Our first Gallifrey One is over and we had a magnificent time! I'm going to be recapping the entire weekend over the next few days as I sort through the pictures and videos. So please enjoy!
Thursday was pure excitement as Gally started to get under way. There were already hundreds of guests at the hotel and many were in their costumes. I think the highlight of the day for Jess was riding on the shuttle with Richard Franklin. Mine was discovering the wonderful, crazy, awesome world of cosplay and learning about badge ribbons. For those not in the know, badge ribbons are small ribbons the length of convention badges on which people print pithy, amusing, silly, funny, weird, random statements related to fandom. These ribbons are then passed out and traded throughout the convention. I think my favorite was actually a set of 5 ribbons. Four had the word thing and the last had a picture of a lizard. The Doctor, "Yeah, listen, listen, got to dash... things happening. Well... four things. Well... four things and a lizard." (Blink) Love it!!
Our roommates arrived later in the evening with a simply mental travel story. They wanted to fly standby but couldn't get on a flight so they bought tickets for a flight out on Thursday morning. They missed the plane because of an unfinished cosplay outfit and had to fly in to Palm Springs. From there they got on a combination of buses, trains and shuttles to make it to Gallifrey. It was like a convention version of Planes, Trains and Automobiles!
Some fun pictures of the first nights cosplay below and of the ribbons we gathered. Tomorrow I'll look in depth at the start of the official convention when the madness truly began.
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| Femme 11 from The Lodger |
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| 11 playing football with the cutest 6th Doctor |
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| Two awesome River Songs! |
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| Gally Ribbons |
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| Captain Jack Harkness! |
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