Superman Festival! : -)

I'm still trying to recuperate from Saturday. Don't get me wrong, it was amazing to go to Metropolis and see all the Superman memorabilia (not to mention the famous people that were there) it's just that we were exhausted when we got back home.

Fri. night Jamey was looking around for things to get signed at the Festival and knocked a yearbook of his from '91 out of the closet. I picked it up and found him in it, then got mine from '91 and put them side by side. He was in 9th grade and I was in Kindergarten. He looked at them and thought we both looked cute. He took another look when I told him "No, they're from the same year." He was slightly disturbed by the fact he was in high school when I was just starting school.

Saturday Jamey and I got up at the crack of dawn, which to me means 9 am. We got up at 6 am, and were on the road half an hour later! I didn't know I could get ready that quickly that early in the morning! One side note, I guess I really was the only chipper McD's worker when I went in at 6. Goodness, can I get any good service that early in the morning without having to do it myself? And apparently the workers have a hard time with comprehension that early. Can you say "Can I get more cream for my coffee" and in ANY way hear "I want more sugar?" Not only did she not give me more cream, she argued with me about it! Hmm... I don't want to sound mean, but I have been in that position and I never was that rude. People! Ugh!

After that lovely stop, we drove for about 3 hours before we made it to the Festival. I stopped counting the Superman costumed people and people dressed like other Superheros. It was fun, but if you got in trouble you would be trampled by all the Supermen trying to help. :~) The first stop we made in Metropolis was to see and get the autograph of Noel Neill, the Lois Lane in the 1950's Superman series. She was the sweetest lady. I tried not to hug her too tight cause I was afraid that she would brake. Then it was on to get autographs from the artist who drew the pictures for the comic books. Is it me or is it rude to stand there and talk and have the artist draw something for you when there are quite a few people in line behind you? No, it's rude. Don't even get me started on the lines... We waited in line for an hour and a half to get autographs! However, you meet some nice people in line. There was a nice older couple on their way to NY, and a young man that was a slight Superman fanatic. Talking to them made the time go by faster.

They had a Q&A session. That was quite informative... They had Noel Neill, Helen Slater (Supergirl) and Jerry Maren on the panel for that. I didn't know who exactly Jerry Maren was until they mentioned Wizard of Oz. Yes, I was in the presence of a Munchkin! He was the green suited Munchkin in the Lollipop guild that handed Dorothy the lollipop! WOW! He also played a mole man from Superman and the Mole Man. Course knowing that didn't have nearly the same effect that knowing he was a Munchkin did.

The Superman museum was something else. They had almost the entire set from the 50's series newspaper room! Not to mention a ton of Superman costumes from the movies and TV series, also numerous Superman toys from different eras.


We had a really good time. On our way home we stopped and ate supper with Jamey's parents.

Sunday we just went to church and napped the entire day! :~) So, we had ourselves a good weekend.






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