Hi All!

This is Darthcharlie32, your roving Rebel CIV reporter!

Wow! What A great Weekend, I have to say, I met two fellow bloggers and went to CIV, I've got to thank everyone, from the Famous to the guys behind the curtain setting the stuff up (Sometimes that was the same guy!) who worked so hard to give Star Wars the birthday bash It Deserved

As those of you who have been reading my blog know, I just got back from Celebration IV. And even though my hotel had free Internet. I dont have a laptop. So I took it upon myself to keep an abbreviated journal and do a blog of my first convention.

Now I know that some of you have read some of the goings on of CIV (Or heard a story of mine, as I told everyone most of them and the convention) , but I will write this as I saw it. Sorry if I make a big deal about a widely reported event, I have not read a single CIV blog yet


Now that the intro is out of the way..... On with the Show!

May 23rd 8:51 am

I sit in my seat as my plane that is supposed to fly to O'Hare is parked on the edge of a rural runway as Chicago has issued a "Ground Stop"

Even though the view outside the window is a lovely sewage drain I am ecstatic. I am on a plane to California..... well.... Illinois and California....

And its the first time i've been in a plane made after 1944, one that actualy flies.

Chicago

Well, Star Wars has finaly made an appearance into my day, after spotting a Jedi hat and a Star Wars T-shirt, me and Mom sit down, I have the window seat (First Trip Rules!) and she is in the middle of the 3 seats, a few minutes before the flight a young woman sits down next to mom, being excited over changing planes my StarWarsdarTM was a little off, but mom noticed that she had a Revenge of the Sith backpack and a Skywalker shirt. She asked the innocent question "Are you going to the Star Wars Convention?"

As it turns out, we were seated next to a finalist in Star Wars Celebrity

Bethany AKA JediPrincess77

L.A

After some light conversation on the plane we seperated in LAX, only to meet again at Baggage, here we chatted some more, then she asked "Do you Post on the site?"

I said "I really dont post on the boards but I do have a blog"

"Oh? What's your name?"

I stood there for a second, as I could not remember my username for SW.com (Notice I've signed off as DC32 for a while, the abbriviation held me up)

I told her my username and she said "Oh! I totally know who you are!" and she told me she was Jediprincess77, Which made me very happy, I kinda reconised the name from a reply somewhere, but up until then I really did not think anyone outside of a small group actualy recalled visiting my little Cantina at the End of the Universe

Another First, meeting someone from StarWars.com

After some confusion as to which shuttle we should take we loaded up and raced to the hotel. After meeting our favorite front desk guy ever, we unpacked and then took a car Zia had called (The guy, more on him later) and went to the Convention Center.

I about cried, That evening and the next day felt like that moment in the original Battlestar Galactica movie where all of the Colonial ships meet and become the fleet, It felt like someone had flipped a switch and now all Star Wars fans flocked to California

We stepped inside and were greeted by a giant Death Star hanging from the ceiling. Me and Mom went to stand in the Will Call line, at the end of it was an man in his 50's, a few other guys, and a little person in a wheelchair. The First man asked in an accent that to me was somewhere between Brittish and Scottish "Are you wanting to get in the Que? We aren't"

Mom Excused us and we got into the will call line, I felt something, something I'd not felt since "A Galaxy of Dreams".... hence compelling me to whip my camera out and take a quick shot of the group to look at later, I tapped mom on the shoulder and said "You know who that was? ********! (Censored to make the end of the story work)

I'll tell you what happened and who the other blogger I met was in the next issues of (Notice the Plural...)

My Celebration!