7 Month Rewind part Two

    

1) In April we splurged and got annual passes to Disneyland. We have since gone 14 times.

2) I told him to smile. Obviously not a fan of getting his picture taken

    

3) We visited the San Diego Temple. Talked to a missionary, who didn't believe I'm Mormon. This happens a lot more than I'd like. "Yes, yes I am. I was baptized two years ago." "Oh, wow."

4) Yet another beautiful view.

    

5 - 6) We spent a questionable amount of time in Target, playing with toys and finding the most ridiculous sunglasses.

    

7-8) Our first glimpse of Cars Land, and we were like kids again.

    

9) We were watching a Seagull trying to eat a fish twice as big as it's head.. he was way more amused than I was.

10) Sometimes he doesn't groan about taking a picture with me

    

    

11-14) We shared the experience of Comic Con, which is a memory I'll never forget. A ton of free stuff was thrown our way (including those books, one being an advanced copy!) We also got to meet the lead singer of our favorite band (who also has comics), waited in lines for hours, and got shuffled around by thousands of people. Those were the best two days of my year, and I'm lucky enough to get to do it again next year.

    

15-16) We spent even more time at Disneyland. We went about once every two weeks, sometimes more.

    

17) Ryan's mom and brother came down to surprise him, we went to Charger's Fan Fest

18) and ate a delicious lunch at Hodad's

    

19) We fell in a love with a little Jack Russel, and wanted to buy her.

20) TURTLE.

21) La Jolla.

Comic-Con 2012

I don't know if I mentioned it before on my blog, but this year I got the chance to go to Comic Con for two days... guys.

Guys, guys, guys.

It was awesome.

It was crowded up the butt:

And my calves hurt from having to shuffle everywhere and not being able to take complete steps, but it was so awesome.

We have two 'swag bags' (I loathe the word swag) full of free goodies from all the different booths. Mind you, these bags are more than half my height and three times as wide as me.

We met some truly amazing people, and some weirdos. And some Shreks.

We got a chance to meet Claudio Sanchez (of Coheed and Cambria, also writes comics, just announced that he has a movie in the works!) And he was super nice. Only Ryan got a picture with him, but that's ok.

We also met Giorgio Tsoukalis. THIS GUY:

Yes, now you know who I'm talking about. Guys, he looks like a total toolbag in person. He was wearing a scarf and bracelets. But he was soooo nice.

Ryan got to meet a couple of artists whose work he admires, Dustin Nguyen and Christopher Shy. They were both also SUPER nice.

And we got to meet the creators of the Mr Toast comics. The artist drew us little caricatures, and once again.. he was just SO nice.

We completely failed at getting into the Bones and Vampire Diaries panels, which are the ones I wanted to see. We then failed to get tickets for the Bones, Vampire Diaries and Hunger Games autograph signing sessions. Then we failed to get into the panels that Ryan wanted. But we're okay with it, and took it all as a learning experience for next year. Because yes.. we ARE going next year.

To make up for missing the panels, we got in line to get autographs from Marie Lu (author of Legend). What we didn't know, is that she was giving away free copies of her book, and the first bunch of us got a free advanced uncorrected version of the sequel, Prodigy, set to come out in January 2013!

We got to see the original sets used for the filming of Frankenweenie (which is a stop motion film.) 

Also the new Iron Man suit, all of the Batmobiles, and so much other fun stuff.

Oh, and I got my picture taken with Russell from UP! You're jealous, of course.



And now, I'm sitting here writing about it, trying not to feel too depressed that it's over.
But it's not working. Cuz I'm wallowing in a pool of self-pity and counting down the days til next year's Con.