A Day Spent in Stratford 230907

This day was epic. We got out of Toronto well enough, actually happy about the GPS even told me "please move one lane to your left" when needed. At Stratford though the GPS took us downtown, but we came to the Forum about 10 minutes before it was set to start.

After the forum where Seana McKenna and Paul Gross spoke about playing King Lear we had picniclunch that Susan had helped us order. And now it was time to head down to the big theatre, well not so big in real life but the main stage. Susan's husband John took photos of us in the garden where we wore our read "Oh Dear, King Lear" t-shirts.

After the brilliant performance of King Lear(if you're in Stratford, Canada in the nearest time go see it) we had an "audience with the King" kindly arranged by Faye and Heather(at the theatre). In other words Paul Gross had agreed to meet us. He was nice, warm and generous with his time and truly moved by us all in our t-shirts and with our giftbasket for him.

We did managed to get another photo of us all outside the theatre where there were lots of beautifl flowers. Before we left Stratford we gathered on a small island in the river and had pizza for dinner. It was a long day but oh are we happy we did this!

TYK A.k, Dani, Ines, Regina, Faye, Susan and husband, Claire and daughter, Sonja, two more duesers f´from Chicago for soending the time together.

Friday July 26th - First day of convention

A day to remember always. Today we had the opening of the convention. As usual we were met with a lot of cool posters, different things to get us mingeling and making new dueser friends(card trading, bingo and a mysterygame). There were posters for us to sign for all our guests coming along during the weekend.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Our first guest was well longed for, Stephane our "head-chair" said that it only happens when the Wanamakers come from the states to a convention and last time it happened was in 2010, Paul Gross came to visit us! Now we didn't get to have any personal photos or autographs from him though but he was telling us stories about what had happened on and around Due South back in the days. Sitting on the side of the room maybe wasn't the best for photos but I got some. 

  

  

Paul was also the first one getting the offical gift from the committé, a hand made, hand painted cabin.

We headed down for some late lunch at Loblaws and hadn't it been for Erin showing this on her Facebook before I would never have seen it. The Maple Leaf for the hockeyteam made out of chairs, probably leftover old ones as this is inside the old hockey arena.

Some reaccuring things on our conventions is the cinema, or episode viewing. This time we had it through encore+(that's on youtube) and they even sponsored us with popcorn(white cheddar taste). Also Jeopardy, the team didn't win but we had fun and if we had lost on the final question we would at least been left with 139 points.

In the evening Stephane told us about living in Labrador, and what beautiful pictures we got to see.