Hi everyone, so this is a continuation of
yesterdays post, all about my first time experience of going to Walker Stalker
London. Yesterday I talked all about
what happened on the first day and my amazing experience of meeting Norman
Reedus and several others from the Walking Dead cast, and you can go and read
that here, if you haven't already. As you may also remember from yesterday's
post, I mentioned that instead of adding all my photos from the con in the post
(because it'll be way too pic-heavy), I have added the majority of them in with
the mini vlogs that I filmed while I was there and I've uploaded that short
video on my YouTube channel, which you can find here :-)
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So to continue with my adventure, Sunday morning
was another early start. We got up about
7ish, had to re-pack all our stuff and finally after breakfast we made our way
back to the Olympia, thankfully this time we didn't have to queue to get inside
(as it was really pouring down) but I did end up having to queue for a
ridiculous amount of time inside just for the cloakroom! After that I was on a mission to go and meet
Lauren Cohan, that was my main aim of the day.
I knew I wouldn't have had time to fit it in the day before so I was
really looking forward to it and I wanted to get that done first of all. I went up to the gallery and saw the
volunteer by the huge queue and she told me to come back about an hour
later. So off I went to explore again,
I'd pretty much seen all the stalls from the day before, but there were a few I
hadn't seen upstairs, including this one by a lovely lady called Sarah, she
does the most incredible drawings as you can see from these photos, I
absolutely love them and they are so, so good, very talented lady!
Anyway, finally it was time to go back to the
queue and after about 10 minutes of waiting for Lauren to come back from her
break, I was whizzed off by the volunteer to the front of the queue, I felt
like a vip :-) I picked a nice photo and
paid (a shocking amount of money) to the lady and then I got to meet
Lauren. As with everyone I met over the
weekend, she was really lovely. She took
her time with me, she was chatty and friendly.
I asked if she was having a good weekend and she said she really was and
I also got chance to tell her how much I like Maggie and I love how strong she
is and such an inspiration, and that I think she plays the character amazingly
well, they all do. Finally she signed my
photo and, shook my hand and off I went happy.
Sadly she wasn't doing selfies, which I would've loved but I'm just so
happy that I got to meet her :-)
It was getting on for half 12 by the time I
finished there, so I went off to find my friends and chill for a while before
my next big excitement, my photo op with Norman :-D ♥
The next couple of hours seems to last double
the length of time, but it finally got to 2.20pm. I went off to the photo ops area and started
to queue but the staff then told us that Norman had spent so much extra time
seeing people and doing autos (bless!) that he was once again running
late. I don't think I ended up getting
my photo for about another hour after that, but of course it was well worth the
wait :-) I knew right from the start
going back months ago what I wanted for my 'photo pose' and I am so glad I
stuck with it. I got in line and watched
the few people in front of my have their photo with him. I was prepared for how quick it was going to
be and yes it was only a matter of seconds (about 20-30) but in other ways I
felt like it all happened in slow motion!
I went up to him and just said can you just put your arms round me, and
he well and truly obliged :-D I am so,
so, so happy with how the photo turned out.
I stood there with his arms round me, holding on, he felt so lovely
(oooh happy tears again lol) and I smiled so much because I felt so happy in
that moment. And then it was all done, I
thanked him, grabbed my bag off the table and went to collect my photo from the
print queue.
And here it is, I love it so much. My bff Florance said she hasn't seen me that
happy in a long time and I honestly think she's right, meeting him over that
weekend was an absolute dream come true!
I have already put it in a nice white and silver frame and it's due to
go up in my room asap!
Later that day, after spending a good long time
with my friends, making even more new friends, chatting to loads of people and
photographing loads of thangs ;-) Myself
and Kat went off to meet Tom Payne, who I got a selfie with, he was nice and
looking at this photo, our hair is about the same length lol! The volunteer was took this photo for me,
while Kat was taking one of her phone so I was looking in her direction, but
this was a nice pic anyway.
So that was pretty much it, to round off the
day, my friend had some more photo ops and by half past 4 we were about ready
to drop, so it was back off to the hotel to collect all out bags and head off
to the station.
Several goodbyes later, I headed off to my
connecting train station and met back up with my travel buddies from Friday
morning and then we were on our way home!
I didn't actually buy much while I was at the
convention, apart from a small keyring and this amazing Tshirt which I love to
bits, I can't wait to wear it in the summer :-)
I mostly spend my money on autos and selfies because I wanted to make
the most of meeting certain members of the cast rather than just buying stuff
that I could get any time. But that's
just how I decided to do things. Over
all, yes it all cost a lot of money, maybe slightly more than I had anticipated
but I did come home with a good bit, so I didn't spend all my savings! But the entire experience of being there, meeting
the cast and all the amazing people I've chatted to and wonderful friends that
I've made through going to the con, has been priceless! And I absolutely cannot wait to go again next
year :-D
I hope you liked this (rather
long) 2-day post. I would love to hear
your stories and experiences from any conventions you've been to, people you've
met or ones that you plan to go to! Did
you dress up for it? I wasn't brave
enough for that this time.
Also if you go and watch the
video that accompanies this post to see all the main photos I took of the
stalls etc, please let me know in the comments if you liked it and if you found
it through this post. Or if you found
this post through watching my video first, hi welcome to my blog and I hope you
like it :-) Until Next Time Stay Happy ♥
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