The Elf Fantasy Fair (2009) April 26, 2009

Read and set to be picked up by a friend and leave my place at 9.20 am there soon were troubles to encounter. At my place they are renewing roads everywhere, so it was hard to manage to find our way with all the blocked roads. Especially since I’m not good at remembering my way . When we finally found the highway, we came into a traffic block, also because a renewing of it. When we finally were on our way, we had the leave the freeway again, which meant we would be almost there. But then we managed to get lost, again. Finally at around 11.00 am we arrived, had luck with finding a parking spot. The fun could begin…

At noon James Marsters (Spike in Buffy) would be at a Q&A, and both my friend and I wanted to be there. We agreed to walk around a bit first, and then at 11.30am we would go to the “Movie Theatre” to wait for the Q&A to start. However, what we didn’t know there was another lecture first, we decided to sit down anyway and stay seated, and it was a good thing we did, because we now had the best place you can imagine: front row and good sight. The Q&A was awsome, JM was very open, answered almost every question asked an took his time. All too soon it was over.

We went looking  for the Walk of Fame, because we so wanted our picture taken with him. Finally, after a long search, noticing things weren’t exactly as on the map, we found it, bought our ticket and stood in line, only to figure out we were way to early. We decided to look around and soon we found ourselves in medieval times. Last year I was looking around for some medieval clothing, I found a dress which I liked, bought it, but it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for. This time, I did find what I was looking for: a skirt, blouse and bodice. I fitted it on, the sellers were very friendly and helped me. My German however, isn’t nearly as good as my English, but I managed. They would keep it aside for me, because I hadn’t that much money with me (and remembering last year that drawing money wasn’t exactly a problem, I didn’t bother taking more money with me than I though I would need).

That settled, it was time for the photoshoot lining up. We waited 45 minutes and that’s been a good thing too, because after only 15 minutes the line had grown immensly. When JM arrived, the shoot itself went quickly and it was very well organized. He is smaller than I though he would be :duck: , but he is really nice. Below the end result:

After the shoot, I wanted to draw money, however, they had gotten this mobile atm, which was giving lots of trouble and only accepted the passes of people who had an account with them. Conclusion: I didn’t had any moeny for my lovely outfit . As I said before the sellers were unbelievably nice and agreed to sent them to me as soon as I paid. I got their business card with the address of their shop (Familago) on which I would find the email address. I immediately mailed them when I got home, of course, they are still at the fair at the moment. Hopefully I will get my outfit soon .

Somehow, I didn’t feel making a lot of pictures, here are some random ones. There’s one with me holding a falcon as well.