Calgary Expo 2013

Saturday was our annual geekfest at the Calgary Expo!

The girls (especially Cara) have been so excited for this.  They both had a slight cold but Friday Gwen's got worse.  By Friday night her eyes were all gooey and she was not happy (Jamie was a great babysitter for her while Mommy & Daddy started the geek weekend with a Weird Al Concert!)

Saturday morning Gwen was up at 6am happy but gooey so we started with a trip to the walk-in clinic and got some antibiotics and eye drops.  She really was in good spirits and we knew she'd like the Expo so off we all went to ride the train to the convention!

Mommy made the girls custom hair clips of their favourite characters.  Gwen's favs are Spiderman and Hulk (but we made Hulk pretty!)

Cara with pass pinned on her Darth Vader shirt!

Gwen fell asleep during the trip on the trains and had a great nap in the stroller.

When we walked in Cara spotted Darth Vader right away!  He loved her shirt!

Then she spotted Captain America - another of her favs!

This robot guy was cool - he played dance music like a walking stereo!

Daddy and Cara with the woman who played the T-X in Terminator 3 (the blonde sitting at the table).

On the left behind the pole is a blurry bit of the guy who played the T-1000 (Robert Patrick).

Lots of cool celebs at the Expo this year but we spent most of our time looking at the neat costumes and artist's work.

Cara's custom hair clips - Darth Vader and the other one is R2D2 (but not a good view).

We saw The Delorean from Back to the Future!

And some Ghostbusters!

There was a very cool display of Star Wars things made from Lego.

This is just part of the huge Ewok Forest set up that had moving parts and flying ships.

More Star Wars Lego.

Gwen is a huge My Little Pony fan and there was a hat booth that had Pony hats!  Gwen didn't want to try one on so Cara tried on a Rainbow Dash hat for Gwen to see :)

Gwen was excited to see Spiderman!

Even though she doesn't look it she really was happy :)

Not every day you see a R2D2 walking around on 2 legs!

There was a big Lord Of The Rings booth that had really neat stuff from the movies.

More from the Lord of the Rings booth.

"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses." -Gollum

Some of the costumes people were wearing were so cool - this is a Marine from Warhammer.

Mommy had a staring contest with Smeagol.

Bane and Doctor Manhattan in a deep discussion about right and wrong.

Cara with our DVD of Nightmare Before Christmas signed by the voice of Jack Skellington...

Chris Sarandon!  He is also in a bunch of movies like the Princess Bride.  He was really nice and we all  thought it was neat to meet the voice of Jack. 

This is a Stilt Spirit.

Kinda creepy.

Gwen met Optimus Prime!

We saw a troop of Vikings!

Galactus and Silver Surfer.

Right before we left Cara finally saw Iron Man - one of her most favourites!  So we got a pic of him too!

The girls got some comic books of Spiderman and Iron Man and Daddy started reading them on the bus ride home.

Everyone had sore feet from the long day at the Expo!

We had a great time at our 4th Calgary Expo! The girls were so good and had so much fun (even sick Gwen loved it)!