Convention part 3 (2)

(cont...........)  We decided to get some burgers from the burger bar.  They are disgusting but it’s one of those things that just have to be done.  Whilst we were waiting the legend that is Keith Harris came and stood near us so we all started talking to him about the fan club and whether this would be the last convention or not?!!  After the burgers Jamie and I watched Dan and Gavin play air hockey, whilst the little girl (I think her name was Sam too), came up and had a go against Dan lol……….I was getting bored so Trina decided now was the time to go and find Jamie Moses.  I had suggested to her that we find him at some point as he had mentioned Paul and Brian during those stories earlier but not Roger - I wanted to hear a roger story :-)  We went to the bar only to see him leaving that area and wander off down the corridor.  Who should we meet down there but Wendy, Marianne, Charlie, and Helena who all seemed to be rather merry.  So we waited for him to emerge from wherever he had gone with the girls.  At one point Vern came out of the gents and I asked him if Jamie had gone in there lol.........  Apparently he had not!!

He did appear at some point and was accosted by the aforementioned people as they all wanted pics and stuff.  Eventually though my chance came and I asked him for a story.........this is what he told me............

Usually Brian, Roger and Paul would stay in a different hotel to the other lads, but in Los Angeles (I think he said) Roger stayed in the same hotel as them.  His reason was because he could see his house from the bedroom window!!  ??

We stayed in the corridor chatting to the girls and watched Jamie play the grabbing teddy machine, which is when the stupid ness kicked in!!  Someone came up with the idea that it would be funny if we grabbed Jamie into the photo booth that was opposite the machine and all get in there with him.  Unfortunately this did not happen as it was actually one of those drawing ones.  Instead we decided to take pics with the Roger from DSR and do the 'international sign for roger fans' behind him lol......I can't go into what that sign meant on my journal - this is a family place!!  ;-)  So we took the pic and more hilarity ensued!!  Someone came up with the idea of going up to a security guard and saying 'Excuse me I've lost my mate, he's about so high and wearing a Queen t-shirt have you seen him?' LOL.........Of course we couldn't ask half the security that we found coz they knew us and wouldn't fall for it.  So someone suggested we ask drunken people, coz they'd fall for it.  So we went to the bar area to find said drunk people but couldn't find anyone.  Instead we found Sarah chatting to Jamie (about what we're not sure but apparently his answers where either I don't know or no!!)  Trina started having a word with Jacky about the shirt and then found Val and had an hour long conversation with her :-(  Whilst I was waiting a woman was looking at me and finally said 'are you Jenny?'  I was like 'yeah' she said 'I have to say hello to you from Inge' I was shocked!!

When I became a fan and joined the fan club my name and address went into the fanzine asking for dedicated roger fans to write to me.  At one point I had over 40 pen pals.  Those were the days I didn't have the web.  lol.........Now I have the web I've lost touch with quite a lot of them and Inge was one of my faves!!  One year she brought her mum to the convention and they were both so lovely and tall the photo of me both looks quite amusing!!  I shall dig it out to show you at some point!!

Anyway back to topic!!  I couldn't believe it apparently she had gone the year before and of course I wasn't there :-(  Neither of us had any pen and paper and Inge has moved and so have I but it's so nice to hear she still thinks of me :-) bless her!!  So I told the lady to go back to Belgium and give Inge big hugs from me!! 

When I turned round Trina had disappeared so I started to try and find her.  By this point the tribute band had finished so everyone was coming off the dance floor and making their way towards the bar.  I decided to have a look outside and in the loos.  Nope she wasn’t outside.  Just before I went into the loos I was asked by Richard to see if Sarah was in there as she was wearing his flag.  I found Sarah in there and asked if Trina was with her.  She shouted for Trina but no response came and she said ‘no’.  Left her and Jamie and went to see if she had gone back to the bar or the dance floor, no such luck!!  I did manage to find Wendy and Amy though.  Asked them if they’d seen her but unfortunately not, so I decided to go and look again.  Still not having any luck I went back to the dance floor and stayed with Wendy and Amy, thinking that if I’m stood still she’d be able to find me!!

At some point Wendy suggested we stand on the steps and look over the bar area to see if we can find anyone but unfortunately we couldn’t.  I did however ask the bloke who came to stand below us if had seen my friend, she’s wearing a Queen t-shirt.  LOL……..  He looked around and said ‘no’.  Just after that Trina and Funster walked along by the stairs so I managed to shout for her.  I told them what I’d said to that man and they laughed.

The disco followed and they played many a good track, even showed the video when they played Breakthru’, which was a bonus until it broke down!!  Grrrrr…….  I don’t think they showed the ‘smile’ version either but at least it was the video ;-)  Afterwards we decided to have the party back at our chalet as people were asleep in the others.  Sam brought out her video camera and Andy (vivid) brought his DVD player in and started playing Super live in Japan (they hadn’t finished showing it earlier as they had run out of time!!)  Sam’s friends brought their tea with them and bacon and pizza’s were cooked for those of us who were hungry.  I had a burnt bacon sarnie lol…….  Sarah was gone she was on the sofa covered in the duvet.  Gavin had a laugh by placing empty bottles and beer cans around her and taking a picture of it.  Every now and then though she would wake and shout Roger or bahhhhh……….  It was quite amusing!!  Outside the weather had taken a turn for the worst and the rain had started to come. :-(  I got a bit annoyed at one point and had a stonking headache and went to bed.  Not long after Trina and the gang tried to get everyone to leave as Jamie wanted to go to bed.  It didn’t take them too long to get everyone out.  It was sad that this was our last night but like all good things it has to come to an end sometime.

Day 4
We didn’t have to leave till about 10.30am (I think!!) we thought we could have a lie in till about 9ish.  Unfortunately the last of our electric ran out in the early hours of the morning so we couldn’t have a cup of tea or anything like that :-(  We actually got woken up by voices again, this time it was Funster being called by her work colleagues.  She works for radio and she was talking live on the radio from her bed at the convention – how cool is that?  I went and sat on Funsters bed talking to Sam whilst Trina started tidying up.  Funster needed a shower as she had a job interview that day, so went over to Charlie’s chalet.  Nobody had any spare electric for us to have a cup of tea :-(  Eventually we all managed to pack our stuff away and get the chalet in some kind off nice condition.  The first to leave was Jamie as she was having a lift with Julie and Vern.  The rest of us put our bags into the car and went to the restaurant for some brekkie and a cuppa :-) at last lol………..The weather had definitely turned for the worst and we had rain showers all the way home.  It was a quiet journey home with everyone falling asleep and listening to Dan’s choice of music (non-Queen!)  When we got back to Bristol we spent about an hour at Sarah and Dan’s before we caught the train home.  Trina and I had warm waffles with chocolate sauce on them on the way back just to round the trip off nicely.

So after all that are you ready for the photos?