I have no excuses. I have had time to blog, but I go and have adventures instead of actively choosing not to blog about sitting in my room all day, like I did in Vernon.
This is going to be the first of four posts à la suite which I’m going to get up as soon as they’re finished with very little proofreading.
THE STAR WARS CONVENTION WAS INCREDIBLE. I didn’t take a ton of pictures because walking around with a five year-old dressed as Kylo Ren is not a time to take pictures because if you take your eyes off of him, he is forever lost in the sea of Kylo Rens. Even if you’re with two other adults who are responsible for him. There must be six pairs of eyes on him at all times. Like today, I took him to the grocery store just before lunch and when I grabbed a cantaloupe, he was already gone. I spent a good five minutes tracking him down in the tiny Casino (the store, not an actual casino, could you imagine?). The kid is a walking disaster sometimes.
There were so many baby Reys it made me so happy. She’s my favorite character in the new movie I think. But also I love Finn and Poe so just don’t make me choose okay? I tried to dress up like Rey, but it didn’t really work. But then I found the only Finn at the con and took a picture with him so that was fabulous. He was so nice and all of my au pair friends thought he was my boyfriend or something and I was just like, “no I met him at the star wars con”.
Then, we got onto the con floor and I about died because there were way too many people there for it to be enjoyable, plus I had a disappearing five year-old on my hands. We walked by the autograph tables and I saw a guy there who looked very similar to George Lucas. His name tag also said “George Lucas” but I was like “no, it’s not really George Lucas this is small town France.” And so as soon as I got home, I googled him.
It was George Lucas.
My favorite moment of the con though was when I saw a guy dressed as Indiana Jones strike up a conversation with a guy dressed as Han Solo. I found it hilarious and my host dad had a really hard time figuring out why I was laughing so hard. I don’t really know why I thought it was so funny because neither of them was Harrison Ford, but I said “oh my lord it’s two Harrison Fords talking to each other.” I said that out loud. In English. Because for some reason that was my thought process in that moment. It’s not really a funny story to tell but in that moment I was dying.
Then we went home and had Oreos and milk for a snack and I had a ton of lightsaber battles with Kylo Ren because I’m the only one who will have countless lightsaber battles with him. I’m just glad I get to be my normal geeky self here. Harry Potter, Star Wars, History. It’s absolutely fab.
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