Thank you everyone!!!
First to LinaJ: Amber Benson is a great actress, writer, producer and director. She is mostly known as "Tara" from seasons 4-6 from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has co-written several books with Christopher Golden. The last one is the second book of the Ghosts of Albion, Witchery. It just came out in the USA and I am loning for the mailman to bring me my copy! The first book was Accursed. And before that they wrote Astray and Initiation, two novels about the Ghosts of Albion.
Ok you guys and galls, I had the BEST weekend ever!!! On Friday we met with Elisabeth Rohm, she is known from Angel and Law & Order.
She was soooo nice to Joyce and me. We had some great laughs before she was going back to her hotel in the eveing.
On Saturday we found out that Amber WOULD be there that afternoon already! We were sooo happy because the last reports told us that she'd only be there on Sunday... So I was all excited. People that know me well, know I have a Hyper-Hyper mode function haha! And I was sooo in that mode. We got our queue tckets for Amber and Juliete Landau (she played Drusilla in Buffy, Spike's girlfriend in the first couple of seasons). Mark Lutz (known from Angel as Gru, haha, don't ask! haha) did not have a queue line. Joyce and me got back to the hotel to grab the stuff we wanted signed by Amber. We changed our clothes and got back. First we went in line for Mark Lutz. Because our numbers for Amber and Juliete were not even close... Mark was very nice to us and he made us laugh.
When waiting in line for Mark, we already saw Amber who was sitting next to him. I was like: wow there she is! For those of you who do not know me well, I am a huuuge Amberholic. That is a term made up by Amber for her fans and we use it with pride. I had never met her before, so I was very very nervous... But I was just chatting with Mark and it was so nice...
Then we went back to Elisabeth who was very pleased to see us again. Since on Friday, she came back in her private time for a picture with her, me and Joyce, we brought her some nice Halloween chocolates. She was very happy with them... At the end of the day we found out that she forgot them, but Juliete Landau's Personal Assistant (PA) promised to give them to Elisabeth for us.
Then Rianne (another friend of mine) wanted to go to Maggie Grace (I believe) from Lost. So we got in line for her. And then we just had to wait before we were allowed in Amber's line. We met up an old friend from Denmark who had an extra Amber ticket.. And gave it to me
So I could go to Amber a bit sooner! Woohooo!
I had a wonderful piece of art with me. A drawing of Amber and Alyson (Hannigan, "Tara's" girlfriend in Buffy, "Willow"), made by Swantje
Aaaaand I got a book for Amber that many of you will recognise: PS. I love you by Cecelia Ahern.
First we said Hi to Amber and she asked us where we were from. We told her we were from The Netherlands. She said she could sense it haha... First I got Amber to sign a pic for Steve (DazedOblivion) and Swantje (SingleTunePoet), since they are fans as well
Then I told her, that her mum emailed me, that I should let her know I was THE Cynthia from the Netherlands. She immediately knew me haha!
Aaaaaahhhhh.....
And when I told her I got her a present, that I once got from a dear friend (that'd be Swantje) and I was hoping she would love as well, I got 2 kisses!!! Once on each cheeck... Man, I was flying! Haha...
Here she is reading the back cover:
And she just read that Gerry will die......
Signing Swantje's Xmas prezzie for me
Just click on the pic for the vid of the whole meeting with Amber...
Needless to say it was a great first meeting. And half an hour later, I was back! haha.....
She was happy to see us again haha... She was just so sweet to us all....
And after that we got in line for Juliete Landau. WOW man, she has a great sense of humor! We even got her stiff bodyguard to laugh! haha.... I got Joyce a t-shirt a while ago with the text: "Damn right I'm good in bed! I can sleep all day" and I have a t-shirt with a lil' devil saying: "God's busy, can I help you?". Juliete read Joyce her t-shirt and said she liked it, Joyce pointed at me and told Juliete it was a gift from me. Juliete then read my shirt and said "I like your taste in t-shirts".
And with all us Dutchies:
Yvonne, Rianne, Me, *Juliete* and Joyce....
Meeting Amber again on Sunday... "There baaaaack....." haha....
Don't ask me what I am looking at haha!
And again, we went to see Amber after getting our luggage from the hotel. Amber said that I was naughty, so I asked her to sing something naughty on the last pic....
She did haha, and loved to write it, because she had the BIGGEST grin ever haha....
Last grouppic with Amber:
Then we went back to Elisabeth and Mark. We asked Elisabeth if she did get those chocolates from the PA... She said she never got them.... Soooo Rianne and me ditched Joyce with the luggage, she needed to rest with her back anyway, and went back to the store! Haha...
After shopping, we first went in line for Maggie again because Rianne wanted another signed pic, this time for herself.
Sooo we came back and first brought some chocolate and a prezzie to Mark. Then we went back to Elisabeth who was sitting next to him, with her mother on her left.
See, you'd never guess to those reactions that they are family huh? Haha....
After this, we had to get to the bus, our weekend was over...
BUUUUT I almost forgot, we went to a bar in Friday evening and I go myself some pints of Extra Cold Guinness.... THAT TASTES SOOO GOOD
haha....
I am sure I am boring you all now haha... Me and my Buffy talk
So this was the short "Cynni went to the convention" story... Hope you all enjoyed it....
Signing off,
Cynni -xxx-