Well that was fun ...knackering , but fun ;D
Got a great deal at the Holiday Inn , £49 a night with full English Brekkie and use of the pool , which we did make use of ...briefly ;D... plus , the hotel is just across the road from the shopping centre ...Bargain , and I do love a bargain ;D
Vix and I arrived on Friday way too early for check-in , but we were able to leave our bags and hop skip and jump to the shopping centre for some retail therapy , and hopefully also able to pick up a couple of photo ops for Michael Rosenbaum since I hadn't bought any online in case of another cancellation .
We wandered around the Collectormania bit gawping at actors we'd never heard of , or didn't recognise out of costume for a bit before finally finding the Organisers booth , only to find that we couldn't get any tickets till this morning , but as we'd have to be up early a) for brekkie, and b) because Michaels photo session was scheduled for 10:20 am it wasn't a problem , and we had our tickets in our hot little hands just in time to join the massive queue snaking around John Lewis's .
We didn't have too long to wait and we were just inside the booth when disaster struck ! The sun had come out and was streaming through the glass roof onto the spot where we had to stand with the vision of extreme cuteness that was Mr Rosenbaum ....it was excruciating having to stand there with his arm around one and having a little chat whilst the photographer had to keep adjusting his paraphernalia
Me : ' Hello '
Michael , taking my hand in a nice , firm , warm grip and with a beautiful smile : ' Sorry about the wait , are you ok ?'
Me: ' Oh, I'm perfectly fine thank you ' ...grinning from ear to ear ;D
Michael : ' I just flew in last night , you know you're going to have to hold me up '
Me , almost turning into a puddle of goo : ' Nope, you're going to have to hold me up ' ;D
The photographer had been clicking away all morning , and after every pic he'd taken , he looked at it, said ' Brilliant...don't forget to get your ticket '
Well, after he'd finally taken ours I turned to Michael , and he turned to me and we both said ' Brilliant ' , and then dissolved into giggles ;D
I waited at the side to see Vix have hers taken and was standing next to another good looking chap with an American accent who'd been bringing MR drinks , and he said 'Oh, she's
cute ..and bless him, he went bright red when I gave him a mock stern look and said 'She 's my daughter' ...I do like a bit of Yank baiting now and again ...just ask M ;D
*sigh* I seem to have created a rod for my own back as V has developed a massive crush on MR too now, he was just so very sweet , gracious and funny , despite horrendous jet-lag ... and I can see this is going to cost me big !
We'd picked up auto tickets as soon as we got to the centre , and after lunch mooched on over to see where he was at in the signings ....Nooo! , only up to 1 -100 , and we were 374 and 375 !
We could see we were never going to get ours before heading off home ...unless I could sweet talk 'Mr Maybe ' !
This was the cheeky chap who'd replied 'Maybe' when we asked if he had the MR auto tickets earlier that morning , so when we went back to the signing tables , I said ' Hello Mr Maybe ', he laughed and I explained that we had a train to catch , and could we please jump the queue ...he very kindly agreed and we dashed in , me with my 'Sorority Boys ' DVD and Vix with her Lex promo pic .
I told V...' See what you get for being charming ?'
She said ' Nah mum, he was just very, very scared ' ;D
I think MR was a bit chuffed to have something from SB to sign ,cos when he saw the dvd cover he kinda yelled 'Yeah Baby ' and started writing ....we then both got the giggles again , because after he personalised it and signed his name , he put Lex & Adina , and undeneath he wrote in capital letters , I HAVE A FAT ASS ;D ...You'd have to have seen the film to get the meaning , but it cracked me up big time *snorfle*
We had to say goodbye then , and go back to the hotel to collect our bags (which they'd kindly stored for us even though we'd checked out much, much earlier ) and leave for home
We wanna see him again ...he's sooo cute with hair and a little bum fluff ;D
Which reminds me , Collectormania 15 will be in the first week of June next year and will be moving to the MK Stadium .