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Jul. 24th, 2003 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsOk, I'm going to break this down into parts as it'll just be too long otherwise. For both Toronto and Tampa I'll do three posts. Pre-con activities, con stuff, post con activities. I'll include pics where I have them but I still haven't fixed up the Q & A ones. I'll have to do that when I get home so I can use photoshop
So here we go
Tuesday 8th July
Holiday has really begun now. Spent the morning slobbing around at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
supernaturalhel's. We watched Not Another Teen Movie which was funny and gross at the same time. Then we headed off to the station. We were pretty early but luckily there was an earlier train that I managed to catch. Navigating the tube with my suitcase was fun. I had to drag the bloddy thing up and down several flights of stairs. Why they don't have lifts is beyond me.
Anyway, made it to the hotel in Heathrow without any problems (aside from the stairs of course). This evening I treated myself to a rather expensive but very nice dinner. Spoiled slightly by the fact that I had to eat alone but these things can't be helped. Came back to my room, read a Buffy magazine and then settled myself down to enjoy a good Bond movie (Dr No). Am getting picked up at 5:15 tomorrow which means I'll have to get up at 4:30. I can't remember the last time I saw that time of morning. Fun!
Wednesday 9th July
God I'm exhausted! I was doing pretty well with the whole jet lag thing but it's now about 2am British time and I'm still sat in Washington Airport. Day started off well aside from one minor mishap. Managed to drag myself out of bed at 4:45am and get myself reading and checked out in time for my taxi. The problem? There WAS no taxi. 15 minutes passed and I eventually called the company who claimed that the driver had turned up and been told I was getting the bus. Bullshit! I got very angry and yelled at them and 5 minutes later the taxi arrived. Only ended up being 5 minutes late to the airport and it didn't really matter anyway, the place was deserted. It only took me about ten minutes to get checked in and everything and this left me with about 2 hours to kill. Luckily I found an internet cafe (why don't all airports have these?) and that killed some time as did breakfast.
Getting on the plane reminded me how much I dislike flying. Taking off and landing are the most terrifying experiences EVER. When I'm in the air I'm fine, all you can see is cloud and you kind of forget that you're thousands of feet in the air.
Anyway, met up with Kristin at the airport and she goes on the list as yet another internet friend who is lovely in real life (in fact that goes for everyone I met while I was away). We had lunch together and just chatted like we were old friends.
The time soon came for me to catch my plane to Toronto and this was where the problem. I'd been in the boarding lounge for 5 minutes when all of a sudden this tropical storm came out of nowhere. I'd never seen anything like it in my life. There were gale force winds, forked lightning, thunder, torrential rain, it was incredible to look at. We just don't get storms like that here. And it was still really hot outside. Unfortunately the storm resulted in my plane being delayed which is why I'm still in Washington and not halfway to Toronto like I should be. Still, the plane is here now so hopefully it won't be too much longer.
Ended up being 2 hours late into Toronto. Daks and Py are lovely and they had a wheelchair fight while they were waiting for me. Which I'd been there for that. LOL. I haven't slept in about 24 hours so I guess I should head to bed.
Thursday 10th July
Today has been so much fun. We went to the race track at Woodbine and had a lovely buffet lunch. Banana pancakes are to die for! Daks got me and Py addicted to betting on the horses. I won a couple but Py won loads. She then stated learning how to read all the stats and I predict she'll be at gamblers annonymous before too long ;)
In the evening we went to see Charlie's Angels 2. It was a lot of fun and a loads better than the first one. We're going shopping tomorrow and I'm making it my mission to find a Spike coat.
So here we go
Tuesday 8th July
Holiday has really begun now. Spent the morning slobbing around at
supernaturalhel's. We watched Not Another Teen Movie which was funny and gross at the same time. Then we headed off to the station. We were pretty early but luckily there was an earlier train that I managed to catch. Navigating the tube with my suitcase was fun. I had to drag the bloddy thing up and down several flights of stairs. Why they don't have lifts is beyond me. Anyway, made it to the hotel in Heathrow without any problems (aside from the stairs of course). This evening I treated myself to a rather expensive but very nice dinner. Spoiled slightly by the fact that I had to eat alone but these things can't be helped. Came back to my room, read a Buffy magazine and then settled myself down to enjoy a good Bond movie (Dr No). Am getting picked up at 5:15 tomorrow which means I'll have to get up at 4:30. I can't remember the last time I saw that time of morning. Fun!
Wednesday 9th July
God I'm exhausted! I was doing pretty well with the whole jet lag thing but it's now about 2am British time and I'm still sat in Washington Airport. Day started off well aside from one minor mishap. Managed to drag myself out of bed at 4:45am and get myself reading and checked out in time for my taxi. The problem? There WAS no taxi. 15 minutes passed and I eventually called the company who claimed that the driver had turned up and been told I was getting the bus. Bullshit! I got very angry and yelled at them and 5 minutes later the taxi arrived. Only ended up being 5 minutes late to the airport and it didn't really matter anyway, the place was deserted. It only took me about ten minutes to get checked in and everything and this left me with about 2 hours to kill. Luckily I found an internet cafe (why don't all airports have these?) and that killed some time as did breakfast.
Getting on the plane reminded me how much I dislike flying. Taking off and landing are the most terrifying experiences EVER. When I'm in the air I'm fine, all you can see is cloud and you kind of forget that you're thousands of feet in the air.
Anyway, met up with Kristin at the airport and she goes on the list as yet another internet friend who is lovely in real life (in fact that goes for everyone I met while I was away). We had lunch together and just chatted like we were old friends.
The time soon came for me to catch my plane to Toronto and this was where the problem. I'd been in the boarding lounge for 5 minutes when all of a sudden this tropical storm came out of nowhere. I'd never seen anything like it in my life. There were gale force winds, forked lightning, thunder, torrential rain, it was incredible to look at. We just don't get storms like that here. And it was still really hot outside. Unfortunately the storm resulted in my plane being delayed which is why I'm still in Washington and not halfway to Toronto like I should be. Still, the plane is here now so hopefully it won't be too much longer.
Ended up being 2 hours late into Toronto. Daks and Py are lovely and they had a wheelchair fight while they were waiting for me. Which I'd been there for that. LOL. I haven't slept in about 24 hours so I guess I should head to bed.
Thursday 10th July
Today has been so much fun. We went to the race track at Woodbine and had a lovely buffet lunch. Banana pancakes are to die for! Daks got me and Py addicted to betting on the horses. I won a couple but Py won loads. She then stated learning how to read all the stats and I predict she'll be at gamblers annonymous before too long ;)
In the evening we went to see Charlie's Angels 2. It was a lot of fun and a loads better than the first one. We're going shopping tomorrow and I'm making it my mission to find a Spike coat.