park coming to Utah in 2015-and it's going to be open year round with lots of great activities and fun events year round!  I'm kind of excited-it looks like it is going to be very awesome!

Salt Lake ComicCon Day 1 Recap

Hello readers!  How have you been?  First of all, let me say I am very sorry that I totally left you for 3 days without anything here on the blog.  I failed to plan posts, and I was at Salt Lake ComicCon 2014 and I had a blast!  The first day of the con was Thursday, and we had pre-purchased Gold passes months in advance but had not registered.  By the time we showed up at the Salt Palace Convention Center the line was already around the entire building.  We remarked that it looked like Saturday had looked last year, and that was strange for a Thursday! I hopped in line while Ken ran up front to see if Gold Pass members needed to wait in that line.  He called me ten minutes later to tell me he'd found someone who'd fast track us in.