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Vancouver tour, part 1
Oct. 18th, 2007 07:24 pmThe PWFC Friendship Con in Philadelphia in September followed by the Homeward: HLWW8 in Vancouver in October. Sounded kind of nuts, actually, attending two cons so close together, but then I signed on for the 4-day post-con tour of Vancouver with Adrian Paul. Yep. I'm officially nuts. Or a fanatic. Maybe just a fan.
On Thursday night of HLWW8 Carmel called all the tour members together and told us she had bad news. Adrian needed to leave even sooner and expected to start filming his next picture in Bulgaria. Initially the con was supposed to start on Tuesday and run through Friday. Then we would start on Monday. Now Carmel had arranged something for us on Sunday evening from 5:30-7:30 and we would have Adrian on Monday.
That was the bad news. Less Adrian. The good news was more tour - official tour activities were now scheduled from Sunday though Friday with a half day of optional activities on Saturday and, on top of that, we were going to have a special guest to fill in for Adrian during the week.
On Sunday after the con all of us signed up for the tour were loaded on a bus and found ourselves at the Orpheum Theater.
While the theater was closed to the public due to a city-wide strike, Carmel had arranged for the executive director of the theater to open it for us. Carmel and Adrian arrived soon and we made our way into theater itself.
This was one of the places high on my list to see on the tour, Wrath of Kali, Song of the Executioner and other episodes were filmed here. Adrian sat on stage and talked about working in the theater and took answered our questions.
We walked back to the area that was used for the palace in Wrath of Kali and several us took our turn to pose with Adrian for our tour pictures. The strangest thing, though, was how nervous I was standing next to Adrian. I am not normally intimidated by people. Not Peter Wingfield or David Abramowitz or any the other people associated with Highlander have ever made me feel this nervous. I'm sure that the expression on my face was anything but a smile. Not to worry, though, by Sunday evening I found myself very relaxed with Adrian.
But that's a story for another day.
More Sunday pictures are at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valoise/sets/72157602478884928/
On Thursday night of HLWW8 Carmel called all the tour members together and told us she had bad news. Adrian needed to leave even sooner and expected to start filming his next picture in Bulgaria. Initially the con was supposed to start on Tuesday and run through Friday. Then we would start on Monday. Now Carmel had arranged something for us on Sunday evening from 5:30-7:30 and we would have Adrian on Monday.
That was the bad news. Less Adrian. The good news was more tour - official tour activities were now scheduled from Sunday though Friday with a half day of optional activities on Saturday and, on top of that, we were going to have a special guest to fill in for Adrian during the week.
On Sunday after the con all of us signed up for the tour were loaded on a bus and found ourselves at the Orpheum Theater.
While the theater was closed to the public due to a city-wide strike, Carmel had arranged for the executive director of the theater to open it for us. Carmel and Adrian arrived soon and we made our way into theater itself.
This was one of the places high on my list to see on the tour, Wrath of Kali, Song of the Executioner and other episodes were filmed here. Adrian sat on stage and talked about working in the theater and took answered our questions.
We walked back to the area that was used for the palace in Wrath of Kali and several us took our turn to pose with Adrian for our tour pictures. The strangest thing, though, was how nervous I was standing next to Adrian. I am not normally intimidated by people. Not Peter Wingfield or David Abramowitz or any the other people associated with Highlander have ever made me feel this nervous. I'm sure that the expression on my face was anything but a smile. Not to worry, though, by Sunday evening I found myself very relaxed with Adrian.
But that's a story for another day.
More Sunday pictures are at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valoise/sets/72157602478884928/
