Comic Con Weekend

Last weekend was a busy one! Theresa came to visit (which is always awesome) and one of my best friends from college came up from Florida for a visit as well! Thursday evening we got to visit with Aaron and his girlfriend for a little while, which was fun because we had never met Angie. Plus, Brent (another friend from college) was there as well. Good times!

Friday night Theresa came into town and she and I got to have a few hours of girl time without Shawn :) Then came Saturday...the really busy day! We got up early to head to the Chicago Comic Con with Shawn. He has been looking forward to this for quite some time and we all had a good time. We got to see some stars and Shawn got a bunch of comics and comic info. Here are a few of the stars we saw...

Actor Ray Parks - played "Toad" in X-Men, "Darth Maul" in Star Wars:Episode I, and someone in the new GI Joe movie.

Edward James Olmos - long time actor

Alex Meraz - playing "Paul" in Twilight: New Moon coming out in November.

There were also a few other "stars" we got our pictures with!

There was Q&A panel with three of the stars of the new Twilight movie: New Moon. The guys who is going to play Paul, one of the wolves, was pretty cool as was the actor who will be playing Marcus, one of the Volturi. However...the kid that is going to play Alec (another Volturi) was a total tool! He is definitely a teenage boy! He sounded like a total idiot on the panel! He doesn't even seem to like the movies...and he didn't even pretend! What a way to plug your new movie! He admited he's never read the books and has no intention of doing so. Bottom line...he was an idiot! It didn't help either that the audience of the Q&A was a bunch of young girls who were asking ridiculous questions...oh well! The Marvel panel was pretty lame too, but the DC panel was actually really intersting...even for me and Theresa! The guy who was leading it was really funny!! The Comic Con wasn't very organzied this year (according to Shawn it was much better last year) but we still had fun.

Afterward, we headed out to Elgin where my friends Brent & Soriya were having a house warming party for their new house. The house is beautiful and I got to see a bunch of my friends from IU. We had a great time! Brent & Soriya had the new Wii Sports Resort game...AWESOME! Theresa and I are awesome at the canoe game (haha!). Amanda and Todd were there for a little bit with their son Max, which was great because I haven't seen either of them in YEARS! Aaron and Angie had driven up to Kenosha earlier in the day to pick up their new puppy...she's so cute! Here are some pictures of the puppy.

Sunday we drove out to South Bend for Theresa's brother's HS graduation party. He'll be going to Ball State soon so they wanted to make sure get the grad party in before he actually started college! There was good food and it was nice to get to see some BSU friends, Molly & Courtney! Always a good time talking with those ladies! Overall, we had a great weekend!