Saturday at SDCC

Today was the greatest day in the history of days...

Seriously I must have cashed in on all the good karma in my life because I cannot even begin to believe how lucky I felt this day! 

We started out hitting the exhibit hall floor the second it opened and made a bee line for the Marvel booth. The Avengers cast was going to be doing a signing later that day and I wanted to get a ticket to see them SO BAD! We managed to get a place in line about a 100 deep and had to pull a ticket from a bowl to see if we won a pass to the signing. Brandon went first and ended up with a Thor trading card :( sorry Brandon no signing for you. I went after and pulled a ticket for the Ant Man signing later that day. While I admit I was disappointed that it wasn't the Avengers, I was excited to see the Ant Man cast. I love Paul Rudd and it would be pretty awesome to meet him. SO... score one for the day! 

Next up, we waited in a nice long Starbucks line. This gave us some fuel to hold us over for our second attempt to go on the Gotham zip line. They opened at nine and we got there about 9:15. We were told it would be about a 3 hr wait. Yikes! I still wanted to go on it, so we decided to settle in and enjoy the wait in the awesome San Diego weather. After a bit, Brandon went to go grab a drink and I was holding our spot in line. The girl behind me let out a soft shriek and ran off. This had my attention. When she returned she was telling us how she had just spotted Mark Sheppard and Misha Collins walk by! She was denied a chance to talk to them by the security guard and bummed she missed the chance. After looking at where she went, I saw that they were still there!! SO, buh bye zip line!!! I wanted to see if I could meet them. There was literally NO CROWD around them at all and I wanted to seize the moment. by the time I got there they were into a building for a press thing, but I figured that they would have to leave sometime! I picked a spot on a close bench, ate some lunch and waited....

Then to my surprise, more people started showing up for their press obligations too! There was a fair amount of security by the door, but the celebs were happy to stop and take pictures, sign autographs with the few people waiting by the door for them. O.M.G I was so excited! I first got to meet the one and only Chris Parnell! The cast of Archer was making it's way out of the building. He stopped, took a picture with me and even made some small talk. SO AWESOME! 

Why yes, this IS Cryil Figgis.

Then more people started streaming in and out and I seriously felt like I had hit the jack pot! I was most excited to meet my Misha and Mark ( who were sincerely kind to everyone there). It was so exciting for me to see who was arriving next. 

I just love this guy.

I would have really liked to re take this picture,
but we ran out of time.

James Spader stopped by, took pictures with every single person there. THEN he waited around and just hung out with people for about a half hour. It was surreal.

Didn't I just see your face on the side of a bus?

I thought my day couldn't get any better, when the cast of ORPHAN BACK showed up ( minus Tatiana Maslany though). I must have died and gone to heaven. I didn't get a picture with each of them, but I am pretty stoked about the two that I did get! 

It was difficult not to pinch him, he's so cute.

Look at that smile! 

I managed to see the cast of Resurrection, the cast of Archer, the cast of Orphan black, and even Mike Tyson before I had to leave to get to the Ant man signing! For someone who loves celeb sightings, my day couldn't have been any better! 

The Marvel booth was packed as always and having trouble directing people to the right place to line up. We had to stand around and wait for the line to get figured out, then we were good to go!

My new BFF, Paul Rudd just waiting patiently to meet me

Once the line started moving, it was my turn in no time. Paul Rudd was super nice and a lot of fun to talk to. Michael Douglas just looked shell shocked ( he said it was his first time to Comic Con) and Corey Stoll liked my shirt. All that and I got to see the first peek at what the helmet will look like as well as a personalized autographed poster - that now hangs in my classroom-. 

Brandon and I were both ready for a rest, so we went out and grabbed some lunch in the Gas Lamp. We had plenty of time to talk about the crazy day we just had, eat some food and let our adrenaline settle for a bit. 

We headed back to the convention center and were able to squeeze into Hall H so see some panels. I LOVED the women who kick ass panel and really enjoyed the conversation as well as the perspectives from the panel. Then the Marvel panel started. Oh Robert Downy Jr, how I love you! He came into the hall throwing roses and dancing for the audience. The whole cast was there and we got to see some exclusive clips. I love how the people that I just met came out to thunderous applause (James Spader will be in the Avengers Age of Ultron and after that session Ant Man came onstage). 

There was a 2hr wait between the Marvel panel ad the DC one. We were done with waiting and like thousands of our Hall H friends decided to head out. Although the DC panel had some great swag for the audience, I wish they had just gone back to back. Most people had been either in line or in that room for over 24hrs at that point. 

We had passes to go to a MGMT concert that was being held on an aircraft carrier that night, but we were too tired to go - my age finally caught up with me- so back to the room and bed time for me! 

WHAT AN AMAZING DAY! I never did get to go on that zip line though...