Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Fun Expo 2013

 Well a few weeks later we were back at Fun Expo in Welland. This was our third year attending. Its a star wars related show for charity and we had liked going to it in previous years. This year would be different. We would be having a table there to promote We Got The Geek. Bulmer had talked us up to the guy in charge of the event Mr  Rob D'Onofrio. We were honored to be there. We set up our table and played the roll the dice game. Our buddy Ryan showed up and took a million awesome pictures and he helped me do several interviews. We interviewed three amazing artists-Christopher yao, Mike Rooth and Leonard Kirk(who works for Marvel comics).

Now i want to tell you the amazing  part of the day. I got to interview 2 actors that had appeared in the original Star Wars trilogy. Firs up was Pam Rose who played an alien in the famous Cantina scene from the original film. We also got to talk with Mr Alan Flyng who was in not 1 but 2 star wars films. He played a storm trooper in the scene where Han Solo was frozen in the Empire Strikes Back and in Return of the Jedi he played an imperial officer. I've been a huge star wars fan my whole life so i was seriously nerding out. They were both really nice. I was so nervous talking to them but i think i did a good job.


 So to top off the day,as i was helping John pack up his table. Pam Rose came by and invited Kath and i along to the end of the day dinner celebrating the day. I was in shock. We went to dinner and it was the perfect end to the perfect day. Thanks
 Rob for including us.We'll see you next year at Fun Expo 2014


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