Big weekend has come and gone, today is a vacation day. On Revenge of the Fifth, the Empire recoups.
Friday after work I went to a local high school that had an art festival. Decided to go ISB officer, save the 'trooper for Saturday & it's relevant now with Andor. We were very concerned about rain but it was good until the last 30min. We stayed under that pop up for a bit and the principal thanked us for being there, and said everyone was wrapping up anyway.
They had a costume contest & asked us to judge. He shoved the microphone in my hand and I was like uh, ok. The Tusken Raider got this photo and made me into a meme.
Saturday early, I did a troop at my favorite local vintage toy store. I know the owner now & we had talked about it for years, but the local LEGO Brick store kinda stole his thunder & the tunr-out wasn't as big as he had hoped. The rain didn't help I'm sure, but he still had a decent number of customers. Plus we caught people going into/leaving Ollie's next door so that was fun. I also talked everyone into walking down to the local hobby shop in the plaza, that was fun! They geeked out over us.
The next stop was the Plaza Theatre in Miamisburg, showing A New Hope Saturday. With the cold and rain, and small dressing area up narrow stairs, I decided to switch to the scanning crew. I left the undersuit on for warmth and dressed at home, no dressing room needed! With a few last-minute signups we had about 8-10 people, decent turnout. The owner of the theater loves us and let us pass the bucket to raise $ for charity.
Some of us decided to go to dinner afterwards (I had eaten around 3pm in-between events when I let my dog out and was getting hungry).
So Dennis and I went to dinner in costume.
Sunday at noon we did the theater again, this time showing Empire Strikes Back. With the cooler temps I said I don't care about the small room or stairs, I'm bringing the snowtrooper. It was perfect, around 52F and overcast. I had a white GRM long sleeve underneath just in case but probably didn't need it.
Katie wore her Hoth Leia so I said I need a photo while we're both here in appropriate costumes. A What If version of ESB?
We raised a bit over $700 between the two days at the theater, just passing a costume helmet around the audience both days, for Make A Wish. Not bad.
After the event Sunday I went to the ice cream shop across the street that was doing the Fanta-m Menace again, orange Fanta with vanilla Gelato. So good. Then I went home and watched Revenge of the Sith and lounged with the cats and dog. Whew.
