Expo Weekend! (Patreon)

Hey everyone! I know a lot of you aren't in my Discord server and don't follow me on social media, so I wanted to share some photos from this past weekend with you all! First up is my photo with Hayden Christensen and the autograph that I got from him!

I had a few things planned to say to him during the autograph, because I knew I'd have more time than the photo, but honestly NOT MUCH. Once I realized just how little time I actually had to talk to him, I had to improvise very quickly. 😅 Getting to experience just how many people they run through both autographs and photo ops, I honestly have way more respect for him (and other big celebrities) for smiling and signing for so many hours in a row. I know I would be absolutely exhausted by the end of that. And even after all that, he then got up on stage for about 45 minutes to chat. He talked about being back in Star Wars and his experience filming Obi-Wan Kenobi, he reminisced on moments from the prequels and talked a lot about Nick Gillard and the lightsaber battle training, he played a game of This or That (that the audience also played), and then a couple people in the audience let him know that the Leafs won the series last night, to which his reaction was PRICELESS and so fun. Here's a video of that moment.

Outside of Hayden stuff, I had a great time walking around and looking at all the vendors and I ended up purchasing some things to put in the office and around the house!

First up is this beautiful Ahsoka artwork that the artist signed for me.

Then I got three prints from the same artist, Disparody, who paints really hilarious scenes. First up, "Dropping Acid".

Then "Sith's Sense". I had to get this one because of my love of metal music.

And finally, my favourite piece... "Imperial Baking Party". There are so many DETAILS in this one that make me laugh so hard. Palpatine wearing Crocs. Vader wearing a Hufflepuff apron. The family photo on the wall of Vader, Luke, and Leia. The carbonite Han Solo. The Live Love Laugh poster. And the Death Star lights.

Disparody was offering a pretty steep discount for Expo goers, which is why I decided to get these! But if you wanted to shop these hilarious prints for yourself, you can do so here.

OH I FORGOT. I also bought 3 movie posters! Here they are:

Finally, I didn't get very many photos with cosplayers. But there were three that I had to.

First up, Jon Snow and the Night King:

And finally, Captain Rex from Rebels. ❤️ Honestly a perfect cosplay.

My first Expo was very fun, but very tiring. I am so stoked my best friend was able to join me on Saturday. She didn't buy an autograph, but they allowed up to 3 people to go into the autograph room even if only one person was getting something signed. So she was able to get that chance to see Hayden and say hello to him (and him back to her). So that was really exciting for her and I'm really happy she was able to join me for that.

Finally... a real "OMG" moment for me was when a couple viewers of the channel recognized me and got my attention. They were just ahead of me and my friend in the lineup for Hayden's autograph and a photo was taken! I told him to share it on Instagram and tag me, which he did!

My Alberta viewership is not that large (relative to the population), so to meet someone who watches my channel often enough to recognize me and say something was very cool. 😊 And one of the members here (Burnsey) was at the Expo too, though unfortunately didn't get a chance to meet in person.

And that about wraps up the weekend! I will be officially on my break now, and I'll post again here on Patreon on Friday when I'm back at it. I'm excited to take a big screen break and finally tackle some home things that I've been neglecting for a while, but hey it's that spring cleaning time of year anyway so it's fine, right. Also going to take the opportunity to rearrange the office stuff a little bit to show off some of the things I got!

Wishing you all the most fantastic week ahead! ❤️

✦ KL