Orlando Convention May 28 & 29, 1999 (Delta Resort Hotel)
To
start everything off, there was supposed to be early registration for the tickets
on Friday. But some security Guard locked the doors and Creation couldn't get
in. So the few xenites that showed up for registration helped set everything
up when Creation finally got in. We spent about 3 hours just folding shirts
(and there were some nice shirts). On Saturday is when the fun began, doors
opened at 12pm. I got in and got the Ares shirt I was always drooling over and
got $35 dollars worth of pictures (I shall scan them to my website when I get
back home). I stood in line for about an hour just for the pictures, at 1:30
they played a music video called "Sisters", Unfortuently I was still
inline for pictures at the time.
When
I got done it was close to 1:50, I got at the end of the making of Bitter Suite.
Next up was the musical salute to Hercules, and Xena/Herc trivia. After the
trivia was a salute to Gabrielle with the song "The wind beneathe my wings"
by Bette Midle, and then the bloopers from Hercules; which the funny ones were
the ones done by Michael Hurst. And then the part everyone was waiting for,
the beautiful Danielle Cormick.
When she came on stage, she told us how tired she was and asked if we would all sing her a lullaby (Rock-a-by-baby). We started singing it and she acted as she was going to fall asleep on the floor. Then a girl came up and said that she absolutely adores Ephiny and se was mad that they killed her off. Another lady said she was going to kill the writers for doing it. One guy asked if she knew how they got word to Xenain (excuse me if I got it wrong, couldn't remember how to spell it). Then it was my turn, I held up my arm and she said the one with the Jone Jett imitation bracelets (my bracelets were $5 a piece junk). So I asked her what she thought about wearing the amazon costume, she said it depended on what season and what she was doing since she does her own stunts (I am a little skeptical on that one, since she laughed about it when she said it). Then was Intermission.
When we came back, we had
a musical tribute to Callisto, using the song "She is a maniac on the floor".
After the tribute we had the auction (I will get the details of what was bought
and how much if possible, forgot to right them down; but I did get pictures
of most of the stuff being auctioned). Then we had the bloopers from Xena, they
were a lot better than the ones from Hercules. Then we had the musical tribute
to Ares using the song "Bad to the Bone", the funny thing was that
when I was standing inline to get pictures of Kevin when he came on stage, I
was right near a door that he came out of and right in front of me to get backstage.
When Kevin came out, everybody was surprised beacuse we all heard rumors that
he cut his hair, but he also was clean shaven. The audience tried to get him
to sing the song from "The Prize" from Young Hercules, but he said
he couldn't remember. Everybody was clapping emencely when some one got him
to say the line from Bitter Suite, "Nothing need more be said......Ding
Dong..The Bitch is dead". Then it was my turn to ask the questions
(Muuuuhhhhhaaaaaa), I asked him two questions:
The problem was he said
it has been 2 years and didn't remember the lines, I said if you give me a few
seconds I will run out to my truck and get the CD cover and get the words for
you. Noone believed that I would do it, not even Kevin. I proved them wrong,
I went out to the truck got the cover and ran back, I gave the cover to him
opened to the words. I said to him sorry sir, but I don't joke easily. All the
girls were extatic that I actually went and did it, he read the lines and said
it perfectly. My heart didn't stop beating very fast for about 40 minutes afterwards.
I have never been that brave nor that stupid to do something like that before.
After awhile of Q &
A, we then had the signatures and they brought Danielle back out. They did row
by row, and I was in row J and had to wait for about 30 minutes to get up for
signatures. It took them about 2 hours to get all the signatures done before
they could do the part were they would stand together for people to get pictures.
The guy from Creation said during the signing, that same time in the years to
follow they will be back in Orlando (so everyone start saving your money).